Re: Screen shots from JAG

Aloha Steve,

David is right about stabilized versus unstablized shots in these images. There is no doubt about that. The other thing is that if you look at the nose up attitude of the Huey and the wake on the boat in the 900 image, they are going much slower. The Huey is nearly hovering in that image. In the HDV images, particularly the second one, the boat is out of focus for whatever reason (you can debate that forever, only Jody can tell us). However, if you look at the reflections on the water, which are not moving they are out of focus and stretched. This is pretty clearly a result of deinterlacing the 1080i footage (I think it was shot at 50i if I remember right). Since they were deinterlacing you can pretty much assume that the 900 was shot at 1080 24p, which would also come up with a much better image. Are there differences. There better be or no one in there right mind would buy a 900. Is the HDV footage useable? I don't think this is a particularly good test of that. We'll have to wait and see when someone produces a documentary that is broadcast (and you can bet there will be some) and you can see the whole thing on TV rather than a few seconds of aerials. My two cents.

Ken