Interesting approach, which looks very similar to the experiments Wolfgang Winne did perform in Germany (
www.fxsupport.de). He also used vectorscopes and other electronic equipment to develop a number of presets. Purely looking at the parameters, hard to find any similarity between both approaches - which I theoretically should expect, to certain extend in the pure color settings & matrices.
What I question a bit, is the theory about sharpness. A complicated discussion, since nobody knows the real internal processing of the A1 (how can we say that a camera is not good in sharpening, while we hardly knowing it's really doing it?), and secondly, there's also a lot of subjective feeling in it. There's according to me no defense regarding projection of footage, as a lot of project systems tend to soften the focus anyhow. Going to the most blurry setting in this camera looks very challenging to me, and I hope that everyone in this thread realizes this is truely happening in this setting.
Let me put it as such: I personaly would never dare to go that far, risking to return with too unsharp footage, but again, it's a personal choice.
I also read something about the dynamic range of the A1 versus the JVC (which should be less), to be honest: the CCD's and circuits are almost identical to the H1, which is a standard in his level of camera's. All camera's are different, and I've never been working with JVC, but it would surprise me that its footage would overclass the A1's or H1's in this quality aspect.
Back to the preset, this is called 'trucolor' after all. And at first glance, the colors look quite neutral, a bit more then WW's preset. I must say, I've been filming a while with Wolfgang's settings, but left this approach after a few movies.
With a clear pitch towards filmic settings, and with also a lot of respect to the searchers for the perfect neutral preset, I doubt this is really the aim of most A1 users. This was exactly the reason why I dropped earlier Wolfgang's presets, and wouldn't use this one either as my favorite: it looks a bit like shooting with an old VX or PD, without any filmic appliance at all (don't take this as an offense, it's again a subjective issue)
My preference: still, it's in the original DV Info preset list: nr2, ACPREF. With a little color exageration but nice cine tonal balance, sharp, crisp footage without blowing out the entire color balance. I never had any bad comment on it, surely not regarding problems with the sharpness ;-).
You can tune a music instrument as well with a lot of electronic stuff, but when it's done with the bare ear, you will surely come to a somewhat deviating, interesting result. A little bit, like this, isn't operating of the A1 a bit like playing on a violin?
