OK, I'm a Panasonic guy (DVX100b, HVX200, HPX170, HPX250) but I have to say I'm getting sucked into the larger-sensor-is-better thing. I hate shooting with DSLRs, so the AF100 seemed to be the way into the new world, but I also hate AVCHD, so it took me a long time to even think about it. Since I'm still working primarily with FCP7, there are obvious reasons.
So I buy a nice used AF100 and add a BM Video Assist connected with an SD cable so I can at least record in ProRes. I was shooting an experimental project that will be posted online so I was shooting 1080 30p sending the footage to the VA. It works great. The picture on the VA screen is wonderful. I can't tell how the VA is recording it. I assume it's the same as the camera is sending it. Is there any way to tell?
Anyway, back to the whole AF100 thing: It still seems like a nice camera, all the conveniences of my favorite P2 machines and the larger sensor. I suppose I keep expecting to see footage come out of this thing looking like it was shot on an Alexa with Zeiss primes, but that ain't gonna happen. Still it looks better than the 1/3 sensor footage I'm used to. It still seems to be a viable platform, albeit a little old now. (Was the 100A really much of an improvement?)
If I don't want to move to 4K, and I don't, this still looks practical, or has the ship long since sailed on this platform? Is this a common platform combination, the AF100 + Video Assist?
Thanks.
So I buy a nice used AF100 and add a BM Video Assist connected with an SD cable so I can at least record in ProRes. I was shooting an experimental project that will be posted online so I was shooting 1080 30p sending the footage to the VA. It works great. The picture on the VA screen is wonderful. I can't tell how the VA is recording it. I assume it's the same as the camera is sending it. Is there any way to tell?
Anyway, back to the whole AF100 thing: It still seems like a nice camera, all the conveniences of my favorite P2 machines and the larger sensor. I suppose I keep expecting to see footage come out of this thing looking like it was shot on an Alexa with Zeiss primes, but that ain't gonna happen. Still it looks better than the 1/3 sensor footage I'm used to. It still seems to be a viable platform, albeit a little old now. (Was the 100A really much of an improvement?)
If I don't want to move to 4K, and I don't, this still looks practical, or has the ship long since sailed on this platform? Is this a common platform combination, the AF100 + Video Assist?
Thanks.
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