[Corey Gemme]

Thanks for getting back.

So just to clarify,

I’m assuming that 60p actually 60 distinct captures per second at obviously a 60th of a second or faster each?

In Gary’s last post it sounds like he now knows because of the way he was using it, he was getting i signal instead of a p signal. And that he realizes that using the camera like a regular consumer that we would actually get a true p image, and not one where every other line was doubled. Is it possible that this p image however has every other line interpolated? Or is every one of the 1080 lines actually what the image sensor saw?

I guess Gary could verify this too I he’d like to chime in

On a sleightly different topic:

I also noticed on the Japanese website it compared the Panasonic with the Sony and the Panasonic looked sharper. Perhaps it was skewed just to sell the Panasonic. Anybody know of any other side by side comparisons between the Sony HDR-CX550V and the Panisonic?

Since at the moment it seems hard to work with 6op and I may have to do 30p output anyway My interest in the Panasonic right now is that it just looked like a crisper image. But that’s maybe because the 60p setting forced a faster shutter speed than the Sony 30p example.

I’m okay with only 30p if it can give me slower shutter speeds to create a little motion blur which I actually don’t mind in a movie. I used to shoot REGULAR 8mm when I was a kid! I remember when SUPER 8mm came out and it was the big new thing.

Could I combine or blend two 60p frames into one 30p frame to get a little motion blur back?

It seems that the apparent motion blur from converting 60i to 30p would come from the two i fields being not quite lined up and that a native 30p recording would look a little more natural with just one field and a longer shutter speed. Does this sound right?

If it is, I’m assuming that if I converted from 60p to 30p by dropping every other frame that the difference is that I would have 60th of a second shutter speeds or faster and it would be more jittery than if I just shot it at 30p and had longer shutter speeds to create a little motion blur to smooth things out.

One last thing:

Does anybody have the high capacity battery that doesn’t fit onto the camera and uses a cable to hook up to it. How is that working out. Is it possible to cut and splice so it will? and do have to get a charger separately?

So many questions!

Thanks to anybody taking time with me on this.

[Corey Gemme]

So after all this my head is spinning!

So is the verdict that the Panasonic tm700 does do 6op?

Am I correct that I can turn 60i into 30p if I want?