PRE PRODUCTION HPX300 Hands On 'review'

Barry_Green said:
But then it becomes incumbent on the customer to state what their needs are.
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heh good luck. According to some threads - I want a camera that can shoot wildlife, my brother on his bmx, tvcm, weddings, snowboarding, fairies in the clouds, oh yeah and I want to shoot my first feature this year as well.

:p
 
how did you find the noise in the image? I tested one today and was a little concerned at some of noise in my shots...The detail may have been dialed up as I didn't check as had to hand back the camera after a couple of hours and didn't get to see noise till i got home and uploaded the clips...

v nice cam though
 
Noel Evans said:
heh good luck. According to some threads - I want a camera that can shoot wildlife, my brother on his bmx, tvcm, weddings, snowboarding, fairies in the clouds, oh yeah and I want to shoot my first feature this year as well.

:p
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I agreed with Noel. You got to define your style of shooting and choose a camera and other tool to support and accentuate your work.
 
philip bloom said:
how did you find the noise in the image? I tested one today and was a little concerned at some of noise in my shots...The detail may have been dialed up as I didn't check as had to hand back the camera after a couple of hours and didn't get to see noise till i got home and uploaded the clips...

v nice cam though
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One of the first things we did was change the factory settings on Pedestle from +15 to 0. Dropped the noise like a rock.

For whatever reason the factory was shipping the cameras with the pedestle pumped.

Best,

Jan
 
Yeah, I totally don't understand why the default scene file settings are shipped with a boosted-up master pedestal. I would say to set it at zero at the maximum, and I shot with it at -12 to -20 in Africa and liked the look much better.

That's the first thing I'd recommend to any HPX300 user, is to go through and drop the master pedestal down. I don't know what they were thinking when they raised it.
 
Kholi said:
I have to ask: does anyone outside of the realm of videography, low/no budget filmmaking or web forums even TRULY care about rolling shutter? We analyze a lot here (I do it of course) that most people won't care about in the real world..

The human eye/average human will forgive a lot of what we think we can't. There's already been so many feature films that are plagued with the same things we complain about, I got over CMOS issues a while ago. CCD is still better, IMO, but you take what you can get!

Go P2!!!
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I like that :thumbup: it brings back the "content over rolling shutter " value discussion, in this case I agree: content rules, BUT the footage of the concert with the stropbe lights, really is hard to watch....In the end I am sure, the rolling shutter will be part of life just as mp3 has won over 192 KHz 24 bit audio. Is it good ? probably not but we will have to wait for some clever solution to make CMOS become the universal standard for ALL situations.
 
Good Enough for Sports ?

Good Enough for Sports ?

Was interested in these for sports applications but smear etc is a concern. I shyed away from Sony due to it being MPEG 2 Based. How will these handle fast action sports from any early tests ? Moving the Tripod quickly and capturing action is what we will be doing....
Thanks
 
Depends on how far telephoto you'll be zoomed in. Motion artifacts from the codec are a non-issue on the 300; it uses intraframe-only compression so it won't have any of the MPEG-based concerns of the HDV/XDCAM series. But the rolling shutter is the rolling shutter. If you want to be fully zoomed in and panning fast, this is probably not the camera for you. But if you're talking about full wide angle, it would be fine.
 
Does shooting interlaced or progressive impact the amount of rolling shutter issues? Is one better than the other at masking the impact of RS?
Jim
 
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