Cheapest FullHD CCD camera

So basically what I'm getting from this post is that there are no hand-held CCD cameras with full resolution chips?
 
I don't think there's ever been a three-chip 2/3" handheld camera. Heck, until the EX1, there'd never been a three-chip 1/2" handheld camera.

Maybe they could make a single-chip handheld camera... but the size of three 2/3" chips and the associated prism, that would seem to make it an impractical choice for handheld.
 
I can even live with just one CCD. Point is, CMOS is completely untenable for event work with flashes. It just looks like s**t. And while there are certainly folks out there producing s**t, I don't like s**t and have no plans to produce s**t. Which means CMOS is completely out of the question, and CCD is a must.

Don't care what size. Don't care how many. I just want a full res CCD in a hand-held camera. The event industry desperately needs as many such models as possible (because quite frankly, the guys out there who are producing **** with CMOS cameras make us all look bad).
 
Does any client actually complain about CMOS rolling shutter footage and request for you to specifically shoot with something that minimizes it? Who actually cares, you or the people who give you money?
 
Have you guys ever used a proper CMOS camera for any of this stuff?

I use my ex1r on cars all the time, have never had a problem with rolling shutter. I use a pretty cheap single point mount that vibrates like hell as well, if you are as profesional as you sound I'm sure you're dealing with proper 3-point suction mounts that more or less eliminate vibration. I've shot on an original lotus super 7, porsche 911 turbo, a 240sx, and almost an original gt40. Never had a problem with jello! I've even duct taped it to the front of a dirtbike, and suctioned it to a piece of sheet metal, which was literally ziptied to the rollbars of a sports utility kart. Don't judge me.



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Daniel Krnac said:
I understand and I prefer smaller camera over shrapness and even lower res CCD (I was even considering WVGA resolution camera). ... HMC150 or JVC HM100 really seem like a great choice. ... The HM100 is, at the moment, my favourite camera of choice - ligth, nimble, picture is nice, conectivity is good.
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I owned the HM100 for about four months. It is a great camcorder, which is very close to be perfect but there are two major drawbacks to it: its image stabilization practically does not exist, and its sensitivity is worse than of any other 1/4-inch camera. If these issues are not important to you then get it: it is small, feels durable, uses cheap SD cards, shoots XDCAM EX or QuickTime, no jello or flash banding. Also, according to French test, its 1080p mode is actually usable and shows higher resolution than 720p mode, while the HMC150 has pretty much the same resolution in both modes.

Ultimately I sold it and bought the HMC40. I am looking at the footage I shot this Saturday and I see that I traded one evil for another: the HMC40 has much better image stabilizer so I can shoot handheld, but I can see jello artifacts even on 60p video, and 24p should be even worse. There is no perfect camera.

TheReverend said:
You are saying you are avoiding the idea of CMOS because of rolling shutter issues. And you said that, "Half the time, the camera is mounted on a sports car and the vibration is simply making some of the footage unusable for broadcast", and "the smaller the device is, the better."

I'm assuming you must have never heard of this:
GoPro - HD HERO

If you shoot outdoors in sunlight, they are absolutely PHENOMENAL!
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That was a company's demo, and this is a real thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8nptFx1jug

Though I do not know for sure that they used GoPro, but they obviously used CMOS-based cameras.
 
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