aliasing and moire?

[NeedCreative]

Speaking of window screens...



This example is particularly bad (FS100). One thing you notice however is the lack of chroma moire, which is nice at least. The 5D/7D shows horrible chroma aliasing and moire on the simplest of patterns. It's easy to forget that all video cameras can do this with extremely fine patterns, especially CMOS sensors. Have to go to film to get rid of it completely. The thing is, DSLRs showed it on relatively "chunky" patterns like bar codes, horizons, water, bricks, etc. where the video cams have no issues. The aliasing & moire points on the true video cams is with extreme detail. I'm tired but I think that's the gist. Razz explained it best above.

 

[David G. Smith]

Speaking of window screens...

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This example is particularly bad (FS100). One thing you notice however is the lack of chroma moire, which is nice at least. The 5D/7D shows horrible chroma aliasing and moire on the simplest of patterns. It's easy to forget that all video cameras can do this with extremely fine patterns, especially CMOS sensors. Have to go to film to get rid of it completely. The thing is, DSLRs showed it on relatively "chunky" patterns like bar codes, horizons, water, bricks, etc. where the video cams have no issues. The aliasing & moire points on the true video cams is with extreme detail. I'm tired but I think that's the gist. Razz explained it best above.

Yeah, the Canon ASP-C cameras are horrendous, compared to the FS100. I just moved from down south where dang near everything was made of brick. It was a nightmare to shoot outside.

 

[David G. Smith]

I just bought the german video magazine "Videoaktiv Digital" and they meassure the vertical resolution at 671 line pairs (horizontal 660 lp)

Isn´t that a little low (below 720p) ? They also write the F3 resolves over 300 lp more!

Edit: Jesus! A few pages further they test the new Canon Legria consumer camcorders. The resolve 794 and 960 line pairs....For 750 and 900 Euros...
The Canon 600 D was measured at 704 lp vertically. More than the FS100 ?! This can´t be right!

You may want to post that as a separate thread; I am sure that it will get a lot of responses. I am of the opinion that there is much more to pretty pictures than test chart resolution results, and the FS100 has a whole bunch of that much more.