Total switch to dslr?

Ben_B said:
I feel the same way about moiré ;)
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And sure, we could go back and forth, derailing this thread in the process. But with the 7D/5DII, now I KNOW when moire and aliasing could be a big problem, and I do my best to work around it. With the GH1, all we found was a setting where we didn't see the color-shifting happen, but that didn't mean it couldn't, and it gave us no idea why it was happening in the first place.

When I know what causes the problem, I can minimize it. When I don't, and nobody else seems to, that's a problem I can't work around comfortably.
 
Thanks for the many great responses. Have any of you used the D90 for video? The recent zacuto films/test show it, and it doesnt seem to be quite as nice as the canons. Does the d90 suffer from the various moire/shifting issues of the canons? It would be nice to not move systems but from waht I understand, nikon is a little behind in the video scene right now
 
Ben_B said:
Use the GH1 as B-cam, keep it around your neck at all times, do whatever you need to do with it...dual wield and the DVX (badass!!) and get your shots.
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I sometimes do something like this, only leaning more toward using the DSLR (T2i) as the A cam and keeping an HV30 in a small bag over my shoulder that I can snap on if I can't get the shot with the DSLR. But you can lose the shot in the time it takes to switch cams and frame up.

This also reminds me of another practical issue for run and gun settings not yet mentioned with DSLRs in this thread, which rears its ugly head if the lens you've selected doesn't have enough reach as the needs of the shoot change... or the opposite, that Nikon 80-200 2.8 that has been giving you something looking like 16mm film at 15' can't even focus when your subject moves to within 5'. Now you have to swap out the lens or back away from your subject to shoot (something which you don't always have the opportunity to do).

Either way, you can lose the shot.

But, I still favor pushing the DSLR into every situation I can. When I can I use a second shooter on an A1 picking up the wide and medium shots, and I have all the fun (and do all the work), tight with the T2i.
 
From experiance I would only use only a DSLR for Films/Ads where everything is controled. You have time to set focus markers, you can practice th shot through and through.

For documentrys/uncontrolled enviorments I would use the DSLR as a B cam and a Camcorder as the main camera due to things such as focusing. Its very hard to pull focus perfectly if you havent preped the shot before hand. I have recently been practising with some Follow focuses while waiting for mine. They do make the job hell of a lot easier but still you need to know where you set the focus too, now there are work arounds such as lowering the apature but still, its not great.
 
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