Richard Sutcliffe
Well-known member
I spent sometime playing with the HVX settings in detail yesterday. I haven't done so in a while, but lately, intercutting some DV footage with a DSR 450 I was frustrated by the HVX's sharpness and wanted to improve it for future.
The thick vs thin setting within the scene file is something that I have never really played with, Barry, I remember you basically saying it can just stay on thin during the HVX bootcamp you did here in Wanaka.
However... playing with the settings yesterday I've discovered that the Thick/thin setting has a huge impact on detail and sharpness in the image. The HVX book seems to be saying that thin has the most detail and least flicker but my tests are showing that thick gives a big jump in visible detail and no flicker, thin gives a lot of softening in the detail and flicker in the sharpest edges and highlights.
I had the cam in DV25, profgressive. It was hooked up to a 20' PAL crt broadcast monitor and was shooting leaves and flowers through the open doors. The big difference was visible most in the texture of the green leaves. zoomed in fully, on thick, the texture in the leaves suddenly leapt out. It was quite a surprise.
From Barrys book I had understood that this is a sort of field blending effect and all I can assume is that on thin there are a lot of lines being blended and more detail smudged out whereas in thick there are fewer blends and detail within the fields is retained.
Anyone care to carry out a similar experiment and comment? Barry, can you elaborate on what is happening here?
The thick vs thin setting within the scene file is something that I have never really played with, Barry, I remember you basically saying it can just stay on thin during the HVX bootcamp you did here in Wanaka.
However... playing with the settings yesterday I've discovered that the Thick/thin setting has a huge impact on detail and sharpness in the image. The HVX book seems to be saying that thin has the most detail and least flicker but my tests are showing that thick gives a big jump in visible detail and no flicker, thin gives a lot of softening in the detail and flicker in the sharpest edges and highlights.
I had the cam in DV25, profgressive. It was hooked up to a 20' PAL crt broadcast monitor and was shooting leaves and flowers through the open doors. The big difference was visible most in the texture of the green leaves. zoomed in fully, on thick, the texture in the leaves suddenly leapt out. It was quite a surprise.
From Barrys book I had understood that this is a sort of field blending effect and all I can assume is that on thin there are a lot of lines being blended and more detail smudged out whereas in thick there are fewer blends and detail within the fields is retained.
Anyone care to carry out a similar experiment and comment? Barry, can you elaborate on what is happening here?
