Freedom102007
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Here two quickly assembled (iMovie '09, Motion JPEG format) demos, actually my first shots with the new and tiny device.
First clip: The last minutes of Joseph Haydn's "Kaiserlied" (nowadays the German national anthem) in the Votiv church in Vienna. I was really surprised because the church is mostly closed and I didn't even know (although I am living just around the corner) that they have such an impressive organ in it. The sound was recorded live together with the pictures (no dubbing). Very difficult lights in the church. More a sound demo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg3icGqjufI
Second clip: A sound, wide angle and o.i.s. demo. All shots made in the streets of Vienna, Austria, without tripods or any other stabilization. At the end a church choir. They stood in a very dark corner with heavy and direct backlights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDt7Qp2Ad4
Just my two Eurocents from the position of a moviemaker:
Pros:
Size, price, performance. Very good images (video and photo) and sound. 25 mm are really impressive together with the high resolution. Image stabilization works pretty well. iA mode works perfect - pan from macro in shadows direct to landscape in bright sun, move from artificial tungsten light to outside in one shot without adjusting anything. Very easy to handle, very lightweight. Bright, large and sharp monitor. I can hold it for a long time without any efforts. HD video in you shirt pocket! Option: Underwater casing available. Good tips here ad dpr for additional lenses. Unobtrusive, non-prof appearance (nobody believes that you are making a high res movie, they think you need decades for a simple photo ;-)
Cons:
Very hard to get accessoires, no original battery (very expensive) available in complete Europe! (I've ordered a third-party product yesterday.) Vertical smear artifacts on video when there are direct and intensive sources of light (or reflections) in the image. Microphones very sensitive for wind noises (as almost all camcorders--I try to get some fitting windscreens for it).
First clip: The last minutes of Joseph Haydn's "Kaiserlied" (nowadays the German national anthem) in the Votiv church in Vienna. I was really surprised because the church is mostly closed and I didn't even know (although I am living just around the corner) that they have such an impressive organ in it. The sound was recorded live together with the pictures (no dubbing). Very difficult lights in the church. More a sound demo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg3icGqjufI
Second clip: A sound, wide angle and o.i.s. demo. All shots made in the streets of Vienna, Austria, without tripods or any other stabilization. At the end a church choir. They stood in a very dark corner with heavy and direct backlights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDt7Qp2Ad4
Just my two Eurocents from the position of a moviemaker:
Pros:
Size, price, performance. Very good images (video and photo) and sound. 25 mm are really impressive together with the high resolution. Image stabilization works pretty well. iA mode works perfect - pan from macro in shadows direct to landscape in bright sun, move from artificial tungsten light to outside in one shot without adjusting anything. Very easy to handle, very lightweight. Bright, large and sharp monitor. I can hold it for a long time without any efforts. HD video in you shirt pocket! Option: Underwater casing available. Good tips here ad dpr for additional lenses. Unobtrusive, non-prof appearance (nobody believes that you are making a high res movie, they think you need decades for a simple photo ;-)
Cons:
Very hard to get accessoires, no original battery (very expensive) available in complete Europe! (I've ordered a third-party product yesterday.) Vertical smear artifacts on video when there are direct and intensive sources of light (or reflections) in the image. Microphones very sensitive for wind noises (as almost all camcorders--I try to get some fitting windscreens for it).
