Image source – 43rumors.com UPDATE – vital video stats are: Full HD is 30p for NTSC, 25p for PAL. 17Mbit AVCHD in full HD mode. No 720/60p, just 720p/30p. As predicted first by EOSHD on Twitter last week thanks to a tip off from a jolly good source, the GF2 is having a launch party this week.
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Crews.tv have offered up full resolution frame grabs of the unfinished AF100’s compressed 24Mbit AVCHD codec against 100Mbit AVC-Intra (the latter via the camera’s HD-SDI output). With Philip Bloom generating some excitement over the over-cranked 60p capability along with what I expect will be some knock out footage shot in London anticipation over the camera is high and it’s not even finished yet!
First impressions of the Panasonic GH2 are overwhelmingly positive. There was not another DSLR at Photokina by Canon or Nikon that can compete as an all-rounder. The GH2 is a complete package.
Panasonic have unveiled the AG-AF101 in Europe at the IBC. This is the major first step-up image quality wise from the current video DSLRs we have seen since the original benchmark set by the 5D Mark II in 2008. For the first time we have a large sensor CMOS chip combined with the image processing hardware and functionality to back it up.
Image from The Editman’s excellent blog The Canon 5D Mark II, 7D, 550D, 60D, Panasonic GH1, Sony A55, NEX VG10, AF100 and more cameras are included in our buyer’s guide and introduction to the world of DSLR video. Reviews have to be divided up and aimed at different kinds of people. It is no longer enough to give a score to a camera out of 100 and make blanket statements…
Above – Failures. After the disappointment of Sony’s new DSLRs, the A55 and A580, this is not really what we need. According to HDSLR shooter Nino Leitner, Nikon’s German press office have said that the D3100 will not have the option for manual controls in video mode.
Above: the Sony A55, which died today. UPDATE #1: Sadly the same applies to the Sony A580 – the full sized DSLR which has also been announced. It also has interlaced footage, low bite rates and limited manual controls (aperture priority and that is all). Who is responsible at Sony for these blanket movie mode limitations? UPDATE #2: Not everybody gets the DSLR video revolution and it is these customers…
Luminous Landscape, who are predominantly a stills photography website have always struck me as knowing their stuff to a remarkable degree when it comes to video, with a hybrid photographer / videographer approach. So when Sony invited them out to Yellowstone Park to test the VG10, what they disclosed is incredibly detailed, and offers a new insight into what the first large sensor consumer camcorder is really like, even though…