The end of 35mm adapers and hv20s....

Man, there's some cool video samples on this new link zergtherobot posted. I'd love to see them in HD without the compression thought. Even if it can only record 5min it'll be like like having to change a reel.
 
Lee Wilson said:
BMX original 720p sample suffers from just about every consumer camcorder problem going !

Stair stepping (see BMX wheels)
Rolling shutter wobble (look at the folk in the foreground at the start of the shot!)
Exposure jumping up and down in distinct steps (!)
Banding.
And an overall soft image (as if run through a median filter!!)

Hopefully most of these can be overcome or are down the user error - although I know no remedy for an obvious rolling shutter wobble.

Looks like a door just opened onto something wonderful.
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That exposure jumping is because it's not on lockdown. I'm pretty sure it's confirmed that you can disable that.

What is stair stepping, may I ask?


PS: That link has been posted before and whoever shot it really didn't attempt to impress us. Seemed like some R&D guy just messed around with it. Only that shot in the park (with the woman) is really impressive to any level.

PPS: Just rewatched the BMX clip, look at the railing, rolling shutter slant for sure. (as someone pictorially pointed out earlier.)
 
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several people have posted you can lock down the exposure. what about the shutter speed? i think i read that is auto as well to keep the image constant.
 
slimchrisp said:
several people have posted you can lock down the exposure. what about the shutter speed? i think i read that is auto as well to keep the image constant.
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From the 1st demo from Nikon D Movie site it's visible that the table scene with two females has AE-Lock engaged and the shutter stays at 60th and the aperture is set at f4. If you figure out what does AE-L mean in Nikon terms you got an answer. I did the same with my HV20, pointed the cam around until it reads the right amount of light and then locked the exp with joystick.
With DSLR the AE-L engages usually even with half-pressing the shutter button locking all the shutter/aperture values in place.

But if the lock isn't flexible enough it will mess up the shutter speed for movie making. Or it will not allow you to change aperture even if the shutter speed is right. It could get really tricky if the D90 will not allow full manual shooting in movie mode. NAd then there's the rolling shutter that maybe isn't that bad but...

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No matter how this video thing turns out the pictures taken with the D90 look pretty sweet. Add to that whattever we can get out of this new d-video tool and it's a killer deal for this price. I hope the quality turns out really good...so the competition has to work really hard...hehehe...some men simply like to watch the world burn :evil:
 
1080i ??

1080i ??

CAn I confirm if this is a typo ?? It says 480P. 720P and 1080i on the HDMI output.. Why would someone add just 1 interlaced video mode to progressive still and 2 other video modes ??
CAn it be 1080p sent within 1080i ?? i.e. A signal that needs pulldown to extract 24P ??
 
Ryan Patrick O'Hara said:
He's probably still trying to find a way to get the video into photoshop.:laugh:
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Heh, actually Ryan, you CAN load a video into Photoshop CS3 Extended ; you can modify it frame by frame, apply filters, color correction, etc. etc. :D

You can actually do pretty much anything with your movie that you would with still photography. It's just not the same workflow as After Effects, and doesn't do as much as AE either. Uses a lot of comp juice too, but that's another story...

God I'm hyped up about this D90, anyone needs a used but well-cared D200 along with a grat-shaped XL2?:cool:
 
DM_rider said:
I talked to the guys at my local camera shop and they said that their cameras are shipping on the 16th of September?
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Yeah... I read two places that they'll be available in September.

Is this confirmed then??

If so, my D80 is going in the marketplace tomorrow.
 
hunter richards said:
I bet you will do more than that Zak based on your track record- like improved multi-camera short films?
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if this camera comes out in september, i'm going to shoot a feature, WANDERLUST, on it that i intended to shoot with an HV20 during the first two weeks of october. wanted to do a lot of streetlight and car interior (at night) shooting and this looks like it will enable me to do that and still keep the 35mm aesthetic.
 
say someone wanted to pre-order this camera. i don't buy a lot of still cameras, so where would a guy go for a good price and reliable, immediate delivery of a D90? body only.
 
Here is a review from London on youtube. I guess Nikon shot footage throughout London, Wish we could get our hands on that footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwG86ym3Ucg&fmt=18

This camera is the first baby step and a view to what's coming. Finally large frame Digital video. When this gets mature, most of us can throw the overpriced adapters away. Might make good paper weights.

In this review from imaging-resource they mention how all picture controls can be used in HD mode. That's awesome. As well the image stabilizer too.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D90/D90A3.HTM


I wonder if Canon is going to play the usual "lame duck" approach and not respond. It is however their usual modus operandi.....................
 
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Since the footage is progressive, you can change it to 23.98 if you wanted to pretty easily without any processing/transcoding. Its simply framerate meta data to you NLE. You can even cut other 23.98 material with it at 24fps, it just gets sped up ever ever so slightly that no one will notice.
 
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