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You are right that HD looks more attractive in general. A camera with a true highres sensor will record a much crisper image than an upsampled SD image, no doubt. But especially the HVX200 has no highres sensor so in this particular case the topic starter won't gain much in sharpness by using...

Sorry, forgot to post the answers I presented those five examples: (please click the preview images for the 2k samples) 1) Love scene in bed We used a simple setup with a soft 1,2 kW HMI, bounced into two styros and a big china ball with a 150 W daylight ESL (energy-saving-lamp). A flag was...

Sorry, but I don't find those arguments valuable. Especially as the topic starter has the choice between XL2 and HVX200. The HVX200 uses 3 1/3" CCDs with 960x540 progressive Pixels and uprez that by using pixelshifting to HD. The XL2 uses 3 1/3" 960x480 (NTSC) progressive Pixels and downrez...

Hi Ed, I am using the Sekonic C-340 which is the analog variant. Advantage: much cheaper than the electronic ones, doesn't need batteries Disadvantage: harder to read, lacks some of the advanced features, has a strong magnetic, so it might be dangerous for credit cards, tapes, harddrives If you...

I understand. Thank's for clearing that up :)

I won't see why you wouldn't be happy with the Rode NTG-3. IMHO, it sounds nearly identical to the Sennheiser MKH-416. I had the Sennheiser K6/ME66 and it is not anywhere close to the MKH-416 or NTG-3. The ME66 sounds to thin for my taste, the NTG-3 is much warmer, has more presence. You might...

Look out for the Firestore. But be prepared to bleed money.

Alcove Audio, is there a reason not to put the NTG3 into the professional range? It is almost identical to the mkh416 imho.

The m-audio microtrack II might be worth a look, you can get it very cheap atm and it comes with XLR and phantom power.

For almost a decade. And my own business has been founded 2.5 years ago. Well, I am sure I can give you some advice how to spend the money carefully and for the right things. For that I think it would be best to contact local business - either they can help or they at least can give you some...

Brett, I am from Austria. But I am not quite sure how I could help you? You say anything can help, but the more specific you are what you need the easier it is to help.

I have shot several times with the EX3 and indeed you can get a nice shallow DoF with it because of the 1.9 zoom lens. But I remember one shot in a car in that video with very small DoF, so probably they have a second EX1 with a 35mm adapter.

http://www.pfhoe.com/ Very good and cheap - € 79,-

The EX1 & EX3 both have 1/2" CMOS.

Shooting 15 pages in one day? I wanna see and listen to that result... I don't question that you can do that - but I question the quality of the result. If you plan to do it correctly and get quality shots, then better calculate with an average of 3-4 film minutes per 8-10 h day. That means...

It's a Sony Ex1

Examples I have some examples here I want to share. First I put up some final graded screen-shots of the film and you can try to guess the setup. Afterwards I will post the lighting setup used. The shots are from the short movie "Abheben" I lit in 2008, all shot on RED ONE. Please click the...

Every video camera has it's own gamma, cameras like the Canon XH-A1 lets you change the gamma curve. It is very possible to set the Canon to produce contrasty images - just change some settings. The higher the dynamic range the flatter an image looks.

HDV records on standard miniDV tape but uses stronger and better compression than SD DV. But you are better off buying good quality tapes, as a tape drop-out has more relevance when recording HDV than with SD (12 frames vs. 1 frame lost). I recommend using Panasonic advanced master quality (AMQ)...

Thanks for pointing me into the right directions. A fellow director of mine has contributed to the festival - his movie "Schreibblockade (Writer's Block)" will be shown at the NYIIFV 09. I did the color grading, sound mastering and the PAL to NTSC conversion for him. Well, I hope it won't turn...