DVL-Digest 594 - Postings: Index New Sony DSR250 New Sony DSR250 - Adam Wilt Plus it uses Sony's pro Lion batteries... records in DV > so it will provide the touted 4.5 hours of recording on one cassette. > With the L90 battery, you may get that on one battery too! Indeed. I've shot all day with the DSR-500WS on one L90. It's SOOO nice not worrying about power! I never want to go back to AB bricks after using the Sony BP-L series. > I don't know your definition of a real lens, but if the same plastic one > with auto-focus from the PD150 qualifies, then yes it does. I'm not sure where the urban legend of plastic lenses in the 3-chip Sony DV cams comes from, but it's been kicking around for years... no truth to it as far as I can tell (based on reports from people who've smashed theirs), though I'm not really inclined to do a "Sex Lies, & Videotape" on any of my cams just to prove a point... ...not that plastic lenses, per se, are a bad thing; you can do some nice aspherics in plastic that are impractical in glass. I had a Schneider Kreuznach aspheric WA adapter for my Nizo 6080 that was plastic; it made the most gorgeous, rectilinear, pin-sharp pix. Also, with the right choice of materials, you can fix chromatic aberrations using far fewer elements than if you're stuck with crown or flint glass alone -- as Canon has shown with their fluorite element (still glass, but tweaky glass) in the GL1 and in some pro lenses. Still, I remember the sh*t that was sent Canon's way in the late '70s when they had the temerity to use some plastic elements in 35mm still camera lenses. No one ever showed the lenses to be of lesser quality, but hoo boy! What a stink! > If, on the other hand, your definition of a real lens means ...real manual > zoom like a Fujinon or Canon, then no it doesn't. Or real manual focus (more important in my own experience; I like to prefocus and be able to hit marks). OTOH the servo zoom ring on the PD150 & VX2000 stunned me; it's actually usable for slow creeps (gentle zooms, not learning-challenged undesirables) and speed ramps. Will wonders never cease? > You might want to note that they {Sony] are still using > the 1/3" chip set, basically the PD150 in a big body... And if the optical section is the same, Sony has severely underfiltered the CCDs, leading to excessive aliasing on fine horizontal detail, even with the aperture correction at minimum. At for the 250, I'd take a long hard look at the new Panasonic before I'd commit to the Sony. I'm eager to see the image rendering on the Panny (Jan: will it be at IBC? DVExpo?). Besides, with Panny matrixing, I'd finally get real reds -- not Sony orange-reds! :-) Cheers, Adam Wilt (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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