JVC GY-HD101E in the House
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Ramon Boutviseth
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any footage? I'd like to see.
stephenlnoe
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do you have a place to drop some raw footage?
How good is the focus?
how about a screen grab?
how about a screen grab @ 60 lux (incandescent indoor)
is it comfortable to hold and is it steadied easily?
how about color adjustments, is there a way to make saturation, gamma, offset type adjustments in camera?
Is the mic quiet on the camera or in other words, when you monitor through headphones does the mic pick up the tape motor sound?
will it fit on a standard tripod shoe?
are the f stops secure when changing the iris?
how about the focus assist, is it as good as they claim?
***Did JVC provide a capture program disk with the camera to accomodate the 24PHDV?
That should start it out.
How good is the focus?
how about a screen grab?
how about a screen grab @ 60 lux (incandescent indoor)
is it comfortable to hold and is it steadied easily?
how about color adjustments, is there a way to make saturation, gamma, offset type adjustments in camera?
Is the mic quiet on the camera or in other words, when you monitor through headphones does the mic pick up the tape motor sound?
will it fit on a standard tripod shoe?
are the f stops secure when changing the iris?
how about the focus assist, is it as good as they claim?
***Did JVC provide a capture program disk with the camera to accomodate the 24PHDV?
That should start it out.
Until we get another 6-6 pin firewire cable (had to go out on a hire) we can't check it out on the computer - but here are some entries from the Camera Process menu screen:
Master Black; Detail; V/H Balance; H Frequency; V Frequency; Skin Detect & Level; Black (stretch or compress); White clip; knee & Level; Motion Smooth
Then in Advanced Process
Cinema Mode (on off) "Turns the gamma characteristics and color matrix close to the characteristics of a movie screen"
Color Matrix (off Standard Cinema) & Adjust
Gamma (Off Standard Cinema) and Level
Color Gain - Off (sets the video to black and white); Increase the number (makes colors more dense); decrease the number (makes colors less dense)
White Paint <R> - Adjusts the Red component when in AWB
White Paint <B> - Adjusts the Blue component when in AWB
Skin Color Adjust
Then you have your color matrix adjust screens, skin color adjust screen, etc, etc, etc.
Master Black; Detail; V/H Balance; H Frequency; V Frequency; Skin Detect & Level; Black (stretch or compress); White clip; knee & Level; Motion Smooth
Then in Advanced Process
Cinema Mode (on off) "Turns the gamma characteristics and color matrix close to the characteristics of a movie screen"
Color Matrix (off Standard Cinema) & Adjust
Gamma (Off Standard Cinema) and Level
Color Gain - Off (sets the video to black and white); Increase the number (makes colors more dense); decrease the number (makes colors less dense)
White Paint <R> - Adjusts the Red component when in AWB
White Paint <B> - Adjusts the Blue component when in AWB
Skin Color Adjust
Then you have your color matrix adjust screens, skin color adjust screen, etc, etc, etc.
stephenlnoe said:
No
Focus is what you would expect from a professional lens...servo rocker is slow and smooth, not much grunt there probably, but it's nice.
Maybe in a day or two
Maybe a day or two
Yep - better than the z1 for sure. And even well balanced on the shoulder with the small battery.
Still charging the batteries
Put in a standard sachtler snap plate, and mounted direct for tripod. Wouldn't recommend it because of the tail over-hang. But it is indeed possible.
?
It's good...it's like coloured peeking in the view finder...turns the view finder from colour to black and white when this function is turned on.
no. Waiting to hear from blackmagic design later in the week to see what they're up to.
stephenlnoe
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The f stop question again.
What I meant was, when you twist the iris and change f stops does it 'click' into position?
What I meant was, when you twist the iris and change f stops does it 'click' into position?
questions...
how is it low light? key?
is there a black and white balance... , is it a professional toggle?
overal build quality??? what is metal and what isn't? I really want to know where the plastic is>
the zoom,,, can it vary zoom speed, as in dial the nature of how fast it can respond?
how wide is it in reference to a 35mm camera?
thanks for everything.
how is it low light? key?
is there a black and white balance... , is it a professional toggle?
overal build quality??? what is metal and what isn't? I really want to know where the plastic is>
the zoom,,, can it vary zoom speed, as in dial the nature of how fast it can respond?
how wide is it in reference to a 35mm camera?
thanks for everything.
stephenlnoe said:
No, the lens is an exact copy/replica of a broadcast lens the iris moves smoothly between 16,11,8,5.6,4,2.8,2,1.4
Zoom markings 5.5, 10, 20, 88
Focus 1, 1.2, 1.5, 2, 3, 5, 10m
3.3 ,4,5,7,10,15,30 feet
Back focus and macro controls.
Front lens diameter is 85mm for matte box mounting, don't have any available at the moment to confirm exact fit with Chrosziel. 82mm for UV.
We also have the Fujinon wide angle adapter and as one of our crew stated 'Is there a wide angle adapter for the wide angle adapter?'
I would be looking to Century to offer something as good as the HD adapter for the Z1, which is supurb.
Servo rocker control is a bit underpowered but to be expected. Lens can be controlled by a 8pin Fujinon Servo which plugs into the servo handgrip.
Major design omission is the lack of a servo rocker incorporated into the top handle. Would of been great.
caldwell said:
This from Fujinon but not official calculations:
reckon 1/3" 16:9 will be close to 7.37mm W x 4.15mm H which means…
5.5mm focal length is 67.39 (similar to 7.2mm on a 2/3" 16:9)
and
3.5mm is 92.57 (similar to 4.6mm on a 2/3" 16:9)…
WCV-82SC Wide Angle adapter 4.5-72mm MOD 0.67m
No speed control on servo
No black balance function
White balance is set by a rubber nipple front left of camera (looking forward), toggle on left side prst, a,b
Note that the record switch is on the left side also. Not right front like typical broadcast cameras. Zebra toggle is where you would normally find the Electronic shutter toggle switch.
Build quality is excellent. This is the best camera design I have seen, of the type.
Plastic: VF, battery suuround, lens bayonet securing ring.
stephenlnoe
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Thanks for the info,
@ approx 60 lux with gain @ max what kind of noise is present?
@ approx 60 lux with open iris and no gain in 24P with shutter speed set to 30, are the blacks black without noise? What I'm looking for is lattitude with an open iris. If you bring this image into you NLE and boost luminance do you get noise in the blacks or do they stay at 0 IRE?
@ approx 60 lux with gain @ max what kind of noise is present?
@ approx 60 lux with open iris and no gain in 24P with shutter speed set to 30, are the blacks black without noise? What I'm looking for is lattitude with an open iris. If you bring this image into you NLE and boost luminance do you get noise in the blacks or do they stay at 0 IRE?
athouguia
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I know the batteries are new and haven't reached their full performance yet, however how long is the batterie life?
How good is the viewfinder's image and what size is it, is the image larger than on the DVX's viewfinder?
Is it better balanced than a XL2?
Thank you for your patience on answering all our questions...!
How good is the viewfinder's image and what size is it, is the image larger than on the DVX's viewfinder?
Is it better balanced than a XL2?
Thank you for your patience on answering all our questions...!
Battery life of the JVC batteries - Chewed, munched, spat out. She's a hungry we beasty. Anton Bauer battery solution lookin' mighty appealing.
Takes a little while to get used to it being on your shoulder (if novice) as gusts of wind and muscle spasms will create lots-o-movement mainly because it's so light - so novice camera people need not apply.
Everyone that has viewed smooth motion filter prefer it turned off.
Need to have your eye cupped right over the view-finder - light leakage.
Focus assist went a bit crazy when Depth of Field was massive (i.e. nigh on everything in focus).
Pictures look good though - boss was the one using the camera. He went out to a local park, filmed some birds, trees, trams, water. He managed to get a few shots relatively stable and in focus...and exposed.
Still have to suck it into the computer...HDV 25p. You can ask for shots, but we don't have any to give you as yet.
Takes a little while to get used to it being on your shoulder (if novice) as gusts of wind and muscle spasms will create lots-o-movement mainly because it's so light - so novice camera people need not apply.
Everyone that has viewed smooth motion filter prefer it turned off.
Need to have your eye cupped right over the view-finder - light leakage.
Focus assist went a bit crazy when Depth of Field was massive (i.e. nigh on everything in focus).
Pictures look good though - boss was the one using the camera. He went out to a local park, filmed some birds, trees, trams, water. He managed to get a few shots relatively stable and in focus...and exposed.
Still have to suck it into the computer...HDV 25p. You can ask for shots, but we don't have any to give you as yet.
SPZ said:
Matt is the FCP guy and can expand on what is exactly happening there. As an observer I'd say you hit on the head with: 'A slowed down progressive clip in FCP with frame blending (ie with blurry in betweens)?'
Matt took some test footage into FCP at 30p with smooth motion on and did some stop frame stuff and it looked like a blurry mess. It certainly didn't look like interlace and the eye to brain message was 'this doesn't look right'
I'll be interested to read others opinion on smooth motion.
Righto - I've finally plugged the camera in to the computer.
1st - HDV 720p30 - All good for 30p footage. It cannot see 25p footage...at all. It's non-existent. It sees the VTR, I see timecode - no footage.
Not having any luck getting any other 720p25 settings working as yet...did get an interesting effect when I tried the Apple intermediary codec - everything sped up.
I've been trying going in to FCP via Component (when HDV didn't work), but I still can't see anything as yet. Damned if I know (it is getting late in the day).
On a plus side, DV 25p goes in sweet via component.
1st - HDV 720p30 - All good for 30p footage. It cannot see 25p footage...at all. It's non-existent. It sees the VTR, I see timecode - no footage.
Not having any luck getting any other 720p25 settings working as yet...did get an interesting effect when I tried the Apple intermediary codec - everything sped up.
I've been trying going in to FCP via Component (when HDV didn't work), but I still can't see anything as yet. Damned if I know (it is getting late in the day).
On a plus side, DV 25p goes in sweet via component.
Picture Quality:
Before leaving work this evening, I finally had a chance to watch the footage play back full screen on an HP 23" LCD.
It isn't as "clean" as the Z1 - there is still some noise in the image, though not to the same extent as the pre-production model. Not sure what the next batch will be like, but these have a "grain" to them...so to speak. Possibly not quite as rich as the z1 with colours.
Having said that I don't mind what noise there is (not "black" noise, overall picture "noise"), the colours are not "DV" looking, and the response from the others in the room was positive.
Will try to get one of the camera guys here to write a review - he knows more than we do
Before leaving work this evening, I finally had a chance to watch the footage play back full screen on an HP 23" LCD.
It isn't as "clean" as the Z1 - there is still some noise in the image, though not to the same extent as the pre-production model. Not sure what the next batch will be like, but these have a "grain" to them...so to speak. Possibly not quite as rich as the z1 with colours.
Having said that I don't mind what noise there is (not "black" noise, overall picture "noise"), the colours are not "DV" looking, and the response from the others in the room was positive.
Will try to get one of the camera guys here to write a review - he knows more than we do
thanx for ur help _MR_ i am sure u will be famous if u post Footage, people are starving for the hd100 clips. so who ever post there footage will be download worlwide and will be in there screen and remembered.
rajan
so let us wait for the first video clip we will get soon.
thanx again
rajan
so let us wait for the first video clip we will get soon.
thanx again