Re: Screen shots from JAG

[Steve Mullen] "That's why the claim the FX1 is better than ANY SD camera is simply an absurd claim. "

Of course it would be ridiculous to compare vastly more expensive SD cameras with a $ 3200 camcorder. But compared to other similarly priced $ 3000 - $ 4000 SD camcorders it is superior in terms of resolution. Even Barry Green was forced to admit that it blows away the competition in HDV mode. Herein lies the crux of the differences of opinion on this forum. For a relatively poor independent filmmaker, at present the FX1/Z1 offers amazing quality. It is only of academic interest to a struggling filmmaker that $ 30 000 - $100 000 produce better pictures - he'll never buy a camera like that.

I see HDV as providing such filmmakers with better quality images than the DV cameras they could previously afford. Of course, it's a compromise, of course there are challenges, but in the end this is the only way some filmmakers can even hope to improve the quality of their independent productions. The fact that the Z1 has been used to shoot footage for JAG seems incredibly irksome for some - the producers of the show where happy with the footage, as where the millions who watched the show. Only a handful of people on earth where unhappy about it - and bizarrly they seem to all reside on this forum.