Re: Sony Z5U: Looking for detailed settings to get better film look

Okay, after waiting a few days without a response, I continued searching on the web and actually found the information I was looking for, so I'm posting this link and hope it stays active.

Apparently at the NAB 2009 convention, Sony hosted a bunch of seminars with experts in their cameras and a nice gentleman named Juan Martinez did one on this very subject, and I found out some amazing information. Basically, he explained that the Sony HDV cameras have exactly the same depth of menu settings as the EX-1 and EX-3 as well as their Broadcast line of flagship cameras. He even said the HDV cameras can make pictures that are "much better than they ought to be." I think its possible that they included these deep menu settings to whet the appetites of professionals to want to upgrade to cameras with optics and sensors that can get even better images with the wide range of internal picture settings available.

Long story short, if you own a Sony HVR Z7U or Z5U, watch this lecture to get a professional explanation of the beast lurking in your camera. Combining a knowledge and skill of these internal settings with some of the awesome post-production software out now like Magic Bullet Looks 1.2 (Which is now compatible with Sony Vegas 8.0 -- HA!) means you can get some really extraordinary results from even the stock lenses on these cameras.

Here's the link, and I would try to download them or watch them before they take them down (hopefully they won't but you never know):

http://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/ext/BroadcastandBusiness/minisites/NAB2009/videos.shtml

Good luck!