24hr filmmaking - I laughed my ass off!

[miker]

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/play.html?pg=4

If you read nothing else, be sure to read the last paragraph.

[belovedmonster]

thanx for bringing that to our attention [img]graemlins/sleepy.gif[/img]

[Alex]

Well it relates to the last paragraph of the article that Miker provided a link to.

[Alex]

As for the last paragraph in the link you provided, the problem they speak of is something that I've harped on before.

One reason their videos might have been too dark is because DV camcorders crush video black levels while letting the white levels go to 115 IRE or more. This is a ridiculous attempt to make the camera original "look" more like film by creating higher contrast. The Camera acquisition should be about picking up as much detail as possible by being LESS contrasty, not more contrasty. DV camcorders SHOULD NOT be emulating the look of film contrast during the camera acquisition phase.

One determines how much overall contrast they want when they are editing.

The scam to sell a greater number of camcorders in the stores relies on the camera recording higher contrast while feeding the image into a large television monitor. This is consumer fraud.

What really matters is how much of the ultra high contrast can actually be absorbed onto your recording medium.

Sony used this ultra high contrast technique to perfection in the mid 90's to make people think that Hi-8 video cameras and the HI-8 forumat was better than S-VHS. This high contrast/illegal video level camera setting could be a form of consumer fraud that has yet to championed in the courts, and now the deceit has spread to DV.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 03, 2004 11:48 PM: Message edited by: Alex ]</font>