Originally Posted by knowyouremeny Do you think the FX1 is good enough to come across as being professional? Have you posted any videos you took with it on the net? |
The FX1E is certainly good enough for your average 'event videographer' i.e. weddings and the like. But only as long as you get yourself a decent (set of?) external microphones and something like Beachtek DXA-4 to connect them to the camera.
The real proffessionals of the world treat HDV with some distain and so would not even look at one.
As for publishing my stuff on the web. Little movies I've made with it are available (typically though these user forums) however, to make them available for download they've been typically exported as fairly low res WMV9 files so the quality you're after judging has already been removed I'm afraid.
So, to answer your question, it really all depend on what type of proffessional you are referring to. If you're working on the next Steven Spielberg project then the FX1 is, quite simply, a load of old rubbish, but if you're filming weddings then it is more than perfect.
The quality you get out of an image is that you can print a 6x4 in photo at 300 dpi from a single frame, after deinterlacing of course), which is really handy for making DVD covers
You should google for some raw FX1 footage. I'm sure there's plenty about. The files will not be small though.
I'll export a few frames as still to show you what you get. I'll post alink when I've done it.