Originally Posted by Laurence Bannister

Hi all, just a really quick question (hopefully not to dumb of a question. Does one get more usable information out of 50i than 25p. I feel I can convert 50i to 25p quite well using Donald Graft's Smart deinterlace filter so my question is not so much relating to the intendend final media. My question is that if I can convert 50i to 25p (ignoring the quality of the conversion) why would I not just shoot in 50i to get the maximum amount of information and then just "discard" as required?