[Michael Brennan]

Managing clients expectations is vital when it comes to aerials.

Unless we ask we dont know what they are basing their expectations on and they often dont know what equipment was used to deliver the pictures they are trying to replicate.

Only you will know if the compromise in quality is balanced by lower cost of going hand held tyler instead of an active system like Cineflex.

Many markets can’t afford a cineflex.

I own a Kenyon and it is helpfull hand held with lighter cameras.

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

Juan,
its great to see someone from Sony posting here!

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

Hi Paul,
other than the press release I know little more about it.
But dont let that stop me having an opinion about it 🙂

There doesnt seem to be a ultra high res 3.5 inch on hte market.
But LCD. 3.5 inch is common for Sony Cyber shot cameras and domestic camcorders, so I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions as to what is inside this unit. Most of the 3.5 inch are 1/4 res HD. Certainly the price would indicte that they have not achieved a big improvement in resolution and the press releases have not mentioned high resolutiona s one of its features.

The original B&W viewfinder has around 600 lines when new and is scanned at 1080i.
Apparently “they” can’t pack phosphors small enough onto the face of the tube for us to see more than 600 lines or so.
The 3 inch colour viewfinder is lower res than the black and white in my opinion.
But its form factor is cool with a removable monocular, that reveals the colour display for camera assistant to see.
It would seem that the new viewfinder will follow this form factor.
It will be quite chunky if this is the case.
The accuscene uses flat screen ferro-electric liquid crystal on silicon microdisplay with proprietory processing to deliver 720p lines. It has excellent picture and feature set for the pro camera operator.
A two piece unit was planned but is not yet available. Thier home page has an email support link and nothing else at the moment…..

$8k for a display that (probably) comes as standard in a

[Michael Brennan]

Thank you Walter and Bob!!

despite being fresh out of the box the installation software on Kona website is newer.

Mac and Me now purring like a kitten

cheers

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

Had a similar experience with Sony Europe until they saw reason (after many months) and replaced my first lemon f900.
2nd f900/3 has been AOK. They should have waited another 6 months to finish developing the thing, the first cameras off the production line were dire. They haven’t rushed into launching XDCAM HD so lets hope it works as expected, but note that they never work as advertised!

We each have a different style of shooting, markets and audiences are diverse which results in different perspectives.
In my view for SD work the difference between the 900s in terms of resolution is minor.

But watching HD channels on a large 1920×1080 set the difference between programmes shot with 2.1 million pixel camera camera and a 920k pixel camera is clear, at least to me. Compare American Chopper to live football.

I refer to the point already made that doing a test that does not involve post workflow does not tell the whole story.
A 24 inch CRT should not be sole source of reference in regard to evaluating resolution, prism colour fringing and any optical differences between lenses.
To state the obvious, Panasonic is more sensative because they have half the number of pixels so they are larger and suck in more light.

I promote 1920×1080 capture and 10bit recording for HD work. This unilateral approach is not always the best business decision!
For HD transmission, 1920X1080 pixel 10Bit recording is where our future lies, otherwise something like a progressive scan DVW 970 10bit digibeta has a cleaner picture to air with more tonality than any 8 bit HDcamcorder.

Thats why Sony didn’t release the DVW970 until three years after HDCAM, it looks better on SD transmission than HDCAM.

Wonder what they aren’t releasing at the moment!

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

HDW 790/P ???? Typo? should be HDW 730????

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

Schneider have 1 stop and 2 stop polars that work well.
If you need a screw in and Schneider dont have it try Canon.

Mike

[Michael Brennan]

Thanks Walter,
QT 7 movie info says that it is 1920×1080 10 bit uncompressed.

Unfortunatly I dont have FCP at home, but would be prepared to buy it tonight if it will solve the problem.

QT7 points me to a plug ins page at Apple. I can’t figure out which one would work.
Shame that you can output a file from FCP that QT7pro cant play.

Mike

[Michael Brennan]

Surely there is scope to market the 900 at a premium as it records more pixels than Varicam…..

Mike Brennan

[Michael Brennan]

In progressive mode the camera looses resolution because it is not a true progressive chip they fudge the progressive part.
It looses more res at 60p.

Acceptable resolution and nosie levels often varies from project to project.
HDCAM is soft compared to HDCAMSR
720p is soft compared to HDCAM.

HDV is soft compared to 720p.

Bearing in mind the new factories are churning out 1920×1080 pixel flatscreens as standard above 42 inch one has to be carefull with less than full res and that includes HDCAM in my view.

Mike Brennan