Varicam 35 Help/Forum?

[slipstrea808]

Recently we got in a Varicam 35 at work and I was wondering if there was a forum that any one new of for it yet? I've been playing with it, generally it all makes sense but I had some questions about actual "varicam part" of it in regards to the ramping speed knob. I figure either its

A: I'm an idiot and am missing something obvious

or

B: Other people are having the same issue and it is known and hopefully is going to be fixed.

So I just wasn't sure if someone could point me in a general direction. If not that is understandable. Thanks ahead of time!

 

[Run&Gun]

The manual is available for download on Panny's site, if you don't already have one. My rep said that it's more or less "still being written/added to". That's why there are so many "blank" pages in the PDF.

And let us know how you like it and how it performs once you get some quality time with it in the real world. I'm curious how the camera handles flashes. Is it standard rolling shutter flash banding results, or have they done any "magic" to eliminate or mitigate it since the opted to not go global?

 

[harddrive]

I'm curious how the camera handles flashes. Is it standard rolling shutter flash banding results, or have they done any "magic" to eliminate or mitigate it since the opted to not go global?

You don't need magic, many cameras have compensation circuitry to minimise the effect - though not cure it entirely - but there's a big BUT.

They may work quite well for much of the time, but CAN give incorrect corrections sometimes. They'll "correct" an image that doesn't need it, "correct" something which is actually part of the image. For something like news, they may be a good idea (overall), but for the sort of work the Varicam is aimed at (with likely a lot of post) a far better approach is to leave the in-camera circuitry "off" and apply any flash band correction in post software. That way, any correction can either be accepted or rejected - if done in camera, end of story, you live with it right or wrong.

That said, whether in software or in-camera, the compensation processing may improve matters but can never be as good as a global shutter.