I just saw some footage I shot from a Panasonic's 24p DVX100 I tested. I viewed the footage on my friend's TV and I have a great way of getting the film look. Buying this camera.

-Vinson

I feel compelled to interject something about the "film look" issue. ZGC is marketing a product called the P+S Technik Mini35 Digital adapter for the Canon XL1/XL1S (as well as for the Sony PD150). It gives you a "film look," meaning: You no longer are a slave to the 1/3 inch chip which gives you a flat video image. With the ability to use 35mm lenses on a DV camera, you still capture the image on the 1/3 inch CCD, but you're shooting in 35mm which gives you a depth of field you could never get with the camera otherwise. 35mm format allows you to capture images like your eye sees, in-focus subjects with out of focus areas. That more natural look, like the human eye sees is pleasing and comfortable.

The finished product using the Mini35 with the XL1/XL1S is not EXACTLY like capturing the footage using film stock, but it does have a grainy look and DOF, giving you a hybrid between the "glossiness" of video and the pleasing effect of film.

Here's a good example of what the film look can do:

A videographer in Vermont recently shot TV spots for one of three candidates in the governor's race using a Canon Xl1 and the Mini35 adapter. PBS aired a show that ran TV spots from each of the 3 candidates campaigns. His spots looked far better than the others and a as a result, the candidate's campaign got flack for having spent public funds to shoot the spots using expensive film stock. What a great testimonial for the XL1, the Mini35 and the "film look." The videographer, Jim Giberti, also told me that the color saturation was fabulous with the Mini35. I believe he used Nikon 35mm lenses.

Cheers,
Barbara Lowry
ZGC, Inc.
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