Posted by doc on 06/01/06 19:54

this is great! i recently worked with a client as a sub contractor who had
a $100,000 Sony HD 24p camera on this major shoot for them (rented cam by
the way) and i just happened to have my dvx100b there and with a pro tripod
just followed along the shoot as they did only some of it behind the scenes
instead, but still i did get some of the footage as did they. in addition,
because of the size of my cam, i shot some handheld with a low angle using
the handle and was looking for some neat angle effects. when they sat down
to edit, their video was all pixelated and messed up, apparently some issue
with tracking to which they were refunded their rental when the camera was
found to be out of alignment. so, he just happened to think about my being
there and collected my footage and compared it to their former work from two
weeks earlier and guess what, my images were nearly as good as theirs (said
he) and my camera was less than his rental :o) so much for HD and
expensive cameras

drd

"David McCall" <david.mccall@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
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>>> "Rick Merrill" wrote ...
>>> > And you can't make bacon out of a silk purse! The amount of quality
>>> > that
>>> > is useful over NTSC is highly limited by the transmission and TV
>>> > characteristics regardless of their precision (a.k.a. quality). So
>>> > while
>>> > you may be right that 25Mbps is > say 9Mbps, if the user is going to
>>> > put
>>> > it on an NTSC TV it will make no difference.
>>>
>>> You have apparently never seen a pristine NTSC image from
>>> high end equipment back in the originating studio. My condolences.
>>>
>> I never thought I'd ever see pristine and NTSC in the same sentence...
>> Hey,
>> Richard you truly are king of the oxymoron.
>>
> What Richard says is true, at least for us older guys.
> I am assuming that you are talking about composite.
>
> Really good video form a good camera with big tubes
> or large CCDs (we are talking cameras in the $80,000
> and up kind of range), using quad or 1" in a studio with
> a decent engineer. Other than being a little soft, the
> images can be quite stunning.
>
> Is it as good as HD cam? No, but it can certainly look
> as good as anything you have seen as S video. Of course
> S is better than composite, but $100,000 cameras aren't
> available in S, and 1" machines don't have a hole to plug
> it in anyway.
>
> Now, if you were talking a component or digital NTSC,
> then it can even be even reasonably sharp. Not as good
> as HD, but decent.
>
> NTSC got it's bad rep back when the whole chain was
> tubes. Everything drifted, a lot. Now that we have chips
> and transistors NTSC TV is much more stable.
>
> David
>

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