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AJ SPX800
Has this camera shipped? If so does anyone have some feedback to share.
I’m really interested in this camera and would love to hear some real world experiences.
The 200 sounds interesting but I’ll need the 2/3rd chips and interchangable lens functions.
If this camera looks as good as the 900 then I’m not worried about uprezing to HD. I know it’ll
look awesome.
I think P2 is interesting but I’m just not convenced yet…. someone talk me into it.
Anybody?
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It’s more or less very similar to the 900 only with P2 instead of tape.
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Hi,
I’ve just got a brand new 800 on my desk. The 800 is the same camera as the 900. So why waste money. It works exactly like with tapes, but the workflow is amazing. No time for batching. The camera does a real 16:9 and to me, the 2/3 inch signal is better than the new HDV stuff.
What else do you want to know?Rainer
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that sounds great. How are you getting the video into your system? Straight from the camera or do you have the portable drive? Also what lens are you using?
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Go into our workflow discussion with Jesse.
I use a nomal 2/3 inch broadcast lens.Rainer
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Hi Rainer,
Sorry to ask such a simple question but I’d like to read your workflow discussion as well but I’m not familiar with where you directed us to go to in order to read this. Could you be more specific? Thanks.
Chris Baldwin
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[beak] “If this camera looks as good as the 900 then I’m not worried about uprezing to HD.”
I would.
Any problem in SD looks 4 times bigger in HD.
It is like “blow up” from 16mm to 35mm.
Any problems with pixels in SD will be much more visible in HD.
Bottom line is:if someone wonts real HD picture,they will have to shoot HD,
no short cuts….
regards-jiri vrozina -
I beg to differ- I’ve seen amazing blowups to HD done from the SDX900. It’s all in what methods you use to do the upconvert and how solid the original footage is. And we all can’t afford to shoot HD…
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My friend shot the whole series on 910(which I own as well).
It was upconverted onto HD on expansive upconverter.
It looks OK,but it is no HD-true HD.
It is like “upconverting” S-VHS to SP.
It just LOOKS OK.
Regards-jiri vrozina -
Noah-
I couldn’t agree more- I’ve seen footage shot with the SDX-900, then blown up to HD and then finally projected onto a huge screen (The Dome)… the footage looked GREAT !
So much of it depends on the LIGHTING and the DOP !
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Yeah Jiri- sounds like you got a nothing special upconvert. I’ve seen great work done for example with Algolith operated by someone who really knew their stuff. Miracles can be done.
https://www.algolith.com/index.php?id=algosuite
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