IMPORTANT UPATE REGARDING NOISE AND SENSITIVITY: See section highlighted in red below. Hi all. Well I have got a Canon XF305E for the afternoon. Wish it was longer, but they are like hens teeth. I’m going to be writing and updating this as I go, so please keep coming back for the latest updates and [...]
After completing the multi camera shootout at Visual Impact, one thing was bothering me about the pictures from the PMW-350 and that was the way the specular highlights in the tin foil were artificially enhanced. During the test the camera was set to factory defaults, which IMHO are too sharp, but the foil in particular [...]
Crispening is one of the adjustments you can make in many of Sony’s video cameras that adjusts the way the image is sharpened via the detail correction circuit. On an EX1 or EX3 it is in the Picture Profiles section. If use wisely Crispening can be used to help deal with camera noise by making [...]
I was asked to look at creating a picture profile for the EX1R in SD mode to make it look more like an older 2/3″ SD camera. I spent a couple of hours trying various settings and I came up with the ones below. Matrix; cinema, level +8 SD Detail Level +25, Frequency -65, crispening [...]
I’m not going to write much here as if you look under the reviews tab at the top of the page you will see full reviews of both cameras. What I will say is I like them both. The PMW-350 is an excellent camera and I Think a 350 plus NanoFlash will make a very [...]