Re: Camera Choices

Thanks for the feeback guys. I understand that content is of course king. I figure the easy part should be in choosing choosing equipement and the hard part will be creating compelling content. I Just want to be sure that my equipment choices within, the confines of my budget don't limit me given my requirements. I've done a ton of research and I'm down to two cams: Panasonic HPX170 and the Sony EX-1, EX3. Pano's CCD 960 x 540 with pixel shifting verses Sony's CMOS 1920 x 1080 with possible rolling shutter issues. Pano's DVCPRO intraframe verses Sony's Mpeg2 long GOP. Pano's 4:2:0 color sampling verses Sony's 4:2:2. I keep reading that the EX has a very "Video like" image and that the Pano's is much more film like. I've also read that with much effort you can simulate the film like look with the Sony with the proper settings (True,false?). The most important thing to me is that I don't want my equipment choices to prevent me from generating the highest quality, most film like image within the confines of my budget. Eventually I would like to submit my stuff for digital projection with decent image quality. Given that I'm not an experienced shooter I don't know if I would be able to shoot footage proper footage that truly represented the best of what these two cams are capable of if I were to rent each one.