Wow, the footages look lovely. I'm gladed I sold my XL1s.

The footage seems to be gone now?

Yeah all but the first one was gone when I checked this afternoon.

Aaron

Incredible footage on both day and night.

I like the music on the night footage, very smooth

Johnnie,
A couple of lens-related question for you: was the autofocus "solid"? In other words, did it do a lot of hunting or was it able to lock onto a subject in low light and hold focus? Also, were there any back focus issues that you noticed? Any focus drifting?

Hi Bill,
Sorry,coming from the ENG world I never use the auto focus and did not bother with it with the XL2.
No back focus issues that I noticed in the short time the camera was with me.

Regards
Johnnie

<<<-- Originally posted by Johnnie Behiri : Hi Bill,
Sorry,coming from the ENG world I never use the auto focus and did not bother with it with the XL2.
No back focus issues that I noticed in the short time the camera was with me.

Regards
Johnnie -->>>
I understand. My vision is getting poor and I really need autofocus for some situations, alas.

Battery brick
 

Does anyone happen to know what battery brick and holder was used on the test camera in the picture?

Johnnie,

Did you use the noise reduction option on the night shoots?...it is impossible to tell if there is noise the compressed clips

on the preproduction model i tested the noise reduction worked well, even if it did soften the image a bit...

http://emptyloft.com/xl2/noisereduction.bmp

Robert,

I did not use the noise reduction option on the night shoots.
Noise levels on the original footage is incredibly low.

Johnnie

The footage is still there. The files have just been renamed to .wmv instead of .xwmv. Just copy the shortcut and paste it in without the "x".

I'm not selling my DVX100 anytime soon, but that night footage is pretty amazing and I can't wait to see more of what the XL2 can do. Competition is a great thing.