The HVX300 - This Camera is Great for . . ?

The stock lens on the 300 series camera does breathe a lot. It is something I can live with though considering it is essentially a free lens. You get what you pay for. Put a $6,000.00 ot $7,000.00 lens on the 301 and it won't breathe but then you have a $15k package. That lens, even with the breathing, looks a lot better than the lenses on the 170 or the EX1. And I have seen footage from the 300 with a $20k HD lens and it looks amazing if you want to rent one for special shoots.

Dan
 
Yep, that has nothing to do with the 300, it has to do with cheap lenses in general. Look at an HPX500, the inexpensive CAC lenses all do that. Or the JVC HD100/HM700 series. Breathing is part and parcel of making a cheap HD lens.

Fixed-lens camcorders don't breathe, they work differently. But on the interchangeable-lens camera, you're going to see breathing.
 
My Fujinon HA18X7.6BERM and XA17X7.6BERM both breath and the former is not a cheap HD lens. The only HD ENG zooms that don't breathe, be they Canon or Fujinon are the ones with the big, bloated focus barrels that have cams in them.
 
Panasonic gives guidelines in their sample video, like follow the movement, pan right to left. The filmmakers handbook also, like pan slower, blur the background, follow a person moving through the scene, avoid vertical lines in background.
I have a long job where I have to break all these rules, like pan in empty spaces where the vertical lines on background have to be in focus and well lit, and nobody is moving through the scene.
Just by switching to 720p the problem is gone, like not mimimized, but disapeared. So, you don't need to more guidelines if you can take 720p in the trade.
I am not sure, but seems like 720p has quite a lot of image information, as it is the full image an not just half of the lines like in 1080i. Anyways, I cannot complain about the quality.
Client is amazed about the sharpness and colors of the image, and in this point it is what matters to me most.
 
How much DOF can you realistically get this with camera? I'm using a 150 and DOF is non existent.
 
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