Posted by Steve Guidry on 01/11/59 11:48

OK. Look - - there's a bigger business question here than just image
quality : Where is the price/quality demand coming from ? From you or
from the customer ?

If you're trying to sell the customer on the fact that you can deliver a
"35mm quality" spot for only $2000, than you need to quit lying to the
customer. You're not going to get there, and you _will_ be found out.

If the customer is pressing you for that kind of quality on that budget,
then _you_ need to run. At the worst, he's setting you up to fail and
then not pay you. At the best, he's one of those greedy skinflint
nitpickers that can't be satisfied at any price. He's always going to pick
apart your work and you'll wind up re-doing it a half-dozen times and in the
end (_IF_ you do get paid) you'll have spent soooo many hours on it you'd
be better off working somewhere where you ask, "You want fries with that?"

There is a reason that real quality costs money. And neither you nor those
lying sales reps from the video equipment makers has changed that yet.


Steve





"Toby" <kymarto123@ybb.ne.jpp> wrote in message
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>
> "Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
> news:e4vell$tsu$1@news01.intel.com...
> > "jho" wrote ...
> >> I'm making a 30 sec. commercial and want to achieve a high quality
> >> commercial with a limited budget ($2000). Does anyone know if DVCPRO50
> >> comes anywhere near 35mm or another format that is inexpensive and high
> >> quality?
> >
> > No NTSC (or PAL) television format recorded by ANY method
> > comes anywhere near close to the native resolution of 35mm film.
> > NTSC, for example, uses 345600 pixels (720x480) whereas 35mm
> > film is regularly scanned at "2K" (2048 x 1556) or "4K" (4096 x 3112)
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_resolution
> >
> > OTOH, don't see how you could shoot either 35mm or DVCpro50
> > on a $2K budget.
>
> Richard, how about using a prosumer HDV, such as the Sony Z1 in HD mode?
> I've only ever shot with it in SD mode, but I've heard good things about
its
> HDV capabilities, apart from motion artifacts in MPEG2. Still no match for
> 35, but probably higher resolution than any SD format. Anybody out there
> used HDV?
>
> Toby
>
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