[Pedro Ferreira]

I’ve mentioned it because someone mentioned Grass Valley as a reference to what SONY is doing, and it simply does not compare one thing to the other… There are very BIG digital cinema cameras out there… you are of course comparing a 1/2 CMOS to a FULL SUPER 35mm CMOS or very near like RED ONE or the 2K approach from Silicon Imaging, and SONY is WAY behind that in CMOS technology… for now.

CMOS is in fact much better in terms of linear contrast response, and as so you should get way better Black response with it…BUT… companies like CANON, among others simply kill this kind of dynamic with BAD internal processing. SONY is on its way but is far from being the best, so I remain with my 2 cents, CMOS is still very beta in low end cameras.

The EX1 is a Great camera, regarding final considerations.

[Pedro Ferreira]

Just for you to know, the Grass Valley approach uses 2/3 inch sensors and 22 bit internal processing and 10 bit 4:2:2 recording… certainly not comparable to SONY’s EX approach…

[Pedro Ferreira]

I’ve seen it now. 8 bit (huh?) recording as usual, will not do the miracles you made me believe it would do comparing to my actual cam, and with proper lighting conditions the BIG results are almost not perceptible.

EX1 is more flexible but will not make a huge difference in my pipe.

The major difference for me would be color latitude…and of course contrast too, but none of them would be a blast…

I will buy a BREVIS35 and play with it a bit for now with my prime lenses 😉

Cheers!

[Pedro Ferreira]

Okay.. I’m a bit uninformed about it… Thanks for your help. I will do a better research and try to find other kind of specs about the EX1. My main goal is to achieve top pictures for each client demand, based on price/performance ratio, and as you’re telling me the EX1 will give me an edge on the lower market pricing jobs, such as smaller simpler corporate videos, or so. I do some more complicated jobs, but for those, I most always end up hiring personnel and gear.

Cheers to you all, and all the best!

Pedro

[Pedro Ferreira]

Hi! I have a Z1U cam and am a happy man, but I’m hurting to know something…will my neighbour competitor leave me eating dust in normal Lighting conditions? I currently film and edit, after capturing Apple Intermediate Files, and converting them to uncompressed 10 Bit, and am Very Very strict on final output quality, wich means most projects involve major surgery to achieve the best look possible.

So, I need to record sometimes more than half an hour non-stop to edit next, and that cam’s inability to record at least that kind of time makes me wonder If I am missing something or not…And CMOS are a MINUS for me…If they where as good as they say, F900 would have CMOS…or F23 too…you see…

When I need to shoot anything worth it I go HDCAM or HDCAM SR (rented )