andromeda

As I said, you can output 4:4:4 color from a Pixelvision camera, but it will still be black and white.

True 4:4:4 color requires that you can capture the actual red, green and blue values for every pixel, which requires that your CCDs have at least as high a resolution as the output signal. Claiming to produce 4:4:4 color at HD resolutions when you have SD pixels is silly... as you demonstrated yourself, you have blocks of four pixels with the same red, green or blue value: the fact that one of those changes in each pixel gives you somewhat higher resolution, but doesn't give you anything like true 4:4:4 color even if you're recording the red, green and blue values of each pixel.
 
I would definitley go for the Andromeda. It looks nearly as good (in some ways, better), and it's less than half the price (way way less if you already have a DVX). There was a huge Andromeda discussion a while back, I'd read that, and their website, because there's always a lot of misinformation going around about their methods.
But I'm mainly a narrative shooter, if you're a doc shooter the XLH1 makes way more sense. At the same time, the Andromeda still lets use you shoot tape - but it's just regular DVX footage.
 
Is it true that the Andromeda will only do 24fps? If so, that's a pretty big limitation. Not to mention the practicality of having a camera with a "normal video" look, it's nice to have 1080i for very good slow motion effects.
 
Well a 1 CMOS camera wouldnt either be able to resolve full 4:4:4 but no one complains on the Canon EOS400D RAW format capability?

The point is that if you know how to use the CCD redout in pixelshift you will be able to calculate new colorvalues by interpolating the data you have. What the final resolution will be is another question, but im very impressed with the Andromeda picture quality.


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