I have EX1 vs HMC150 vs A1 footage

I have to admit that I'm so glad I can't see a difference between these shots. It must be so aggravating to be aesthetically advanced. I know when I first heard that pedal squeak on "Moby Dick" and if any of you've heard it the song is never the same... but anyway my dull senses aside, they look remarkably similar to me...
Bill
 
Good comparo...

Of the images here I like the EX best out of the box but an adjusted 150 goes a long way!
 
Wow, I had completely forgotten about that pedal squeak (also featured on "Whole Lot a Love") - oh man what memories :D

Okay, now back to our regular programming...
 
Thanks for the comparison. It looks like it was a lot of work, and I appreciate you doing this.

I agree with some of the others that setting each in factory defaults, full auto, is less useful of a comparison than it sounds.

- auto exposure usually auto-over-exposes
- manual focus sometimes hunts
- default colors not very informative if you can highly tweak them

A better comparison, if anyone here has the time and resources, would be to manually tweak each one. But not for a given slant (like hyper blue or whatever) but to the most neutral look possible.

"Removing the human element" sounds scientific, but it's really not in this case because a different human decided on the factory defaults for each camera. It would be more scientific to reduce the differences as much as possible, even though that does of course involve human action.

But thanks again for your study. It still helps.
 
Thanks for the stills...

It seems to me that this kind of test gives at least a general idea of the resolution capabilities of these cameras.

Unless the 150 is consistently out of focus in these test shots, it seems to have the poorest resolution of three.

I suppose that it could be out of focus, but what would that say about its auto-focus ability on bright, high-contrast subjects?
 
I doubt it is out of focus, it just has the lowest resolution imagers of all three cameras.
 
It has been mentioned many times that the strength of the HMC150 is 720p and not 1080i. I think shooting 60 (or 50 for PAL) progressive pictures per second is a huge improvement over the XH-A1.
 
Sorry, which order are the clips?

Is the top left the EX3, the 150 the top right, and the bottom the HVX?
 
I think if you click on each image, the label .jpg label states which camera was used. And thank you for making those shots available for us. I find it quite useful.
 
All of the images, to me, look similiar.
That has not been my experience viewing moving footage on a 1080 source.

The 150 I have seen, looks like a wide screen version of the old sony pd150
(maybe not that good in low light, but flatness in color and lacking detail in dark areas)

The EX1 moving image looks more detailed, with solid and rich colors.

I hate the rolling shutter. The first time I saw it, I didn't know what was going on.
I don't like it, but that type of stuff, I can use a different camera, or the viewing audience won't think anything more than it being the flash of photographers
(not an issue with the video).

I know it is an issue with the video, but I have not heard anyone blame the video
(speaking of a casual non video person) they tend to blame the photographers.
 
If you could offer uncompressed frame grabs, it may give a better idea of performance.
There's more compression artifacts in the blue skyline around the tree image in the HMC150 than the other two cameras.
You can see this by viewing the full 1080 image.
 
It's a Christmas Piece... Angels, Crown of thorns and some whacky dancing. I have the whole show shot and I'll put it up if people want to see it. We had 3 screens going and it was really pretty cool stuff. I'm producing a ton of content for a church along with producing a TV show.


This week I produced a 28.5 minute TV show and a 3 screen multi-media presentation. easily topped a 100 hours this week... Next time I'll outsource some of it to India....
 
This might have been mentioned (or seem immature, but whatever) but when I was looking at the names of the "ducks" shots, I totally thought the ex3 photo was labeled "duck sex 3" instead of "ducks ex3" haha.

...yeah.
 
it looks like the 150 has the most artificial sharpening applied (you can really see it in the stained glass shot).. Considering people are still saying it's pretty soft on resolution/focus, is it just gonna be really bad once you dial down the sharpening?
 
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