60D or AF-100

[Alpha Beta Omega]

At first my experience with the AF was you would never overexpose anything because it will look bad. But as I've got to learn how this camera works I can now go into overexposure and it'll still look good.

 

[Danielvilliers]

well, sorry then

have a link for some newer tests?

I think the day we will see some professional test Dr, rez, etc. between the GH2 and Af-100 those arguments between the two will be settled and the subject won't come out every-time and create endless debate. But guess what, nobody seems to have the time to do it.

 

[Rick Burnett]

I think the day we will see some professional test Dr, rez, etc. between the GH2 and Af-100 those arguments between the two will be settled and the subject won't come out every-time and create endless debate. But guess what, nobody seems to have the time to do it.

I don't think it will, personally. I've seen resolution charts shot with the GH2 and AF100, and I've studied the results. Then I've seen both cameras go shoot real world situations, and again, seen different results, and that left me scratching my head. The GH2 performs very well on the circular resolution chart and even gives the impression that it outperforms the AF100 in my opinion. Yet, in real world situations, I can easily make the GH2 alias before the AF100 aliases. Why?

I've also noticed that if you study the aliasing not only black/white charts, but color charts, you see more differences that you might not even have known about. This is true between the FS100 and AF100 as well, whereas I believe from the tests I have seen, the AF100 has a bit more chroma resolution, yet, when I shoot both cameras, it's not something I notice in my shots, only on charts. This is why I just don't put a huge amount of energy into believing charts as much as shooting the camera at tricky things I know I am going to shoot and THEN evaluating the results. I've seen rez charts that show color aliasing on the Alexa http://www.theblackandblue.com/2010/12/31/red-epic-vs-arri-alexa-vs-canon-7d/ (click on the image to get a 1:1 and you can see the chroma aliasing of the Alexa) yet, I've obviously never seen it on any shows or movies shot with it (yet).

Sensors, in my opinion, are getting harder to evaluate because the performance is dependent on so many different variables with what happens to the light that enters. The OLPF, the filter array, the demosaic, the reduction from higher resolution to lower, the color space, the compression. The ONLY way to know for sure is get ahold of each camera and shoot. I did that with the 7D, GH2, AF100 and FS100. All 4 have their strengths and weaknesses, price included.

 

[adanac]

I wouldn't necessarily consider sound if you're shooting a feature and really want to stay with the DSLR. The production mixer you hire will record to his recorder.