New Pana HD cam [HDC SD-1] grabs & footage

Emanuel

Emanuel

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Yuck, where's the detail in the tree leaves? What good does it do to have all that resolution when the end result looks like a bad photoshop watercolor filter has been applied.
 
i think its an ok compression but you cant use this for hd,it looks bad,like Mathew siad where's the detial.
 
Looks more to be operator error (No offense Emanuel) in focusing less than it does the camera itself.

Still, $1500.00 for a HD camera ? Is that right ?
 
Could you please make them a little bigger? I don't have to use a second monitor yet...:shocked:
 
Well I would consider the operator error an odd factor considering the first couple of shots look like infinity focus to me, which is hard to mess up.

What kind of camera class does this cam fall under? Consumer? I have not heard of this model before.
 
John_Hudson said:
Looks more to be operator error (No offense Emanuel) in focusing less than it does the camera itself.
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Don't worry! I'm not the operator at all. When I'll post something of my own (v.g. my avatar and the original is posted anywhere...), you'll find where the focus is, as well the DOF and out of focus parts.

Blaine said:
Could you please make them a little bigger? I don't have to use a second monitor yet...:shocked:
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LOL Unfortunately, I just posted them as it was possible to download from the original source. I could link them but there are a lot of lazy people (...) whithout power in the fingers and mouse's left button either. OK, for some it is the mouse's right button which is down... :D

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You think so ?

It looks like the focus point is on these little dudes (Or closer to them anyway)

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But it's true. I had the same impression. Also 'cause of that feeling I posted them like the way it goes.


EDIT -- Anyway, it seems there is also low def coming from the CCD block.
 
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I think from the specs the CCD is only a little over .5 megapixel, so that looks about like what I would expect. The little Canon for about the same price blows it away, it's got a full 1080i CMOS, I believe.
 
I'm with John, this looks like operator error. The HVX CCD is "only a little over .5 megapixel" and it matches cameras with 3x as many pixels toe-to-toe.

Not impressed at all by those grabs, I can only assume that there was operator error involved. Even so, this first generation of AVC-HD camcorders are all 60i-only, so I wouldn't really expect them to be of too much interest to the DVXUser membership yet.
 
Barry_Green said:
I'm with John, this looks like operator error.
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How so? Everything appears in focus yet colors are blotchy to the point that it looks like a watercolor painting. I suspect it's just crummy compression on the camera's part. That's to be expected though out of a $1500 consumer camera utilizing a new compression technology.
 
No, it isn't. It should look a thousand times better than that. Those pics are completely unacceptable, and I wouldn't expect Panasonic or Sony or JVC to even bring a product to market that looks like that.
 
That looks truly terrible. Makes you wonder if the person who made the grabs might have messed them up somehow.
 
tigeba said:
That looks truly terrible. Makes you wonder if the person who made the grabs might have messed them up somehow.
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Exactly. There is no way they would launch their newest video format with something that looks like this. There's something wrong somewhere.
 
As a follow-up, I found a review on SimplyDV.com where they say a few things that appear to differ from this previous review, such as:

What's surprising about the picture quality of the recorded movie clips is just how good they are; when recorded using manual exposure, and with care taken in relation to both White Balance and Focus settings in as wide a range of situations as possible, the images look wonderful - even when playing via HDMI onto a large Panasonic Viera TQFD288 LCD screen.
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and

When tested alongside the Sony HDR-SR1 (and pointing at exactly the same subject whilst viewing on identical HD monitor screens), the pictures were markedly better than the Sony's - especially in the more lowly lit sectors of the screen. The Sony's images featured quite high levels of rectangular blockiness whereas the SD1's (and DX1's) equivalent images were beautifully clear and well rendered. The differences weren't just mildly worthy of note, they were immediately apparent - even to the untrained eye.
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So it would seem to me that these grabs are probably not at all what the camera can deliver. They're messed up somehow.
 
I agree strongly here. I bet this new little HD cam will pack a good punch, definitely better than what has been displayed but can't be over the top since its a first generation AVCHD camcorder.
 
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