Colourspace of the PDW-F350 at DVinfo.net

Matthias Koehler · February 23rd, 2007, 04:47 AM

Hi to all of You!

I am afraid that the PDW-F350 will not give me enough colour precision. The last ten years I used an Ikegami camera head and I know exactly how a good picture must be. In my opinion, the 4:2:0 colourspace is too small - or the camera head is simply not good enough.

I will do some more trial recordings next week, but the material seen so far causes serios doubts. Also the use of the gain in bad lighting conditions causes too much noise and this overloads the codec.

What do You think about that?

Matthias

Jonathan Ames · February 23rd, 2007, 08:52 AM

This isn't my area and I'll ask Paolo to more fully respond but that being said, we keyed some exceedingly demanding shots with the 350 for El Papel's pilot after assuring that they could be done and had zero issues with the camera.

As I said, I'll ask Paolo for his camera settings but we had zero problems with the colorspace and, if we did, we'd have simply gotten a camera that did the job. Now, don't get me wrong, there are still some things on the Christmas Wish List for the 350 but colorspace certainly, from our experience, isn't one of them.

Nate Weaver · February 23rd, 2007, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Matthias Koehler

What do You think about that?

I think you must be a pretty demanding user, but if that's the way it is, then that's the way it is. Good luck!

February 23rd, 2007, 04:47 AM	#1
Matthias Koehler New Boot Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 24	Colourspace of the PDW-F350 Hi to all of You! I am afraid that the PDW-F350 will not give me enough colour precision. The last ten years I used an Ikegami camera head and I know exactly how a good picture must be. In my opinion, the 4:2:0 colourspace is too small - or the camera head is simply not good enough. I will do some more trial recordings next week, but the material seen so far causes serios doubts. Also the use of the gain in bad lighting conditions causes too much noise and this overloads the codec. What do You think about that? Matthias

February 23rd, 2007, 08:52 AM	#2
Jonathan Ames 2nd Unit TV Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 509	This isn't my area and I'll ask Paolo to more fully respond but that being said, we keyed some exceedingly demanding shots with the 350 for El Papel's pilot after assuring that they could be done and had zero issues with the camera. As I said, I'll ask Paolo for his camera settings but we had zero problems with the colorspace and, if we did, we'd have simply gotten a camera that did the job. Now, don't get me wrong, there are still some things on the Christmas Wish List for the 350 but colorspace certainly, from our experience, isn't one of them. Last edited by Rob Lohman; February 25th, 2007 at 06:38 PM.