550d resolution /sharness

Too many people moan about sharpness etc when really you've got it good now.

Go shoot with a single ccd chip miniDV camera or worse yet a vhs-c camcorder, then look at what you shoot on now.

Remember, it's not the tools, it's what you do with em.
 
ROCKMORE said:
How do you think the EX3 stands up against higher end HD cameras with similar small sensors?

I'm shooting with an EX3 along side a 550D. The EX3 footage seems quite a bit sharper, but everyone seems to like the 550D footage better, including me. The last shoot I didn't have time to go get my EX3 rental and had to shoot the project with the 550. The client is very happy. I have another shoot with them and the EX3 never even came up.

However high rez or not, the look from these DSLRs is selling.
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Sharper and better are two different things. There's other more subjective elements of a picture which can effect a persons overall perception. Dynamic range, colour reproduction and bokeh can all make a soft picture look amazingly good.
 
Most people have terrible eyesight as it is and can't tell the diff. Especially if they're sitting far enough back.

HVX was never the sharpest camera, but people still flocked to it and still do for a host of other reasons.
 
For me all the soft looking HD tv films and series look far less inspiring than ones with clear sharp pictures.Why in the uk are so many moaning about the quality of freeview HD lately saying where has the sharpness gone, But some programns still look realy sharp.
 
I'm gonna be honest, I think it all depends too on how people use the tool, and know the work arounds. Do you set the sharpness to 0, 4, or 7? Do you under, correct, or over expose? Do you use superflat, neutral, or high contrast picture styles? Do you need to always try for shallow DOF shots, or do you always need a deep DOF? Should you try and edit alot in post, or try to get everything perfect in camera? I think questions like this, being answered, could improve the footage gotten from the Canon series triplefold.

That's just like the thread about aliasing by Barry Green. I saw comparison photos from screen shots by the MKII I think, and the HV10, with the subject being a far back shot of a mobile home. Right away, I could 'picture' a story happening around the HV10's footage (absolutely no aliasing and weirdness, it was a 1000X more cinematic image), yet the MKII looked awful, I couldn't picture it being anything more than an sales photograph in the Peddler. With the HV10, I truly could picture a story happening, it looked like cinema because there were no glitches. The MKII made things look like some redneck was filming a commercial down in Kentucky for Bob's Honest Sales 4 U. What's even more annoying is that my filmmaking style is very documentary/natural, I do enjoy taking a camera out and practically having no set ups or complex thoughts about it and well...the HV10 was that camera that seemingly would enable that.

But where could the MKII or any Canon DSLR triumph in that case? Doing macro/close-up shallow shots instead of far away, deep DOF shots. The 1080P footage I've gotten from my T2i with the close up, angelic shots is perfect in my opinion, way better than the 720P that is on other cameras (I don't know about the GH1 though.) There's just certain things this camera is used for, and certain things it isn't. I think as well, you just gotta know what distance and subject matter that these cameras can do. Get that all down pat, and I don't think the 800$ price tag is bad at all, especially when the only Canon Vixia that can do native 24P is even more expensive than the T2i. Also, how 'different' is the depth of field between the T2i and the HV10? Can you truly get the same DOF without a lens adaptor? If not, the T2i seems a pretty sweet deal there. I've always known that a true movie camera + lens adaptor is 100% the best way to go, in the world of cheap cinema, you don't get better than that. But $800 for the T2i, a device that is arguably easier to carry + use, especially for beginners...I don't think you can beat that, especially as long as you know exactly what to do with it (which that may just also mark the whole 'beginner' thing void.)

But the thing that really makes me want to chuck this brick out the window is the factor of the GH1 hack. I didn't buy the GH1 because of the interlaced stream, but now that that is gone....plus 3/4 lenses....=[. Also, the thing that agrivates me is that I previously didn't think that video footage would be 'stretchable' (like say you needed to convert 720P footage to 2K for cinema purposes), yet I found out that it highly is. 1080P stretches to 2K no problem, I'd bet 720P would too, especially if the footage is crystal clear.
 
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