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The A1 has an 'instant focus' button - although I must be honest and say I haven't used it yet. Cheers, Matthew. |
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Considering the dollar and inflation lately, I suppose I'm going to just assume a $3,500 price point and keep my fingers crossed for a lower point. Scarlet will apparently work "out of the box". I believe the only accessory necessary to actually begin recording are CF cards. Of course one will want external mics, perhaps a larger LCD, extra batteries, etc... all the stuff we want for our HD cams anyway.
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the instant auto focus button does work ok, better in 50i than 25p but tbh if you have to rely on that rather than your sight, something is wrong and its slower.
you can up the sharpness of the lcd and use it in black and white which helps however the camera would be soo much better just with an upgrade to the lcd. I recently spent six nights filming dance shows and sometimes cursed the lcd because of the focus..to get round the lack of zebra(as i was using peaking) i ran in spotlight mode.. now that is very effective ..almost faultless over the six nights zero noise in the blacks( to my eye) and great exposure on the faces under the hot spots. i wished i had an ex1 because of the great lcd until the last 2 nights when strobes were used extensively during some dance routines and then the cmos partial exposures would have concerned me. so prob no camera is perfect but the results were first class (well i think so) just shame that one or two extreem close up shots of singers were ruined by soft focus, which looked fine on the lcd but not on the 24 inch monitor! |
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It better include the lens given that the Scarlet lens is not removable.
Consequently the lens range that applies to the RED One doesn't apply to Scarlet. The best Scarlet can hope for is a wide and telephoto adapter. Or an external 35mm adapter setup. |
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Excellent post Phillip.
You are of course correct that the AVC Encoding of Blu-Ray is done with very sophisticated hardware and under supervision of a professional. And yet, some transfers still do come across all that well. That said, as you noted, the fault doesn't lie with the codec necessarily on the camera end. I am willing to bet that with the increased bandwidth of ~24Mbps like in the upcoming Panasonic, things will begin to look better and better. Perhaps not twice as good as the now mature HDV though as you said. I think the 4:2:0 video issue has been blown out of proportion to a degree. I was very concerned about this decision with the EX1. But it seems that with the true 1080 imagers, the 4:2:0 sampling is just not that big a deal. I am referencing the testing done by Adam Wilt and others, and I am referencing what I am seeing out of my own camera. In regards to RED's wavelet compression scheme, yes, it can look fantastic. But I've not heard whether Scarlet is indeed going to offer the same RED Raw codec out of Scarlet, or if they are going to do something else. The potential Scarlet buyer may not have the resources to push around a 3k 4:4:4 image on their editing workstation. And that workflow for RED files is going to need quite a lot of polish before I'd be comfortable recommending Scarlet to the average Joe debating a Sony or a Canon, or a Scarlet. At this point, you can even use RED native files outside FCP. I'm using RedCine as an intermediate step, but processing even 5 minutes of RED Raw into lossless quicktime takes a WHILE. Scarlet is exciting, but no panacea to the common shooter. I still want one though! :) -P Quote:
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I mean, were are the controls on this camera if you need them in run/gun situations, beside the focus ring on the lens the camera doesn't seem to have the manual controls "regular" camera's have on the side of the camera. The red actually looks like a Borg ship (for those that are familiar with Star-Trek) :) Does this camera require you to go inside the menu to adjust settings? |
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This is why it's a good idea to wait till a camera is on the market and in reasonable use by others before you buy one. You don't want to be like all those people who stood in line for hours and hours for the new iPhone only to find out they couldn't activate it on the day they bought it. Patience is a virtue when it comes to anything electronic.
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If you read the Canon interview at NAB (somewhere on this site) where they introduced the H1s, you will see that the bell most certainly is tolling for HDV for Canon and other mfgs. However, Canon realizes that without NLE support, a new codec won't fly. But I don't see see why future NLEs should have a problem digesting multiple codecs. NLE software is following Moores law almost as fast as hardware, although there was a huge initial lag (remember editing HDV in 2004?).
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http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content...H1A-34876.htm# The fact is that no format lasts forever and they can all be considered transitional; it took several years to get HDV going, it now has more software/hardware support than ever, and it's not going to go away overnight. The OP asked if the A1 is really worth it...the evidence says, yes it is.
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Like John Estcourt said HD can actually be a negative in regards to focus. I've read others say when shooting in HD if your out of focus its very apparent due to the detail of HD. HD TV: Remember that more ppl have HD tv than a blueray player. Almost all content that is available comes from broadcast not disc. So its common that someone might own a HD tv but not have a blueray player and won't be able to watch your blueray wedding video, which then will force you to offer an HD and SD version which is a royal pain. Until the majority of movies are offered on blueray and the price is lower than 400 for a player the majority of clients will stay with sd. HD over the web: All of the quality gains you get from HD are lost when optimizing for the Web. HD is counterproductive if you trying to get a movie down to a reasonable size. Sounds like your sold on the camera. I'm not saying you shouldn't get it just in my experience of two years work and over 20 clients I've never receive a request for HD. Btw, I own a Sony Z1. |
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Regarding the Scarlet ... not too many brides I've come across are after 3K resolution for their wedding ;)
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Think that most people don't even know that they can have their wedding video in HD on their LCD as they believe that's only possible with "real" movies. There are several of my competitors that have been offering their weddings in HD for years with a big slogan on their site but actually were delivering in SD, in that way people will never know the real meaning of HD. That's the reason why I will refuse to downconvert with the XH-A1 as I intent to use it for what it was designed for, I might not use it a lot in the beginning but for sure I will push it as much as possible to sell it in a HD package with a blu-ray disk. It's just a matter of educating your clients and show them what HD is all about. |
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As far as the LCD viewer goes, its not feasible to attach a larger viewer to the camera. Sony FX1/z1 have large LCDs. You'll pay more but if thats important to you, you might as well get what you want. What I'm saying about the web is in order to see the quality of HD it needs to be fairly large with not much compression. That makes the movie take a long time to download. If I have to wait more than a minute for it to load I'm out of there. Do you think you could tell the difference between a youtube movie shot in hd vs sd? |
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