Re: Shooting in 3D: 24p or 60i

Great advice from John.

I also noticed in the specs of that camera that the chips are only 1/4". Just be aware that those are very small chips and will require LOTS of light - as John pointed out, even more light is needed because of the 3D glasses cutting down incomging light to the eye as well.

In those tests that John suggested doing, pay attention to the graininess/fuzziness of the image as well. I just went through all of this with my new NX5U cameras which have 1/3" chips and in order to reduce or eliminate image grain the camera has to be set to -3 or -6 db gain and fully open iris. Essentially anything that is not daylight will either be darker than we'd like or have some grain in the image. I'm just telling you this so that you can plan to light your film accordingly. Try to keep the camera iris fully open at all times and if that camera can go to a negative gain then use it.

Have fun! I'm so anxoius to get into 3D but for what I do there's just no market for it yet.

Eric