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Are these TRUE HD?
Are all these camaras listed in this section "TRUE" high defenition? Because I heard in a couple places that some camras like the canon line is not "TRUE" HD... Help...I want to switch to HD but am not sure what camaras I should be looking at...Any suggestions...Thanks
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The Canon XL-H1 has been used side by side with the $100,000.00 cameras with very very good results so you shouldn't be too worried about it. |
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While all of the above is of course true, but one mustn't forget Sony executive Phil Harrison, who got a little over-excited at the prospect of 1080p60 during Sony's Tokyo Game Show PlayStation 3 preview:
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Ok ..so which camara would you guys suggest I should be looking at?
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All of them. Go to the store and put them all in you hands and see what feels good to you. The four main manufacturers Sony, Pany, JVC and Canon all have great cameras. Establish your budget and determine your requirements then make a decision based on that.
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Javier,
Just so we can make this post somewhat useful to all, what is your total budget? Camera, tripod & head, lights, stands, audio equipment, cases, computers and software------and all? What can you spend? Mike |
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What about the canon XH A1?
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And here's a real surprise. I bought my wife a Canon HV10. I have the JVC HD110. That little HDV camcorder spits out a great 1080i picture. It's 1920X1080 CMOS sensor is on par or better than with Sony HDV like the FX-1. Actually I like the Canon picture better than the Sony.
I was very surprised (although the reviews are relatively good) when I hooked it up to a HDTV and pushed play. Not any noise to speak of. And some manual control is available too. Some of these sub $1500 camcorders are putting out pretty good HDV material. |
I bought an HC1 to test the waters. I've used it on about four professional shoots now. I will continue to do so until I get something with better manual controls, (either a Canon A1 or the Sony V1U).
It's not a professional camcorder, but the image quality is worth it. When viewed on my Sony Bravia LCD, the image quality is just as good or exceeds that of the Hi-Def channels I get with my cable service. In my experience it is HD. Let me add to this, it's possible some of the training jobs I've done with this camera will still be viewed ten years from now, and I'm certain it will hold up to whatever monitor it is viewed from. |
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I was recently helping out a friend who uses a SONY DSR-500 2/3" chip DVCAM camera who broke his leg and I spent some time to compare his camera with my sad little SONY HC1. I wanted to do this because most people have been comparing 1/3" DV to 1/3" HDV and I wanted to see what a very highend SD camera would do compared to HDV. Well I can say that even though the DSR-500 is clearly a much better camera in terms of optics and pretty much everything else, my little HC1 beat the crap out of it in terms of detail. Even when I scaled down to SD resolution the HC1 just blew away what the DSR-500 could do. My friend said the DSR-500 looked like it handled contrasts better but then again we were comparing a 1/3" single chip with very bad controls to a 2/3" 3 chip camera. A good HDV camera with great chips and great optics will easily blow away even the most high end SD cameras. I even think my HC1 beat the pants off of the high end SD camera and that is pretty much the bottom of the pile of HDV.
Yes my friend has better controls and for the most part will shoot better material due to the way the camera handles but if shot right the HC1 in the right environment will blow it away. Just to note this test was done indoors and not in bright sunlight where HDV will always look good. I did this indoors because I figured the DSR-500 would have had the edge on an indoor shoot but it still fell way behind. |
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