In reality, what will the Convergent Design Nano Flash do for me?

Jim Arthurs said:
I may try it again, but using an IRE ramp range of say, 15 to 25 instead of higher up the food chain (bit-wise) at 45-55. As we get closer to the noise floor the amount of bits per f-stop fall off significantly and any difference should be greater. Yet, the closer you are to the noise floor the more... er... noise you have, masking the banding potential.
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Thanks Jim, that would be a great test. It makes sense that low levels would improve. Well, at least this is true in the digitial audio world, you would also think it would apply to video levels as well.
 
EIREHotspur said:
So the long and the short of these tests are that pans are smoother on the XDR files??
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The XDR has nothing to really do with motion itself, but minimizing or essentially visually eliminating compression artifacts with motion with the EX camera (compared to XDCAM codec).

For that matter motion or not, the EX image will be an improved with 4:2:2 and virtually undetectable compression artifacts using the 4:2:2 100mbps long-GOP codec.
 
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The files from the XDR are impressive.
Only thing is of course it triples the amount of storage/archiving space you need for the files.
Hmmmmm......well looks like a return to a HD type configuration on top of the EX3 again sometime in the future for me.
 
EIREHotspur said:
The files from the XDR are impressive.
Only thing is of course it triples the amount of storage/archiving space you need for the files.
Hmmmmm......well looks like a return to a HD type configuration on top of the EX3 again sometime in the future for me.
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Yes, this is true, but disk drive storage is very cheap nowadays. Also, you can use the NexTo (CF to Hard Disk) box to offload the cards. A 500GB version only costs $329, and it includes an eSATA interface.

Mike Schell
 
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