>Yes, I have noticed problems with this format as well as all other
>consumer grade formats that I doubt the DV Cam could improve much on. No
>matter what I do, even with the TRV900, colors are never completely
>accurate and video played back on TV comes much closer to looking like
>live news on cable than even an average DVD. The TRV900 was the first
>video camera I ever owned, and somehow I expected more. The film looked
>best on the camera's 3 inch swivel LCD screen, despite the many failings
>of LCD. Even then, the colors are not 100% accurate but when I play it
>back on a larger screen it's even more evident. It just doesn't get to
>the point of looking like really great film, no matter what. Maybe
>consumer DVD camcorders can finally change this when they happen.
Let me tell you now, the TRV-900, is actually a very good little camera, i
mean the difference between that and even betacam is definately not
noticeable to the untrained eye (actually you can make it look much better
by manually overriding all the controls - that's why pro cameras are
designed much more for manual override), and the differnce in price and size
and weight is definately not equal to the difference in picture quality.
There is no camera (not even the best) that can come near looking like film,
there is a certain 'feel' about film which can't even be effectively
replicated digitally. Even though all film is digitized now anyhow - let me
put in an audio bit here so you guys can't completely complain about me
going OT - it is very much like the idea of using a valve mic pre before
digitising audio, it gives it a warmth, and the film is easier to match for
different shooting conditions too. There is the obvious advantage, too of
film having much higher resolution, as well as the fact that it adds it's
own characteristic noise (ie grain).
I've never noticed any trouble with colours (in case you haven't guessed i
have access to a TRV 900), this could be because I always use manual white
balance. And yes i'd agree the LCD is very forgiving, it's a pity they
didn't have a black and white crt viewfinder (in case you're wondering why
B&W, it's because you can get a much higher resolution, and a flatter screen
with B&W, thus it's easier to get focus and composition right, and when you
do a manual white balance, the colour will be right, and the zebra bars will
give you the correct exposure. All pro video cameras have B&W CRT
viewfinders.) and as far as quality goes, it's about the same resolution as
DVD (slightly less, really, but only about 80 lines) and once again you'll
find that it's only the DVDs that were shot on film that will look much
better, if you watch something that's shot on a video camera on DVD (e.g. a
"making of" like "Making the Matrix"), it'll look just like cable TV.
This is not OT, the piece of equipment under debate is a competeter with a
soon to be released MD product.
Christopher Spalding
Genius, generally excellent and gifted person.
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