Some new info of HVX200

I'll join that.. D70 Club..

Anyway what I found most interesting is that the guy clearly stated the CCD is *driven* at 1080/60p, and the new DSP handles the task of resizing to 720p. Could this be a clue what resolution a new ccd might have???

well I guess we don't want to have another ccd guessing game anymore, so let's wait until all the specs comes out...
 
saru said:
I'll join that.. D70 Club..

Anyway what I found most interesting is that the guy clearly stated the CCD is *driven* at 1080/60p, and the new DSP handles the task of resizing to 720p. Could this be a clue what resolution a new ccd might have???
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Do you mean that 1080p60 hints at a 1,080 pixels vertically? Probably not. The description says, "Because the area of a pixel is larger than equivalent of 'mega-pixel', we are able to get really clean picture." If the translation is accurate, then one could infer that there are fewer than a million pixels. I would think that Panasonic wouldn't want to go with less than 960 horizontally; however, with 1,080 pixels vertically, the pixel count would be 1,036,800 -- a megapixel array. Most speculation around here is that the CCDs could be 1,280 x 720 (921,600 pixels) or 960 x 720 (619,200 pixels).
 
hmmm, you're probably right about that.
I read the article thoroughly again, and here's another quote;

When designing HVX, the toughest task was to select proper CCDs. In this class of cameras CCDs are 1/3, and it is very difficult to get high sensitivity when CCDs have a mega-pixel count.
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But if that's the case, what does this mean ?

the CCDs are driven at 1080/60p, and DSP handles p-i conversion to 1080i, resizing to 720p, down-conversion to 480p/i.
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It means that 1080i/p picture is NOT up-sampled from 720p, doesn't it ?
But he stated they are using a pixel-shift, so probably

[Non mega-pixel CCD] -> [pixel-shifted to 1080p] -> [DSP resizes it to 720p]

For those who are knowledgeable, does that make sense?
I got confused..
 
Maybe this means that the chips are natively 1080p but to achieve that resolution, the chips use pixel shift. And then 720p and the sd resolutions are subsampled from the 1080p res. If this is the case, it would seem that 1080p would be theoretically the best mode of shooting as it is beiing generated by the pixel shift, but doesn't have to then be subsampled.
 
MovieSwede said:
What are you planning to shot that you need 20X zoom for?

Ive have had more use wideangle than i have with zoom.

Beside buy a 1.5X adapter if you want more zoom.
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I tape shows sometimes. And you really need a good zoom to get up close from the back of the house. I still end up doing most of them with my XL-1 because I can't get close enough with my DVX. Also, my LANC controller is way smoother with my Canon than my controller for my DVX.
 
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