Videomaker tutorial on Shutter

[skippyfetus]

I was reading in the latest issue of Videomaker an article about shutter speed in video. No new info really, but I found this sidebar interesting and raised a few questions with me:

"When you drop the shutter speed to 1/30 or below, you are loosing every other line of resolution in your camcorder"

This is kinda confusing... does that mean that a camcorder skips a field in 60i when set to 1/30? I guess that's the only way it could be 1/30 because if it didn't skip that next field, it would be 1/60 right?

 

[Barry_Green]

Re: Videomaker tutorial on Shutter

The Sony cameras do that. They double fields so you get half resolution.

The DVX in progressive mode doesn't do that, it continues to deliver full screen resolution.

I don't know if the DVX in interlaced mode drops fields or not, I don't have a 100A so I can't test the slow-shutter speeds. But I'd guess that it probably does.