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Michael Pappas December 8th, 2005 03:59 AM

Saw the XLH1 today. Wow! Canon is a class Act too!
 
The Canon XLH1 is an amazing camera..... I must say that the XLH1 is a mini Cinealta. It was so nice to see friends from canon Joe Bogacz, Mike Zorich and Tim Smith. I have a lot of respect for Canon and how they run their business. The XLH1 is far and above the best HD camera under 10k in all around offerings. The clock maker footage was excellent. It didn't stop there. The Italy footage that was shot in 1080i 60 was beautiful. It was filmed in HDV and was mouth watering. What's funny is, the HDV Codec works the least best with interlace video. In progressive video HDV shines; yet the italy footage looked amazing and it being shot in interlace mode not progressive. I now know how well the H1 will do in HDV 24F progressive mode. Wow! Kudos to Canon for an excellent tool that is top notch.....

Michael Pappas
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Barlow Elton December 8th, 2005 12:00 PM

What's even funnier is Canon's footage looked better in Panasonic's HD format (playing from a 1200a deck) than Panasonic's own cameras!

Kevin Wild December 8th, 2005 02:09 PM

Glass IS important. Sounds (and looks) like that new HD lens from Canon is great.

KW

Shannon Rawls December 11th, 2005 12:13 PM

Good job mike. Good report...and Good photos from B&H yesterday. Wish I could have been there and at the DV Expo. I'm at the HDV Festival checking out dvinfo.net during my down time.

Peace!

- ShannonRawls.com

Peter Moore December 15th, 2005 04:59 PM

Amen. I've been playing with some of the posted clips. If you can't make a convincing looking big screen film with this camera you don't know what you're doing. With a minimal amount of gamma and color correction the footage looked as good as anythign I've ever seen on the big screen.

John C Cha December 20th, 2005 11:35 PM

It was not a matter of if but when.
 
It seems that other camera options have certain data storing advantages, but going to HD tape also has its advantages. Is mini-CineAlta an accurate description of the XLH1?

Chris Hurd December 21st, 2005 12:23 AM

Mini-Alta? Naw, that's too much like Minolta.

I've heard people call it The Black Knight, Black Beauty, the Little Cine-Alta.

Still looks like a chainsaw to me though. Definitely a solid hit by Canon from the way things are going.

Nick Hiltgen December 21st, 2005 12:54 AM

Quasi-alta. But I like the chain-saw, name.

Peter Moore December 21st, 2005 08:31 AM

Semi-Alta. Quasi-Alta. The margarin of Alta. The Diet Coke of Alta - "just one calorie!" - not Alta enough.

Nick Hiltgen December 21st, 2005 08:36 AM

Peter I think you win with semi-alta.

Shannon Rawls December 21st, 2005 08:57 AM

How about:

"XL-H1"

How does that sound? *smile*

- Shannon

Bob Zimmerman December 22nd, 2005 04:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick Hiltgen
Peter I think you win with semi-alta.

If you do everything in auto mode you could say your semi-altamatic.

Chris Hurd December 22nd, 2005 07:43 AM

Semi-Altamatic. Now you're on to something!

Peter Moore December 22nd, 2005 05:19 PM

Did no one get the line?

Carlos Rodriguez December 22nd, 2005 05:28 PM

I thought it was funny...


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