Re: Standard 60fps?

Hi Herb,

That project sounds great, and I'll keep do some tests of 50 interlaced to 25 to have a look (I'm in PAL land downunder).

Unfortunately for your DP, they'll have to live with the flickery eyepiece for the time being. It's the progressive nature of the Varicam, that you are seeing only 24/25/30 HZ replayed to you progressively. There is no interlacing between the camera head and the eyepiece monitor so that persistence of vision thing turns up again and strobing is noticed. In a film camera eyepiece it is also 24FPS progressively, but with a blurred shutter look so it's softer and easier to deal with.

On my recent drama shoot, after a day of shooting neither the operator or I noticed it anymore, and once you know it's normal or okay, it can quickly be forgotten about and bigger problems come up. The nice thing about the Varicam while shooting is that you see what you get with frame rates, shutter angles and lighing power supply flicker, and I wouldn't trade that now that I've become used to it.

Dale