The end of 35mm adapers and hv20s....

hunter richards said:
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This means killer low-light performance. Too bad it'll only grab 5 minutes / clip.
 
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This doesnt look that bad at all (this is a 720 frame extracted from VIMEO) If it looks this good after vimeo's compression, it will look great out of camera.
 
sinapps said:
This means killer low-light performance. Too bad it'll only grab 5 minutes / clip.
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There's probably a handful of people if not more who do corporate video's, weddings, events, that need to shoot 5minute video's, but so far the longest running One Shot has be recorded at like 8mins...only one I've seen is Children of Men and it runs 7....so 5minutes if plenty for me.
 
found the answer to my earlier question (storage size of video) from http://gizmodo.com/5042209/nikon-d90-official-first-dslr-ever-with-hd-video-recording

It shoots 1280x720p video at 24fps with a 16:9 aspect ratio for up to five minutes, producing around a 600MB file. It's essentially recording the Live View feed (which gets its own button) so focus is locked because the mirror has moved out of the way, and you get mono sound. The major appeal is that it'll work with any of your lenses, so you can do wacky HD clips with a fisheye lens on the (relatively) cheap or be artsy and use a shallow depth of field.
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600mb. not bad. 15+ minutes on a 2gig card. of course, no rack focusing according to the above (locked focus).
 
no way this will replace the hv20/30+adapter. 720, locked focus, and 5 min runs. Not gonna happen. Maybe the next version, or whatever competion brings if this nikon takes off.
 
focus can't be locked because you see rack focusing on some of the shots.
IE the vimeo clip has rack focusing.
i think autofocus is locked
 
Car3o said:
focus can't be locked because you see rack focusing on some of the shots.
IE the vimeo clip has rack focusing.
i think autofocus is locked
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yep. that sounds right. i got some faulty info. locked autofocus is no big deal anyway.
 
This is just a glipmse of things to come. I have no doubt this will be the future, not now though.
Better video quality, audio input, full manual control and a live view lcd and I'm replacing my video cameras for a something like this. It could be cool for donwconverting to SD though...if anyone still wants to do that.
Nonetheless I'm super curious about seeing some videos shot with it...one will have to stock up with SD cards first.
 
i don't think there's enough quality out there now to determine how good it actually is. but, even so, if i wanted to have SD quality, it might be better than my dvx with an adapter. how many of us are using external monitors now? so nothing different there. it has a lot of full manual controls if you look at the screen grabs posted on some of the review sites on sharpness, detail, etc..etc...

as of now, theory is you have control over shutter, exposure and focus. so that's equal to my dvx..some extent. i don't need a 35 and i could probably deal with the lcd seeing how it's only .5inches less. and a lot of photoraphers already use the viewfinder/lcd to focus when taking pictures, i'm sure i could do the same shooting.

lot depends on what you're shooting. mainly just narrative films for me.
 
Here is a link, if it hasn't already been posted.

Chase Jarvis RAW: Advance Testing the Nikon D90

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/


All I can say having the option to shoot 3200asa at 24fps opens a lot of interesting paths in Documentary situations.

Nikon's a good company , if they get good response form this, D-movie mode is going to grow much better over time. And they'll sell even more lenses too!
 
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This is the start of a new era in video cameras. This particular product is not the end-all, but just wait what happens once the full-ripple of this is felt by nikon (and canoy/sony/ect).

This is just testing the waters, what comes later is the professional end-all version.

But for now this is a flash-recording HD/24p video camera with interchangeable lenses AND a super35mm sized sensor! Try to find that any where else for $1000.
 
Someone just quoted this from reduser.net

"The D90 allows you to select the aperture (from wide open to f/8) prior to commencing, then it handles the adjusting of ISO and shutter speed automatically as needed to maintain video brightness as lighting conditions change during recording. To disable automatic exposure adjustment, it's possible to lock exposure prior to beginning the recording."
 
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