Telecine Camera: Panasonic vs Canon

22/3/2013

Today has been a day of testing. I've been experimenting with various manual camera settings on both the Panasonic and Canon to see which works best with the Workprinter-HD. Both of these cameras blew me away quality wise (I'm used to SD transfers) but for me there was a clear winner.

Watch the videos bellow and judge for yourself. Keep in mind the image quality is stripped by youtube but each of these files have come straight out of the Velocity software and have been uploaded to youtube. Similar settings on both cameras were used and the same settings in Velocity were utilized. Which camera do you feel produces better images? Remember set them to HD and fullscreen them.

6 Comments

Jeremy Cavanagh

23/3/2013 04:26:51 am

Kevin,

On full screen at 1080P and just one viewing each I would say the top clip was better - less 'grain' or better at resolving detail in black areas of the picture and better dynamic range over all.

As a broadcast engineer I would much rather look at the pictures on a grade one monitor but tough on me. I am amazed at the picture quality you have got using those small cameras. It looks like your hard work and patience has paid off and you have got a good set up.

With more and more film scanning services being offered then that removes a big obstacle to 8mm and 16 mm becoming serious competition for small format video in television and video work.

Kevin I hope you get opportunities to hawk this service around for people who haven't thought of using film in their work. Best of luck mate.

BTW. Which camera did you like best?

Kevin Timmins

26/3/2013 04:00:26 pm

The Panasonic for sure! I've replied on the filmshooting forum btw! Thanks for the kind words!

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24/3/2013 04:27:18 am

Congratulations on getting this set up. On my first YouTube glance the top clip looks better too, the colours are easier on the eye (less saturated), but maybe that's probably not such a big difference that couldn't be tweaked in post. Maybe you could look closely at some stills (before compression) for comparison and see which camera is resolving better.

Ultimately I wonder if capturing the video output from a DSLR camera (video mode not shutter-busting stills!) could enable better macro optics than the zoom lens / close-up adaptor combo of the camcorders) ? I'm guessing you are frame grabbing from an HDMI source, so it would be a question for the DSLR community as to which (if any) of the current cameras give a good clean 'always on' video output via the HDMI output. May be that's more R&D for phase 2 though ; )

Great to see this running though, and look forward to finally seeing a one-stop stock/process/telecine deal available here in the UK.

Will we be able to send you our own memory sticks with the footage. (I've been able to do this for other telecine services.) ?

Kevin Timmins

26/3/2013 04:09:36 pm

Haha, yes phase 2! It would be interesting to try it with a DSLR. It is quite difficult to get the small barrel of the current macro lens to focus though. I'm not sure I could centre a DSLR lens due to the width (without modifying the unit). Perhaps something to try after the warranty is up :)

Indeed, I want everyone to provide there own reusable memory sticks to keep the service cheap as possible. As soon as I have to include, dvd's, usb's, DV tapes the price shoots up!

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24/12/2013 02:49:17 pm

I am not going to say what everyone else has already said, but I do want to comment on your knowledge of the topic. You are truly well-informed. I cant believe how much of this I just was not aware of.

Telecine Camera: Panasonic vs Canon

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