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Spot|DSE wrote on 12/5/2004, 11:46 AM
Excellent page, thanks for sharing! It's great to see some of this starting to come out.
mark2929 wrote on 12/5/2004, 12:05 PM
Great stuff... It looks better than Digibeta its equivilent to 16mm IMO ! :) At least resolution wise...
p@mast3rs wrote on 12/5/2004, 12:14 PM
Kind of off topic, but does the Sonyx VX2000/2100 shoot native 16:9 or is it squished?
Spot|DSE wrote on 12/5/2004, 2:03 PM
It's squished
p@mast3rs wrote on 12/5/2004, 2:23 PM
I swear Im not trying to hijack this thread, so is it not wise to shoot 16:9 using a VX2000? If its squished, I am assuming Ill lose some quality correct?
John_Cline wrote on 12/5/2004, 3:01 PM
Personally, I have never seen "decent" 16x9 out of any camera that doesn't have dedicated 16x9 chips. The PD150 looks pretty horrid in the 16x9 mode when compared to its standard 4x3 mode. I can only assume that the VX2000 looks equally unacceptable.

John
Barry_Green wrote on 12/5/2004, 3:35 PM
It does. 16x9 on the VX2100 is a really weak implementation of in-camera 16x9.
wcoxe1 wrote on 12/5/2004, 4:04 PM
I believe that the VX2100E in this article was using an add-on anamorphic lens, not the on-board chopped off top and bottom native to the VX2100. There is some horizontal expansion in both camcorders when rendered at 1920 x 1080, since the FX1 and Z1 both have 1440 x 1080 ccd's.

Don't know how much this may have "tainted" the comparison, but it looked about as equivilent as humanly possible to me.