Low light test footage

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Thomas Lew

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Got the camera yesterday and by the time I had it figured out it was dark.

Took this footage in a room lit with 2 lamps and poorly at that. Everything came out pretty clear imo. Footage is of my brother juggling 5 balls in his boxers.

http://www.vimeo.com/1826257
 
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Congrats on getting the camera Thomas. I am looking to pick one up soon too. Would be great to see you shoot this juggling with a fast shutter so there's no motion blur.. I know this was low-light test. Maybe shooting it outside would be great. I'd love to see how it handles fast motion, a fast shutter, and see how it resolves color and such.


Are you cutting on FCP? use that Panasonic conversion software?
 
Justyn said:
Congrats on getting the camera Thomas. I am looking to pick one up soon too. Would be great to see you shoot this juggling with a fast shutter so there's no motion blur.. I know this was low-light test. Maybe shooting it outside would be great. I'd love to see how it handles fast motion, a fast shutter, and see how it resolves color and such.


Are you cutting on FCP? use that Panasonic conversion software?
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I am using FCP 6.0.4

As far as panasonic conversion software... I put the card in the card reader which connected to my usb port, then did the log and transfer and FCP imported the clips via pro res 422. I don't think I'm using any conversion software so I guess my answer is no.
 
What I love about it is that the blacks and outlines are still very very clear. I see no grain whatsoever and the "scene" was lit only by 2 regular lamps with shades
 
Panny really bones us Mac people with their stuff and it's sad since more than 50 percent of the people who buy their cams edit on Macs.. It's not a problem when you are on intel macs, and thankfull I have an intel laptop, but my main editing station is a G5 so I won't be able to convert footage on this comp, but I was hoping that Panny would have softwear as a work around. So, for now, I'll have to convert on the laptop and bump the pro res over. What a pain!



1080/30 would be progressive by the way.. I would also like to see some 720p 60 as I think that has a ton of appeal with this camera.
 
Justyn said:
1080/30 would be progressive by the way.. I would also like to see some 720p 60 as I think that has a ton of appeal with this camera.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the proper nomenclature supposed to be (resolution)(progressive or interlaced)/(framerate) i.e. 1080i/30 or 720p/24? I know a lot of manufacturers call regular interlaced 30fps "60", but like calling 1080p "True HD", it's not necessarily correct. Otherwise 1080i/60 is 120 fields/second. I don't know of and camera that is capable of doing that, at lest not in this price range. It just seems to me calling something 1080i/60 when it's 30fps is inconsistent and ultimately confusing. Or is the HMC150 actually capable of shooting 1080i at 60fps?

You know, I'm going to start a new thread on this.
 
Mike Harvey said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the proper nomenclature supposed to be (resolution)(progressive or interlaced)/(framerate) i.e. 1080i/30 or 720p/24? I know a lot of manufacturers call regular interlaced 30fps "60", but like calling 1080p "True HD", it's not necessarily correct. Otherwise 1080i/60 is 120 fields/second. I don't know of and camera that is capable of doing that, at lest not in this price range. It just seems to me calling something 1080i/60 when it's 30fps is inconsistent and ultimately confusing. Or is the HMC150 actually capable of shooting 1080i at 60fps?

You know, I'm going to start a new thread on this.
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1080i/60 = 60(59.94) fields per second which plays back equivilent to 30(29.97) interlaced frames per second, although don't get that confused with 30(29.97) progressive frames per second.
1080p/60 = 60(59.94) progressive frames per second

there techically is no HDTV standard of 1080i/30 because that would infer 30 fields per second.

there is however 1080p/30 and 720p/30 which is 30 progressive frames per second however this does have the same look as 1080i/60.
 
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