Resolution vs. Other HD/HDV Camcorders

Jerome Marot · July 17th, 2006, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by David Ziegelheim

Jerome and Jeff,

Is some of the footage or stills you referred to available in native format?

Thanks,

David

No, I'm sorry. But filming a few trees at different zoom levels shouldn't be too difficult, should it?

Mike Sakovski · July 17th, 2006, 08:09 AM

i have both the HC1 and the FX1. The later is a terrific camera, good zoom range, excellent IS, usable in the most dimmest of the environments etc, but in normal light i find it producing more coarse and video-ish like picture than the HC1. I watch the video on 2 HDTVs, both i believe 720p or close. The picture from the HC1 is extemely clean, with almost 0 enhancement and full of fine detail.

My 2 cents.

Jeff DeMaagd · July 17th, 2006, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by David Ziegelheim

Jerome and Jeff,

Is some of the footage or stills you referred to available in native format?

I don't have any such footage myself. The best I can link are files that are in WMV format. One was some night time footage of Seoul, Korea that was posted here some months ago. The other was a fireworks show link that was emailed to me privately by Jerome Cloninger of jcdv.com. I think he'd be happy to send a link to a few people, but I don't want to potentially bust his server bandwidth by publicly posting a link.

Jerome Marot · July 17th, 2006, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff DeMaagd

There is the exposure setting that I think is called here "sun and moon". I've seen absolutely stunning nighttime footage that was recorded on this model camera, unfortunately it has to be set right.

If I recall correctly, what this setting does is lower the exposure speed. You can get decent nightime footage by doing the same yourself:
-disable the stabilisator
-lower the exposure to 1/25 second (for pal)
-try the backlight button

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I don't think anyone has said that there aren't better cameras on the market, but you'll be spending twice as much to get the next camera model.

I did not mean to criticise the camera, but to explain what to avoid filming so that its limitations will not be too apparent.

July 17th, 2006, 08:09 AM	#17
Mike Sakovski Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nj, usa Posts: 65	i have both the HC1 and the FX1. The later is a terrific camera, good zoom range, excellent IS, usable in the most dimmest of the environments etc, but in normal light i find it producing more coarse and video-ish like picture than the HC1. I watch the video on 2 HDTVs, both i believe 720p or close. The picture from the HC1 is extemely clean, with almost 0 enhancement and full of fine detail. My 2 cents.