What will give better results…?

[Ron Shook]

Mark,

[Mark Adams] “I have the EX-1 but I don’t have any way to view the signal. No SDI in to my computer and my 20″ HD production crt only has component in.”

I understand, but there are others out there who can do it. I went looking for an answer elsewhere and found others claiming gorgeous output from the HDSDI, but nothing specific about what it is. John may just have different sensibilities or he may have a problem. I’d like to know for sure.

[Mark Adams] “Does anyone know if I could go SDI to HDMI? I could view that on my 37″ HD LCD.”

Convergent Design make such a device but it ain’t cheap at $325 MSRP:

https://www.convergent-design.com/CD_Products_nanoView.htm

Perhaps someone knows of other possibilities.

Ron Shook

[Sverker Hahn]

This thread has been quiet for some time. I wonder if some definite answers have come up regarding the HDSDI capabilities of the EX1.

Sorry for asking a newbie´s questions in these forums, but I also want to check if I am correct in my assumptions:

1. HDSDI output is (should be) better (uncompressed, 10 bit) than capturing to SxS-card.
2. I need a capturing device, like the AJA Io HD.
3. This capturing device must be connected to a computer, like MacBook Pro for storage to a harddisk.
4. The AJA Io HD gives the possibility to save the HDSDI output to ProRes 422 codec.
5. ProRes 422 is a very good codec.

The AJA Io HD is portable, yes, but obviosly it needa 100-240V power. Thinking of bringing camera, tripod, a laptop, the Io, a car battery with a voltage converter in the type of filming I do – nature, wildlife – well, I probably need an assistant with a lot of muscles 🙂

But if the quality in the end is much better, it will be doable.

How much better?

Thanks in advance

/Sverker

[John Ryan]

The HDSDI output is not usable for anything other then rough monitoring and it’s not even good for that when moving the camera like on a crane because of the massive frame delay. The camera is MPEG compressing and decompressing the video before it comes out the SDI as “10bit uncompressed” video.

The 35mbit on the SxS is as good as it gets with the EX1 and that is pretty good.

John

[Sverker Hahn]

Thanks John.

Too bad that this option of higher quality – even if it is expensive and heavy – does not exist. Could it be changed in a coming firmware?

Hopefully I get this nice camera next week …

/Sverker