Mike Curtis
March 3rd, 2005, 03:05 AM
Hey all -
I don't have specific analysis yet, it'll be trickling in over the next few weeks, but on Monday we finally pulled off a camera test I've been meaning to do forever: we shot Sony Cinealta (F900), Panasonic Varicam, Sony HDV (HVR-Z1U), Canon XL2 and Panasonic DVX100a, all side by side, all simultaneously. We got about 30 shots - indoors, outdoors, locked off on sticks, handheld, panning on sticks, low light, wide/medium/close-ups, everything we could think of we could accomplish in a day.
I also recorded the HD-SDI output of the F900 and Varicam directly to disk - so instead of 1440x1080 8 bit compressed, I have 1920x1080 10 bit uncompressed from the F900. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to record the HDV camera's output uncompressed to disk, a necessary adaptor wasn't available in time.
I've posted a couple of links already -
http://www.hdforindies.com/2005/02/multi-camera-test-was-today-it-went
has a general overview of the shoot
http://www.hdforindies.com/2005/03/pictures-notes-posted-from-mondays
has a link to pictures from the shoot and talks about what's next
Keep reading HD For Indies for further updates -
http://www.hdforindies.com
-mike
I don't have specific analysis yet, it'll be trickling in over the next few weeks, but on Monday we finally pulled off a camera test I've been meaning to do forever: we shot Sony Cinealta (F900), Panasonic Varicam, Sony HDV (HVR-Z1U), Canon XL2 and Panasonic DVX100a, all side by side, all simultaneously. We got about 30 shots - indoors, outdoors, locked off on sticks, handheld, panning on sticks, low light, wide/medium/close-ups, everything we could think of we could accomplish in a day.
I also recorded the HD-SDI output of the F900 and Varicam directly to disk - so instead of 1440x1080 8 bit compressed, I have 1920x1080 10 bit uncompressed from the F900. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to record the HDV camera's output uncompressed to disk, a necessary adaptor wasn't available in time.
I've posted a couple of links already -
http://www.hdforindies.com/2005/02/multi-camera-test-was-today-it-went
has a general overview of the shoot
http://www.hdforindies.com/2005/03/pictures-notes-posted-from-mondays
has a link to pictures from the shoot and talks about what's next
Keep reading HD For Indies for further updates -
http://www.hdforindies.com
-mike