100b with a DVC 80
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i'm amazed no one has delt with this. DVC 80s are so cheep and if you just need 30i, this actually has a better monitor to see when the focus hits. Plus its my play back deck to keep the hours down on the 100b.
BTW; It's clear the T2i for video below 1600 ISO is the same as a 5D mark II.
So, this weekend, I'm on a two angle shoot of an out door stage show. I'm on one of the two cameras. Classic stage left, stage right set up. Had the T2i on a 3ed tripod next to me facing the audience. I was directing the other cam with radio and remote monitor. Classic two cam tag teem. When i think the audience is going to laugh, i call to b cam to go tight, I go wide then grab the T2i and zoom it in close on some eye candy, in the audience, that i think will respond to the joke. It was so fun to get three angles with a crew of two. Plan on getting another as soon as the 5D has physical audio knobs and a headset output. Then I'll be a four cam, two man crew. Woo Hoo. (with 6 audio tracks, in post, to boot)
A Canon T2i for $800, how can you say no.
BTW; It's clear the T2i for video below 1600 ISO is the same as a 5D mark II.
So, this weekend, I'm on a two angle shoot of an out door stage show. I'm on one of the two cameras. Classic stage left, stage right set up. Had the T2i on a 3ed tripod next to me facing the audience. I was directing the other cam with radio and remote monitor. Classic two cam tag teem. When i think the audience is going to laugh, i call to b cam to go tight, I go wide then grab the T2i and zoom it in close on some eye candy, in the audience, that i think will respond to the joke. It was so fun to get three angles with a crew of two. Plan on getting another as soon as the 5D has physical audio knobs and a headset output. Then I'll be a four cam, two man crew. Woo Hoo. (with 6 audio tracks, in post, to boot)
A Canon T2i for $800, how can you say no.
Here's the challenge: the chips in the DVC80, if I recall, are from the same generation as the original DVX100. Trying to get a DVX100 and a DVX100A to match is next to impossible. You can get close, but not spot-on. The 100B is going to ahve the same issue, if not moreso. This is because of improvements in the chips.
Since you are shooting 60i (not 30i), you can get the two cams in the same approximate neighborhood, but it will take some work in post to "match" them. Just try to shoot everything as flat as possible. You may even need some creative white balance tricks, so get a (cheap or free) Roscolux swatch book and use the swatches of CTO or CTB to correct the white balance of one to the other. This will require minor warm or cool balance, so 1/8 CTO/B should be enough.
Throwing the T2i in is going to complicate things even more. Now we're talking about a chip that is completely different from anything Panasonic offers in its pro-sumer miniDV cams. Again, just shoot flat with as little in-camera image shaping as possible and be prepared to work with it in post.
Since you are shooting 60i (not 30i), you can get the two cams in the same approximate neighborhood, but it will take some work in post to "match" them. Just try to shoot everything as flat as possible. You may even need some creative white balance tricks, so get a (cheap or free) Roscolux swatch book and use the swatches of CTO or CTB to correct the white balance of one to the other. This will require minor warm or cool balance, so 1/8 CTO/B should be enough.
Throwing the T2i in is going to complicate things even more. Now we're talking about a chip that is completely different from anything Panasonic offers in its pro-sumer miniDV cams. Again, just shoot flat with as little in-camera image shaping as possible and be prepared to work with it in post.
Sigh. The good news is the T2i is on a completely different subject and doesn't distract from the main subject that is light completely differently. However, the A and B cam on the main subject need to be right on, as we cut back and forth.
I will go flat and pump it up in post on the Panasonic's for now and save my doe to perches two Rack Focus and zoom mounts that will clamp to some Canon lenses and get two more T2i's and sink sound in post from a 4 track. Then I'll be all HD... ooooh.
I can't believe I'm going Canon. I'll miss you all.
I will go flat and pump it up in post on the Panasonic's for now and save my doe to perches two Rack Focus and zoom mounts that will clamp to some Canon lenses and get two more T2i's and sink sound in post from a 4 track. Then I'll be all HD... ooooh.
I can't believe I'm going Canon. I'll miss you all.
