Panasonic’s 1/3″ DV vs Sony’s 2/3″ DVCAM

[Graeme Nattress]

I’m always very suspicious of cameras that ship with the edge detail on full, or turned up so much it’s visible. All the HDV footage I’ve seen has had the edge detail up, and indeed, the demo footage from Sony I got had visible edge enhancement, sort of like what you get on a DVD mastered with a 14″ portable TV in mind – ouch. Edge enhancement is neither useful nor clever, and, especially as compression schemes work better with softer pictures, it’s realy advisable to add just enough in post, if needed.

Graeme

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[Nick B]

I did say i was looking at uncompressed out on the Z1 not hdv tape and it was very good, ‘digibeta like’ and i say that as someone who has spent over 10yrs looking at digibeta footage on grade 1 monitors it was good under ‘show conditions’

However for the highest quality for the money you will need to go Panasonic P2 HVX200 and deal with the P2 issues.