Question for Barry regarding Canon's published resolution

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lifepo4

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Canon HF-S100 AVCHD camera (1/2.6" CMOS), here is the specifications:

Effective Pixels
Video: Approx. 6.01 Megapixels
(3264 x 1840) / Still Image: 16:9: Approx. 6.01 Megapixels
(3264 x 1840), 4:3 Approx. 8.02 Megapixels (3264 x 2456)


So with enough illumination, would this camera be able to capture stunningly sharper video than HM150 or Canon 7D (I mean similar to HMC40)? Based on your previous post, even with 30% reduction, it will still have a resolution about 2280x1280, then down sampled to 1920x1080 for encoding. I fully understand that it will have poor performance in low light.

Thanks for your explanation.
 
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I have both this camera and the GH1. The HFS100 certainly delivers a crisp image, perhaps more so than the HDSLRs, although I'd like to see a real res-chart done to it. I'm not sure I follow your math on this one, however, as it's not clear that the consumer video camera line handles video the same way as the HDSLR stuff from Canon.
 
Also with Canon HV10, HV20, HV30, Canon always claim: Total Pixels
Approx. 2.96 Megapixels

What the hell does this number really mean? Is it sth like 1920x1540? Always confused by the pixel numer of any camera or Camcorder. :-(
 
lifepo4 said:
So with enough illumination, would this camera be able to capture stunningly sharper video than HM150 or Canon 7D
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Getting a stunningly sharp image is reliant on getting good focus, this is much more consistently achievable on a pro camcorder with a focus ring like the 150, would you be relying on auto on the canon camcorder?
 
Hi:

This model comes with peaking feature, which produces colored contour of objects that are in focus. It is not as good as Manual Focus on HMC150, but it works. My only question here is since this model has a sensor resolution much higher than 1920x1080, after degradation by Bayer filter, it still should produce an ultra sharp image similar to sth like AG-HMC40.
 
Numbers can give you a clue towards the result, but there are many things that may get in the way so you can't ever rely only on numbers.

I would suspect that the HFS-100 should deliver images as sharp as an HMC40, all the key components are there. But only chart testing or side-by-side can really answer it.
 
The interesting thing is when you look at the 1dmk4 it has amazing high ISO performance compared to the 5dmk2 (for example) despite a smaller sensor and almost as many pixels. From what canon are saying this is largely due to the work they have done to eliminate noise, allowing much higher gain to be applied. If this technology filters through to camcorders maybe we can soon have really sharp, noise free low light images on a 1/3" or even a 1/4" cameras.
 
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