Re: HD question

hi i already posted this in a other thread but is also true here.

Without talking about all the other aspect of a camera that have influence on picture quality. sorry but i get technical here ;-)
Mister nyquist has proved us that oversampling (what using a HD camera in a SD enviroment actually is) increase quality.
a HD camera will perform better in a SD enviroment due to the aperture effect. The optical path in a camera (this include the CCD) act as a lowpass filter that has a very slow roll-off (sinx/x)a SD camera will have a attenuation of detail near the half sample freq of 4dB. a HD camera has the same response but a wider frequenty range giving that on the same input frequentie (detail in a scene) the attenuation will be far less. resulting in a better rendering of detail.

of coarse this does not take bad downscaling in account.

cheap camera's will downscale badly and will have bad detail proccessing on there downscaled output's.

so let your NLE do the hardwork since it has time for it.

greet
Maurice

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