I've had the HD100 for quite some time now, and really love it, really. We bought the letus a few months ago, and that opened up a whole realm of new looks and feels. We love the Letus.
My question is this: We've always been 30p advocates, basically because we haven't really experienced a camera with decent 24p output. My (mediocre) understanding of the process of digital 24p is through the use of 3:2 pulldown and eliminating frames. This to me sounded really sketchy.
I also read in a post today where Barry (also from NC, woot!) mentioned that the vibrating ground glass mixed with HDV compression was bad for quality because of the method HDV uses in compressing. What he said made sense to me and sparked a question, or a couple of them.
First, how have you all found the 24p looking with the HD100 compared to 30?
Second, when using a vibrating GG as with the Letus, you can't really get much above a 60th shutter speed because you start to notice the grain a great deal more. Although it's not really the same as shutter speed, would the changing of the framerate from 30 to 24 help smooth the grain out at all, therefore helping the HDV compression issue? This may be a dumb question but humor me.
And lastly, i just want some of your guys' opinion. My team and i recently entered in a competition for Doritos called "Crash the Superbowl" (www.crashthesuperbowl.com) Our spot is called "Live the Flavor" and is steadily making it's way through the playoffs. I think the production quality is above average, however i feel it could be improved. I would like to know how the pros of this forum would change the way it looks if they could, to help it achieve a higher production value. We shot using the HD100 and LetusHD100 using either a 1.8 35mm lens, or 2.0 20mm lens. No lighting was used besides natural lighting due to the extremely limited resources and time.
Thanks a lot everybody...
My question is this: We've always been 30p advocates, basically because we haven't really experienced a camera with decent 24p output. My (mediocre) understanding of the process of digital 24p is through the use of 3:2 pulldown and eliminating frames. This to me sounded really sketchy.
I also read in a post today where Barry (also from NC, woot!) mentioned that the vibrating ground glass mixed with HDV compression was bad for quality because of the method HDV uses in compressing. What he said made sense to me and sparked a question, or a couple of them.
First, how have you all found the 24p looking with the HD100 compared to 30?
Second, when using a vibrating GG as with the Letus, you can't really get much above a 60th shutter speed because you start to notice the grain a great deal more. Although it's not really the same as shutter speed, would the changing of the framerate from 30 to 24 help smooth the grain out at all, therefore helping the HDV compression issue? This may be a dumb question but humor me.
And lastly, i just want some of your guys' opinion. My team and i recently entered in a competition for Doritos called "Crash the Superbowl" (www.crashthesuperbowl.com) Our spot is called "Live the Flavor" and is steadily making it's way through the playoffs. I think the production quality is above average, however i feel it could be improved. I would like to know how the pros of this forum would change the way it looks if they could, to help it achieve a higher production value. We shot using the HD100 and LetusHD100 using either a 1.8 35mm lens, or 2.0 20mm lens. No lighting was used besides natural lighting due to the extremely limited resources and time.
Thanks a lot everybody...