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iDV8

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When using the camera for still photos (never thought I'd do that) do you just set it to ONE/SHOT REC? Or is there another setting that I'm not seeing?

Cheers.
 
Stills are recorded as JPEGs to the SD card -- in many cases that's easier than importing the P2 card contents into P2CMS or your NLE and taking stills.
 
What? I don't think the HVX does that! Certainly not with the firmware I'm running!

A lot of consumer cams do that kind of thing, but where'd you hear the HVX would? The HVX uses the Sd card obly for Scene Files, User Files, and firmware updates...

Anyway, if you shoot 1080p/720p as suggested, you get a nice variety of pics to choose from...
 
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There's a PHOTO SHOT button on the remote. I never actually tried it and have the remote disabled in the camera (I don't want a random IR signal to futz with my camera), but AFAIK that is the only way you can use the function.
 
wgzn said:
why dont you just shoot VIDEO at 1080p and export the stills you want from that?
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Because usually if there is a photo function it produces a slightly better picture. Two hours of video and two hours of shooting stills come out to a very different amount of work.

THoff said:
Stills are recorded as JPEGs to the SD card -- in many cases that's easier than importing the P2 card contents into P2CMS or your NLE and taking stills.
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So THoff, if I set it at "one shot rec" is that the setting to record JPEGs to the SD card?
 
THoff - Page 15 of the HVX manual...

DV8 - sorry, it just doesn't work that way...

As for better resolution - an HVX is certainly not going to give you better res than 1080p.
 
Your right. I was just shooting some B-Roll stuff today and an author friend of mine wanted a picture for her new book and she was in a pinch so I thought as long as I had my stuff out she could come by the park and we'd shoot some pictures. Sheesh, I'll never do that again! First off it's like taking pictures with a giant rock. Second, it's like taking pictures with a giant rock. They only want 300 dpi so it should be fine. I only have a film camera and she couldn't wait for all the processing so I offered my HVX. Lesson learned.
 
There are times when I will lift a frame from footage already shot--cool thing is that it's progressive (no fields to screw it up) and I'm not locked into only one specific frame.

Normally though I would use my old 5 mega-pixel sony (been dropped, kicked, etc., etc. a bunch of times) and use that instead...resolution is significantly better. Of course if you only need 300 dpi almost anything will work short of your cell phone.
 
Yea, it was nice to be able to pick frames from the shot. The resolution bites but when I compare it to some other digital photos it not as bad as I had thought so I'm not as stressed about it. I will have to photo shop some of the harshness out but all in all I suppose it did the job.
 
Ummm... dpi is pretty meaningless without a reference to the final printed size. An HVX 1080p still printed at about the width of a DVD case (common for me) gives you about 320 dpi. Doing a landscape 8x10 you get about 130 dpi... not so good. A headshot for a book (usually less than 2 inches wide) should be fine at over 600dpi...
 
dregenthal said:
There are times when I will lift a frame from footage already shot--cool thing is that it's progressive (no fields to screw it up) and I'm not locked into only one specific frame.
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Yeah, I do this all the time for DVD/case graphics, for which it works pretty well. If I have to scale the size up, I often can work a little photoshop magic to make it look OK - perhaps stylized, but nice (especially with SD DVX footage, which I also use for this). Since I don't have a high-end still camera (just various canon elphs and a Panny FZ-5, I find that often the better exposure and focus control (and sensitivity) on the DVX or HVX trumps the resolution differences...
 
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