No the sky is really bright. A polarizer filter would help.

Inter-line twitter there in all conditions
 

Thanks for all the comments. Basically the inter-line twitter and artifacts are there in all conditions more or less. As well the artifacts can still be seen very much on my TV.

I think Rob's comment that it might be due to excessive sharpening makes sense right now. My camera has a lot of manual controls, but no sharpening adjustment is listed in the manual. I'm going to try and talk to someone at Panasonic but right after Christmas they seem to be too busy.

Gain settings
 

I would check your gain settings, set it to none if possible. You said it was a high end 1 CCD there should be a way to set the gain levels. My Gl2 and my XL1s and my old dcr950 had these if you are shooting in auto mode I can guarantee that it will boost those gain levels. The gain normally will affect how grainy a picture looks in dark areas but it could be causing some other compression artifacts as well. Just a thought

If the intention is to do composite, editing and colour correction in FCP through DV, would i be better off having footage originate on a hi-end dvcam like the Sony DSR-570WSP and native dv then footage of a digibeta then down-converted to dv? Assuming costs are cheaper for the dvcam camera and media?? Or will downconverted digibeta footage still look that slight bit better?

Cheers.

If the final format is (limited) DV then the camera that creates
the best pictures should win, because the format is the same.

Most "low quality DV" videos are low light videos. That's the real problem. ;)

Seun, I think you're absolutely right, and agree with you 100%.

However -- do you realize you're replying to a thread that's more than three years old? Wow!

And I was the original poster and I'm still reading this thread, thanks to e-mail notification. I don't think I've been on this forum for many years. It's like I've been asleep for a few years and just woke up. Even my orginal video clip is still on my website!

Was back to Panasonic and they claimed the quality is a good as it gets for this level of camera. So I just decided to use the camera. And regarding low light quality, the Panasonic DV852 is pretty good. So I have to be thankful for that.

Now I guess everyone has moved on to HD video? Wondering if that solves the problem?

With email notification a thread can live longer than the poster.

Just thought I would add a little something to an interesting thread.

I use to work for a duplication house and we would produce 500 VHSs off a Digitalbeta Deck and the VHS quality was awesome. I was amazed at how good the duplications came out.

I never compared the DigitalBeta Master to the VHS directly, but nevertheless the VHSs looked great.