video jello

Somebody trying to stir things up. Hit monger? Troll? Nikon PR? 13 year-old with bet?

Regardless, I'll give him/her the benefit of the doubt here. Seriously, I've had CMOS sensors on my pro camcorders for over 2 years now. I've NEVER had a client or Director complain about rolling shutter effects in pans. NEVER.

NEVER.

With so many complaints about this circling the forum, I feel like there must be some sort of conspiracy backing it up. For 99% of all footage shot professionally, it is not an issue. And for that additional 1%, just rethink your composition. Avoid pans over horizonal subjects. Lord knows every cinematographer I know avoids this with film too. It's just ugly camera work.
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or street scape or building lined streets or tree line..............or footage from anything.
are you sure about filmakers and verticals?

"Lord knows every cinematographer I know avoids this with film too. It's just ugly camera work."
hmmmm........

A camera that only does 30fps due to the readout rate and uses a slow rolling shutter will have this problem for short exposure times.

I don't know which controls Canon allow one to use when shooting in the movie mode but I hope they have left us with many options.

Did anyone say ND-filters?

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Henrik

I didn't think the jello was bad at all in that clip, and I'd even say I can't actually tell if the part with the guy in the white shirt was actually jello as opposed to any number of issues with software. (the note says it's his first time editing).

Given all the samples so far, the 5Dii seems better than the D90 by quite a bit. On an arbitrary scale of 1 to 10, with RED being 1, and an HV20 being a 2, I'd say that the 5Dii is a 4 or 5 and the D90 is a 8 or 9. The D90 wobbles with very minor pans. The 5Dii can do slow pans.

What that means is that maybe whip pans are out, but most other normal (sane?) camera movements are still possible.

cheers,
Chris

Bridges and the and fences in a scene are fine but I don't rock back and forth over them like some sort of pendulum. OK perhaps you would, but I don't because I produce video for a living every day and understand that it would look silly regardless of the camera used.

Clearly you are out of your element with this argument. By baiting over and over with this many experts, you've lost your credibility. I suppose you have no expectation of continuing in this forum with any credibility and you have not contributed significantly to this forum in the past. Clearly this discussion is not worth my time if by now you don't see my point.

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