dory_breaux
Todd Wannabe
well theres HD and then theres HD with that V tacked on to the end. Films resolution is 2k and up, and in reality the crisper the picture the better. Not the sharper, the crisper.
DVX100 Becoming Obsolete Fast
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Captain Pierce
Veteran
dictionary.com said:
Well, since the DVX still seems to be in general use, and many aren't discarding it, I'm going to have to say that it's not obsolete.
It seems to me that these days, when somebody says something is "obsolete," what they really mean is that it's not the newest, sexiest thing on the planet. I had a customer last week ask me if a document camera they were interested in would be "obsolete" in a year or two. I almost laughed, because by that new meaning, the model they were interested in was already "obsolete"--and the reason they were interested in that model was that it was noticeably cheaper than the newest, sexiest one on the planet.
PerroneFord
Deals in Lead
Reading this thread reminds me of something that happened when I was a young fellow in high school. (Still camera related)
I shot a LOT of film back then. Bulk loaded tri-x, in the dark room every day. My senor year, we had gotten a brand new scoreboard donated to us. Same one the Dallas Cowboys had. BIG deal, in a small town. The yearbook teacher game her little pet student (cute blonde with zero talent) the directove to get some good shots of it, and to shoot the color footage for the first 12 pages of the yearbook.
Little miss, proceeded to burn up 25 rolls of professional color film, 36 exposres each, and came back with 4 printable shots. I laughed my A$$ off. So in class, as I was chuckling and shaking my head, she complains to the teacher and then tells me that you can't get a clean shot of the scoreboard becuase of the light motion and patterns. I smiled, loaded about 6 exposures worth of tri-x in a canister, put it in one of the school 's beat up cameras, leaned out the window, and took 3 shots. I went in the darkroom, developed them, went to the print room, and gave handed her 3 5x7s that were printable for yearbook. Then walked out.
Ansel Adams took photos that hang in museums today. And he took them with a camera that had zero electronics. I've watched silent films from the early 1900s that were better shot than some of the garbage leaving hollywood right now. The guys who shot Blair Witch would have DIED for a DVX100.
As the lovely lady said at the Oscars... "Make ART!". And you don't need HD, RED, Panavision, or $50k in lights to do that.
One thing I learned FAST when I started taking video seriously. Video cameras love light. They CRAVE it. The difference between shooting with a couple of practicals in a room, and 10k lumens in a room is literally night and day. I would never have believed how noise free the DVX could be until I started working with enough light for it to ask me for the 1/64 ND filter.
Want nicer video? Light correctly, frame and compose nicely, and move the camera well. You'll be well on your way. And leave HD alone until HDV and low bitrate AVCHD goes away.
I shot a LOT of film back then. Bulk loaded tri-x, in the dark room every day. My senor year, we had gotten a brand new scoreboard donated to us. Same one the Dallas Cowboys had. BIG deal, in a small town. The yearbook teacher game her little pet student (cute blonde with zero talent) the directove to get some good shots of it, and to shoot the color footage for the first 12 pages of the yearbook.
Little miss, proceeded to burn up 25 rolls of professional color film, 36 exposres each, and came back with 4 printable shots. I laughed my A$$ off. So in class, as I was chuckling and shaking my head, she complains to the teacher and then tells me that you can't get a clean shot of the scoreboard becuase of the light motion and patterns. I smiled, loaded about 6 exposures worth of tri-x in a canister, put it in one of the school 's beat up cameras, leaned out the window, and took 3 shots. I went in the darkroom, developed them, went to the print room, and gave handed her 3 5x7s that were printable for yearbook. Then walked out.
Ansel Adams took photos that hang in museums today. And he took them with a camera that had zero electronics. I've watched silent films from the early 1900s that were better shot than some of the garbage leaving hollywood right now. The guys who shot Blair Witch would have DIED for a DVX100.
As the lovely lady said at the Oscars... "Make ART!". And you don't need HD, RED, Panavision, or $50k in lights to do that.
One thing I learned FAST when I started taking video seriously. Video cameras love light. They CRAVE it. The difference between shooting with a couple of practicals in a room, and 10k lumens in a room is literally night and day. I would never have believed how noise free the DVX could be until I started working with enough light for it to ask me for the 1/64 ND filter.
Want nicer video? Light correctly, frame and compose nicely, and move the camera well. You'll be well on your way. And leave HD alone until HDV and low bitrate AVCHD goes away.
justmarvin
Well-known member
What about award winning dvx100b films like November? I don't think it looked like crap when it was projected..? Your thoughts?
JM
dory_breaux
Todd Wannabe
^^ Well shot, and in alot of cases uprezed professionally 
grjohnson
Active member
I think that sums it up.
To all: By the way, since I made my original posting I have received my anamorphic lens and mag viewer and have experimented with it. I have found that the combined optics now somewhat limit my zoom range. That is, there is noticable distortion when either zoomed all the way in, or pulled all the way out. HOWEVER, in between, it is a great picture.
Now, I am going to take my trusty DVX and make some art and stop worrying about it being obsolete. I'm 57 years old and I'm not obsolete. (I hope - smile). I should have given my DVX the same consideration. My bad.
dory_breaux
Todd Wannabe
Ay! are you saying that my wife isnt sexy?!?!?! (my wife being the dvx)