Guest kjekkogpen_@hotmail.com Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 I am a student filmmaker considering which camera to buy... I will mainly be shooting shorts and I am looking for the best camera for that purpose. I want a 'film-look' for my films, if you know what I mean.... But what is prefferable? HD or 24p? The cameras I am thinking about is the Sony HDR-FX1 HDV vs DVX100A ?? I want to shoot in 16:9, so I guess you'd loose quality if you letterbox the DVX100A image? Which of the cameras offers the best 'cinematic look' ? Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dan Diaconu Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Thomas, Tell me what you think about this footage: http://rapidshare.de/files/1230020/bshoot2.avi.html and I will tell you the camera. Click on the link, scroll down, click on "free". It will start loading in a minute. (27Mb) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Marx Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 (edited) I am a student filmmaker considering which camera to buy... I will mainly be shooting shorts and I am looking for the best camera for that purpose. I want a 'film-look' for my films, if you know what I mean.... But what is prefferable? HD or 24p? The cameras I am thinking about is the Sony HDR-FX1 HDV vs DVX100A ?? I want to shoot in 16:9, so I guess you'd loose quality if you letterbox the DVX100A image? Which of the cameras offers the best 'cinematic look' ? Thomas <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 24P cameras shoot at the 24 frame rate which is the standard film frame rate. The HDR-FX1 is an HDV camera that will give you very CRISP images that look like HD VIDEO. If your looking for a film look, you should go with a 24P camera. Your best bet is to find a camera rental house in your area and rent one of each before you make your investment. Make sure you have a credit card! Good luck! - - Justin Edited May 23, 2005 by Justin Marx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenolian Bell Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 To start off I would say HD and 24P describe three different things and cannot really be compared the way you have. High Definition is a video format. 24 frame per second is a frame rate. P is for progressive scan. All of these are independent of each other. HD can be 24P, 30P, 60P. HD can be 50i or 60i. I assume when you ask about 24P you mean the DVX-100 or the XL-2. What makes those cameras different is they record to miniDV, a different video format from HD. These cameras have no special claim to 24P, which is format agnostic. HDV throws in a new set of variable because its CCD's record HD but lays to a miniDV tape. It does this through ridiculous amounts of compression, and does not record very clean 24 frames per second. Between the Sony HDR-FX1 HDV vs DVX100A at this point I would still go with the DVX100A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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