A World First!(?) D300 (non-S) video! at DVinfo.net

Mark Kenfield · April 17th, 2012, 05:28 AM

Well having just picked up a PIX240 video recorder today, I got home and grumbled that I didn't have anything to shoot on it with. But then I remembered that my old faithful D300 has an HDMI output, so I plugged it in and started playing around.

The camera exports out a bunch of settings around the border of the footage, but there's a clean 1430 x 948 pixels in the centre which can be fairly easily cropped out and with the PIX240 able to record high quality audio to go along with the footage (albeit out of sync until I can figure out the audio delay to input). I now (inadvertently) have my first large-sensor HD cam!

http://i.imgur.com/VrNtW.jpg

And here's a sample (downressed to 1000px for web):

http://i.imgur.com/Jcxrw.jpg

Kinda cool I reckon!

Jack Zhang · April 19th, 2012, 01:56 PM

I did the same thing with a D300 I had lying around and my nanoFlash. The only downside is that the frame rate is very low in HD mode. 5 or so frames per second. You also can't enable PsF or else there will be interlacing every now and then.

April 17th, 2012, 05:28 AM	#1
Mark Kenfield Major Player Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 415	A World First!(?) D300 (non-S) video! Well having just picked up a PIX240 video recorder today, I got home and grumbled that I didn't have anything to shoot on it with. But then I remembered that my old faithful D300 has an HDMI output, so I plugged it in and started playing around. The camera exports out a bunch of settings around the border of the footage, but there's a clean 1430 x 948 pixels in the centre which can be fairly easily cropped out and with the PIX240 able to record high quality audio to go along with the footage (albeit out of sync until I can figure out the audio delay to input). I now (inadvertently) have my first large-sensor HD cam! http://i.imgur.com/VrNtW.jpg And here's a sample (downressed to 1000px for web): http://i.imgur.com/Jcxrw.jpg Kinda cool I reckon!

April 19th, 2012, 01:56 PM	#2
Jack Zhang Trustee Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada Posts: 1,811	Re: A World First!(?) D300 (non-S) video! I did the same thing with a D300 I had lying around and my nanoFlash. The only downside is that the frame rate is very low in HD mode. 5 or so frames per second. You also can't enable PsF or else there will be interlacing every now and then. __________________ I wait for the day 3x1920x1080 global shutter CMOS sensors emerge. Rolling Shutters are a plague.

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