ALL: CMOS issues: flash banding, etc..?

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firehawk

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I've been reading about problems with CMOS sensors and wondering just how significant they are. I'm still using 1/3 and 1/4 3CCD SD cameras so it's all unknown to me.
I'm reading about flash banding problems with shooting weddings and theater events.
Rolling shutter problems with shooting Automobiles and Aircraft.

A lot of what I shoot are weddings and theater/dance. But I also shoot automotive events involving fast cars in which I have cameras shooting from ground but also from camera cars and even mounted on vehicles.
Am I in for a world of hurt when I upgrade to HD CMOS cameras? How real of a concern are these problems I am reading about?
My budget is basically strains $3k-6k for a camera, so 1/2 CCD cameras are not an option by any stretch of the imagination. And older 1/3 CCD HD cameras lack the low light ability of the newer ones (important in weddings) so I don't think buying an older CCD camera is the answer.
 
It looks to me like CCD is on the way out, even in very expensive cinema cameras, so there probably won't be any choice soon. The current crop of CMOS sensors have faster readout that the older ones so skew is less significant now, and I expect in a few years will get even better. There are also tricks you can do to minimise skew when shooting, like tilting the camera slightly in the opposite direction and panning with the subject.
 
I'm reading about flash banding problems with shooting weddings and theater events.
Rolling shutter problems with shooting Automobiles and Aircraft.

A lot of what I shoot are weddings and theater/dance. But I also shoot automotive events involving fast cars in which I have cameras shooting from ground but also from camera cars and even mounted on vehicles.
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Hi Firehawk,

Having done a wedding with the AG-AC130 on the weekend, although it was an outside wedding the photgrapher was using flash for fill during the family photos, and I've just watched them through and not once did it "split frame", so I don't think anyone will even notice anything but a normal flash.

We have been caught with EX 1s and a bad school concert where there were 150 camera flashes in the first 5 minutes of footage, so we always tell the headmaster to announce NO flash photography! With dance concerts they are not allowed either.

If you watch any news service with a politician doing a doorstop interview, you will see plenty of split frame flashes, but no-one seems to care less. Viewers don't even notice.

If you do a search when the AF100 first came out, the very first released footage was around a race track where the camera was attached to the car as well as other shots, (some taken with 5DMk2 I think, but each shot is identified with the camera taking it).

For a rolling shutter camera it was very very good, and I believe these cameras have the same guts as the AF100.

Aircraft I can't help you with, but I feel unless you are shooting propeller aircraft you will have very little to worry about.

This camera certainly seems to handle flashes much better than our EX 1s.

Cheers,

Vaughan
 
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