Re: Cineframe 30/Cineframe 25 resolution loss vs. 60i

[Barry Green] "rather I'd say that they would be the least compromised way of using the FX1E or Z1 to make film-looking video. It's hard to argue that limiting a 1080i camera to 575 lines of resolution, which then needs to be speed-converted down 4%, is a good solution. It's probably a better solution than any other way of using the camera, but it's certainly not a perfect design."

I agree FX1E is certainly not a perfect design but is a good one for a cheap HD enabled consumer cam for achieving of a film style look or speed in your picture. Also I do have JVC GR-PD1/625p50 that is a quite OK but you cannot trust this cam because of missing main manual controls. For example auto focus is almost always on even in manual set up and if a light is changed on the focused object than everything is getting out of focus or blurring in your picture. But is somehow a good cam for certain carefully prepared shootings especially because of progressive scan. Have a look how Peter Jackson using it in production of King Kong at

http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/day68-480x270-mpeg4.mov

As I said FX1E is quite OK in 24 FPS and have a look at

http://www.sanjinjukic.com/index_24fps.html

I know that film cameras are unbeatable for what it can do and I enjoy a lot to watch how are ARRI 35 mm cameras used in King Kong production at

http://img-nex.kongisking.net/kong/movies/day62-480x270-mpeg4.mov

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