Ben Mergelsberg
March 25th, 2009, 07:48 AM
my background is photography, now going into independent film making, sorry if my questions are a bit naive.
I am about to buy a camera that will do with my independent film productions for a while, able to spend GBP 2000... used Sony Z1s are around this level. I did some research and it seems the camera would fit my purposes well. I am wondering if you'd agree or would recommend any other (maybe newer) models for my purposes. Most important for me is:
- very good and easily accessible manual control (zoom, Iris, gain, shutter speed, white balance..)
- large and comfortable viewfinder
- good to work with in all sorts of conditions (lowlight, unfavourable weather etc.)
As far as I can see the main weaknesses of the Z1 are:
- impossible to exchange the lens
- not great performance in lowlight conditions
- interlaced "cineframe" image
would you agree? any camera in the same price range that might suit me better? are there any other weaknesses in the Z1? I assume it works well with Final Cut?
And a last question: will I have problems editing HD footage on my macbook?
(Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz)
Thanks!
I am about to buy a camera that will do with my independent film productions for a while, able to spend GBP 2000... used Sony Z1s are around this level. I did some research and it seems the camera would fit my purposes well. I am wondering if you'd agree or would recommend any other (maybe newer) models for my purposes. Most important for me is:
- very good and easily accessible manual control (zoom, Iris, gain, shutter speed, white balance..)
- large and comfortable viewfinder
- good to work with in all sorts of conditions (lowlight, unfavourable weather etc.)
As far as I can see the main weaknesses of the Z1 are:
- impossible to exchange the lens
- not great performance in lowlight conditions
- interlaced "cineframe" image
would you agree? any camera in the same price range that might suit me better? are there any other weaknesses in the Z1? I assume it works well with Final Cut?
And a last question: will I have problems editing HD footage on my macbook?
(Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz)
Thanks!