August 5, 2011 at 9:45 am
I currently have a Panasonic HMC151 which has and is brilliant. The reason I have it is that it uses 3xCCD which means that propellers are not an issue and appear ‘realistic’ rather than some of the problems facing CMOS chips.
Now, I am happy with the 151, but I could do with something that has a longer Optical range, like the old XM2 I had which had a 20x zoom.
So what I am looking for is a HD camera that shoots full 1080P, has a reasonable Optical zoom and can cope with Propellers. If it has CCD’s that’s great, but I don’t know how the latest CMOS chips cope with Propellers.
The best way of testing this is to just use an indoor fan and film it. If it looks like a spinning disk, great, if it looks like a bent banana or straight horizontal lines, it’s not what I am looking for
I am looking at a £2k budget, but at a push (and with a little tear in the eye) I can probably go to £3k.
I have no idea with recent cameras whether £3k will get me interchangeable lenses (like the old XL1/2 system), but I hope to be able to get a decent HD camera with the above specification, but interchangeable lenses is a bonus not a priority.
Any help really appreciated, cheers, MP
By: Mysticpuma - 5th August 2011 at 12:22
It’s not up to the job sadly 🙁
Check this video out after 2 minutes and see the odd warping effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqF9m3eQOi8
I have a friend who has two of them and we did the fan-test with it. The one side of the fan looked okay, the other was deformed at shutter-speeds over 250th of a second, which as you can imagine on a bright day could be very challenging to control?
Also I really want to have an option of Auto-Focus and don’t want to have to by Viewfinder clip-ons, focus tracking add-ons, as then I may as-well have a dedicated camera anyway?
Thanks for the reply though, cheers, MP
By: ThreeSpool - 5th August 2011 at 10:27
Have you thought about video capable DSLR such as the Canon 5D MkII (~£1800), or the 7D (~£1200) and then your choice of lense(s)? The 5D is actually being used to film proper TV and film, and is some bit of kit.