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This test was not done by my company, I stumbled across this on the internet and wanted to post for you guys to see and evaluate.
Before you judge images there are a few factors that come into play in the footage you are about to see.
It seems like there is some very crucial information missing from the HPX's side of things.
The lens used, the gamma settings ("normal" isnt enough information), the Gain setting. The black levels, is DRS on or off, is CAC on or off, is the lens HD or SD, was the back focus set before every test, was the focus of the lens tested on a native HD screen to make sure the subject was in focus. What was the sharpening settings on?
This is all info that is missing that could greatly swing the test in either direction. It seems like the sharpness in the start of the video was due to backfocus./ inaccurate pulling of focus, due to the start not looking like it was focused to the center, but rather to the middle range of the star. that could greatly affect the difference in sharpness between the 2.
I personally think the dynamic range was handled much better on the HPX side of things, but the color was a little off. I hate when people compare footage to a setting of say 5600 between two cameras, instead of just white balancing both cameras to see what they would both look like in their own way of handling the auto white balance range. This would help our eyes not worry about the color and just let us evaluate the things that need to be seen. All color can be corrected, in camera or post, so this really doesn't help.
The Canon seemed very nice when put in low light situations, but there was TONS of info missing from that as well. All we got was an ISO number, this goes same for the HPX in the candle test.
The canon handled just about everything nicely, no real surprises.
The HPX had a few weak points, but I very much believe that was due to bad focus and not the cameras resolution.
I will say that I believe the HPX beat the canon in the second part of the test, in 3200 color range. The HPX looked sharper than the canon in the wide and mid zooms, which is what makes me believe in the first part of the test the softness was due to human error and not the camera. The color was handled much better with the HPX as you can see the white was pure white, while the Canon added its own hue which was a little red on her.
These are just my thoughts, would be curious to see what you guys say as well... I think the canon over all was very nice, but these are very locked down shots and was minimal information given.
One more thing... PLEASE download the clip, you shouldn't evaluate the streaming one, on the bottom right hand side there is a link to the HD mp4 file. Download that by right clicking and "save as" this way you can see the actual file instead of artifacts introduced in the flash streaming one. If you cannot download, then view the streaming video in full screen, but with scaling off, so you can be more accurate.
http://vimeo.com/8268809
Enjoy!
Before you judge images there are a few factors that come into play in the footage you are about to see.
It seems like there is some very crucial information missing from the HPX's side of things.
The lens used, the gamma settings ("normal" isnt enough information), the Gain setting. The black levels, is DRS on or off, is CAC on or off, is the lens HD or SD, was the back focus set before every test, was the focus of the lens tested on a native HD screen to make sure the subject was in focus. What was the sharpening settings on?
This is all info that is missing that could greatly swing the test in either direction. It seems like the sharpness in the start of the video was due to backfocus./ inaccurate pulling of focus, due to the start not looking like it was focused to the center, but rather to the middle range of the star. that could greatly affect the difference in sharpness between the 2.
I personally think the dynamic range was handled much better on the HPX side of things, but the color was a little off. I hate when people compare footage to a setting of say 5600 between two cameras, instead of just white balancing both cameras to see what they would both look like in their own way of handling the auto white balance range. This would help our eyes not worry about the color and just let us evaluate the things that need to be seen. All color can be corrected, in camera or post, so this really doesn't help.
The Canon seemed very nice when put in low light situations, but there was TONS of info missing from that as well. All we got was an ISO number, this goes same for the HPX in the candle test.
The canon handled just about everything nicely, no real surprises.
The HPX had a few weak points, but I very much believe that was due to bad focus and not the cameras resolution.
I will say that I believe the HPX beat the canon in the second part of the test, in 3200 color range. The HPX looked sharper than the canon in the wide and mid zooms, which is what makes me believe in the first part of the test the softness was due to human error and not the camera. The color was handled much better with the HPX as you can see the white was pure white, while the Canon added its own hue which was a little red on her.
These are just my thoughts, would be curious to see what you guys say as well... I think the canon over all was very nice, but these are very locked down shots and was minimal information given.
One more thing... PLEASE download the clip, you shouldn't evaluate the streaming one, on the bottom right hand side there is a link to the HD mp4 file. Download that by right clicking and "save as" this way you can see the actual file instead of artifacts introduced in the flash streaming one. If you cannot download, then view the streaming video in full screen, but with scaling off, so you can be more accurate.
http://vimeo.com/8268809
Enjoy!
