Jac Chesson

Nice work, Jeff! The interviews looked great. As I was watching I was wondering how did you get the faces to look so balanced in the harsh sun. Then it dawned on me that the salt flats were acting like a giant bounce card! How perfect is that! Anyway, nice work! Does turning the detail off minimize the "jitteryness" when shooting things w/ close set horizontal lines in 24p? I always seem to intercut conventional video footage w/ my 450s 24p video so I haven't yet had the courage to turn my detail all the way off! Later! Jac

Hey Simon! Great work! Tell us where we can find it. Jac

Congratulations on your purchase, Stephen! I've had mine for about 6 months now and all my clients are very happy with the image quality. My main competition, for whom I used to work, uses an F900! Of course, no one here posts in HD and it's all downconverted. I've used both since being out on my own and would compare SD video head to head all the time. Honestly, it's tough to tell the difference and I'm very picky! Especially when you consider the huge price difference. Anyway, I'm happy to hear we have another in the fold. Congratulations! Jac

Jeff, Thanks for going to all that trouble and posting your findings. It was very helpful and educational. I personally love my 450, but have noticed the twitter problem and would love an in-camera solution to it. I wonder if the folks at Sony could come up with something. I need to send my 450 in to Teaneck, NJ (to have them fix my timecode preset feature!) and maybe I'll bring up the twitter issue then. They seem to be very helpful and responsive. Thanks, everyone! This is the only place I've found that actually talks about using our camera. It's great! Still would love to see an exclusive Sony 450 forum, but I don't think the numbers are in my favor! Jac

Gentlemen, Thank you both for the information. I appreciate the help. I've been using the regular 24p mode for nearly all of my projects, but I didn't want to be missing out if the advanced mode looked a lot better. The way I read it, unless I'm doing a film out or need to print out each frame, I don't really need the advanced mode. Peter, thank you for the Adam Wilt link (very informative!) and Dave, thanks for your perspective and congratulations on your first true 24p DVD. The 450 really is a great camera, period.

Yes, Tim I have noticed that about mine although my screen is a little more blue than reality. It's too bad that there is not an adjustment to compensate. Jac

Hello everyone! I've looked at the manual on the 450WS and I'm not clear on the visual differences between the two types of pulldown options available. Can anyone help? Thanks, Jac

Thanks for the Sony website tips, Simon. They were most helpful. You're absolutely right about crispening. Frankie, I'm sure you've seen on these tips that there are lots of ways to increase chroma.

I agree with Peter. 16:9 Anamorphic is the way to go. Plus, it gives your product a higher end look and thereby giving you a "leg up" on the competition. Just make sure you do a test run to make sure your editor and DVD authoring program work well with this.

Thanks, Van We need to get Peter to use his "Sustaining Member" status to influence the powers that be in that direction.

Hi, Frankie I've not had that problem w/ my 450, although after sunset I have had readings as high as 15000, but that's just because the light that time of evening was very blue. Peter, please send some of that rain out KC way. Unseasonably hot and dry here.

Hello Everyone! My first reply here on this forum. I just purchased the DSR-450WS (NTSC version). I've been in business for myself for about 1 year. I came from a production company background and I used the f900 Cinealta almost every day. The DSR-450WS is the first reasonably priced camera that I've seen with all the controlability of the f900. This camera is not the 390, 500, or 570. It's completely different. Simon is right. Adjusting the user matrix is the best way to introduce more saturation. Frankie, make sure you spend a lot of time with this camera and a good monitor to come up with a pleasing look that you like. If you're doing a lot of 24p work like me, make sure you reduce the detail and crispening for a more natural, film-like look. The factory defaults are over detailed IMHO. For the money, it is a truly amazing camera. A real client pleaser! It would be great if someday the Sony DSR-450WS would have its own forum here, but I seem to be the only person in the U.S. that has one! :)