How th HVX achieves 1080p

[taormina]

Having a discussion on another board and this piece of info came out about the HVX:

"It's a 540p camera with built-in upconversion to 1080p. There's no way around that 540 Nyquist limit. A/B its 1080p with the 1080p from an F-900/950 on a DLP projector, mapping the data pixels 1-1 to the mirrors. Anything less, and you'd just be looking at the limitations of the viewing system."

Any thoughts / comments?

 

[THoff]

It's not an upconversion. The green CCD is offset both horizontally and vertically so that it isn't sampled at the same location as the other two CCDs.

 

[Jason Ramsey]

Look at the charts. It resolves a lot more than 540 lines. period. Footage tells the story quite well.

Jason

 

[Barry_Green]

And no, it's not going to match an F900, pixel for pixel. Sorry, sometimes the $100,000 camera beats the $5,000 camera.

However, the guys who shoot "The 4400" on the F900 found that the HVX made an excellent B-camera for their F900.

 

[holleywood]

Barry's right, I work at panavision in vancouver BC and it's becoming more common to use the HVX as a B or C-Camera for F-900's, Vipers, and HDX900's. I just sent out an HVX to be used as a C-Camera On a show using the Thompson Viper called Operation Espianage with Wesley Snipes. Here are some other shows we send out HVX's too that use them for C-Cam's: "Kyle XY" (F-950), The 4400 (F-900), The L-Word (F-900), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (F-900), Pain Killer Jane (Viper) and alot more.....

Cheers,

Nathan

 

[Barry_Green]

Well Nathan, that post is going in the "Who's Using The HVX" thread. Thanks for the info!

 

[marketmd]

Sorry, sometimes the $100,000 camera beats the $5,000 camera.

ROTFLMAO!