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squig said:
I thought the D90 was the new DVX.......it is in terms of filmmakers picking it up and actually shooting features
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really? can you link me to any features that actually exist shot with the d90? i'd be interested in seeing it as i'm trying to cook some stuff up myself
 
mattsand said:
Any four thirds or micro four thirds lens should have af on this body, like the olympus i mentioned, which is why i mentioned it. Not that i've ever used af for movies or ever will, but for the record. If they don't mention manual iso control it's a fact that it doesn't exist? Sorry but you lost of there. /m
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Important features should be highlighted - that are actually the rules of advertising. Maybe Pana thought that it´s not worth mentioning - but I suppose they didn´t. But in june we all will know it at the latest.

Regarding the lenses: The AF of Canon + Nikon will not work. And, to be honest, I don´t really know whether the AF of MFT-Glasses in general are compatible with the new GH1 or not. But if yes, they are surely not optimized for the video mode as you mentioned by yourself. If one hear allways peculiar noises working with AF they are rather useless.

John Caballero said:
Auto focus is a great option. The original DVX 100 did not have it but later versions did. I've used it countless times in my HVX 200 and it has worked very well. The more options you get the better. Then it is up to the operator to use them or not.
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Exactly - that´s right. Not only amateurs like the AF-feature. That doesn´t mean, that you will use it in every situation. But for some shots it could be a real benefit...
 
capice said:
Important features should be highlighted
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i've never seen a camera advertised as having manual control over iso and still many of them have it. i'm 100% sure this one has it in still mode, and they don't advertise that either, right?
Regarding the lenses: The AF of Canon + Nikon will not work
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obviously because they don't make lenses for this mount. sigma, olympus, panasonic and leica do, more might follow.

/matt
 
capice said:
In still mode it goes without saying - a naturalness. In movie mode not.
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why not? because the d90 doesn't have it? most video cameras do and panasonic ones in particular. it's not something that's usually specified either way as far as i've seen. sure, let's wait and see but it sounded as if it was confirmed, which is why i asked.

/matt
 
you're on. i'd love to come down with the money if i lose. hamburg is one of my favorite cities in europe. buy a case of astra and warm up that pirate flag for me. ;-)

/matt
 
Eddy Robinson said:
An external converter like Streamclip will do fine. If you want to do the 30->29.97 conversion in the NLE, it's best do do all the conversion before you start editing. Use some software that can do batch processing like adobe audition and shrink or pitch up the clips by 0.1% - such a small pitch change won't change the quality of the audio noticeably.

One of Pro Tools' selling points is that it handles this by manipulating the sample rate of the DSP hardware, but the reason that matters is that for film you're generally planning to output both for TV and theater - so you record audio at 30fps because it's relatively easy to resolve that to both 29.97 and 24.

Happily, all this will cease to matter in the next few years as TV goes digital. Frame rates like 59.94 and 23.976 are just there for backwards compatibility.
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Actually, I meant this post:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/1010922-post77.html

What do you say about it including that your workaround?
 
Caesar said:
Actually, I meant this post:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/1010922-post77.html
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Not a big issue. Timecode drifts over many hours, but a TC clock usually runs around 30 fps, compared to a sample rate clock running at 1600+ times that rate (eg 48 KHz). The TC drift is an artifact of the method used to synthesize the timing square wave due to cumulative errors in the DSP algorithm. On set with a recorder and TC slate I usually jam-sync every 2 or 3 hours, but more out of good practise than any real necessity.

So if you use the time-of-day method I described above (eg for 2 cameras), you could always double check the offset for each hour of tape, or battery change, or on each new scene, or just for every few hours of footage if you were recording everything on hard drives. As I said, if you put all of a days' footage on the timeline and line stuff up correctly at the start, you can then jump to the end of the sequence and see what degree of drift there is between the two cameras. This assumes, of course, than your camera has an internal battery to correctly maintain time of day etc even when the main battery is switched out.
 
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Following this in the other thread... can't wait to see some raw footage from this camera. Gonna be the first up on the chopping block to tear into it barring some decent resolving power showing up in 720P and 1080I/24 modes.
 
I can see a GH1 D90 shootout coming......can't wait

Matt have you tweaked that custom curve since you uploaded it? I'm about to give it a try
 
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GH1 resolving power? Beautiful rendering of out of focus areas? Built in Photoshop surface blur filter? Found at 1:22.

If the final GH1 produces anything like this better keep your D90!

Edit: At 0:44 you can see they used the lowest possible quality setting (9Mbps 720p @ 60fps = about 4.5 Mbps @ 30fps) so I better shut up before I see samples shot by a pro using a tripod and the highest possible quality setting.
 
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i have no complains with video. although its still needs better performance. the lowlight seems to be at a good level performance.

that blur comment is just petty. compared to how bad d90's rolling shutter is and no manual controls.
 
OK, Nice
But all i want to know is : Can I make nice DOF with this camera in combination with the stock lens.
That's most interesting point with the changeability option of the lens.
Most of us are glad with the HVX and the HPX camera's only the DOF problem get us headattack's.
A good 35mm adapter is to expensive and a huge setup. Is this the right with the solutions beside my HVX ??
 
cane said:
But all i want to know is : Can I make nice DOF with this camera in combination with the stock lens.
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do you have a d90? the sensor is only a little bit bigger so put on a lens of choice, stop down to f/4, crop a few percent on each side and see for yourself. it's not gonna look like f/1.4 on a full frame camera but who wants that anyway? except for wide angle work i guess, at 14mm you'll probably have everything in focus all the time.

/matt
 
No i don't have the d90 YET I was looking for a good lens combination and research here and there for extra information.
I give me 2 mounts time to save the money together and now this thread comes around.
 
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