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  Why isn’t my HMC150 footage looking crisper?

  Posted by Noam Osband on March 2, 2013 at 3:41 pm

  I’ve been doing some shooting with an HMC150 and a Canon XA10. I watched a lot of footage this past week, and the XA10 footage just looks crisper. The colors are a bit more saturated, the blacks a bit more defined. I’m not sure why since the sensor on the HMC150 is supposed to be better.

  I’m using preset scene file 6, Cine-D. Any thoughts for what I can do to change this?

  Noam Osband replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Noah Kadner

  March 4, 2013 at 8:05 pm

  Can you post some still examples?

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  Noam Osband

  March 5, 2013 at 3:14 am

  So, here are two examples Noah. Thanks in advance for the help:

  

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  Noam Osband

  March 6, 2013 at 10:31 pm

  I should say I called B&H yesterday and discussed this question with them. The man there said the XA10 chip is a full 1920×1080 chip while the HMC150 one is not but just scales up the resolution it does have (I realize my language is remarkably imprecise). Which leads to two questions:

  1 – Is the chip actually better on the XA10?
  2 – If it is, isnt that image always going to have a higher upside? The HMC-150 has many advantages, obvously, over the XA10, but in terms of image quality alone, maybe it’s best isnt as good as the best of the XA10.

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