This shot in the footage seems pretty telling to me. In certain situations, you will get over-exposure and there is little you can do about it. So the question is, how does the camera handle over-exposure, and with this shot I'm pretty pleased. Note that the sun in the top yellows appropriately and on the path, the coloring is different. A far cry from the AF100's general poor handling of highlights. The path seems to have a bit of a "purple" hue, but I would attribute that more to chromatic aberration from the lens on a prototype camera, rather than poor processing or sensor.
I am waiting for them to declare the color science "final" before doing extensive testing and commenting on it. Preliminary testing shows that it is very different from the AF100 and other Panasonics (AC160, etc). My gut feeling is that they've got it right this time, but -- again, until it's final, I cannot say that yet. But it looks good.
It would be a very good idea.
People wanted the full raster images that they apparently were not able to get from 1/3 CCDs and with greater sensitivity. I still like CCDs for a lot of my work and the Panasonic CCD cameras have a nice look to them. That "look" didn't seem to carry over exactly to the CMOS cameras. In fact if the HMC 150 just had a better LCD I would have bought 2 more even if they couldn't manage more resolution.
Still now I think that Panasonic GH4 looks better than Dvx200, I hope everything will be better when Dvx200 is finalized in October.
