"Gary P" <askme@newsgroup> wrote in message news:blupl5$c2i470@imsp212.netvigator.com...

> "Moving Vision" <mv@movingvision.co.uk> wrote in message

> news:pBllgUJLVsg$Ewg$@movingvision.demon.co.uk...

> > As for the much hyped DVX100 S-curve (Hey! Shoot on a high grade

> > analogue such as Beta SP if you want to mitigate the steppy bit rate of

> > digital) and that other bunch of rhubarb, progressive scan. None of it

> > looks like film. If you want a film look then shoot on film!

> I'm not interested in it for the film look but because it should

> theoretically give more detail in the blacks or in formerly washed out

> overexposed areas. After all we sometimes DO have to shoot people in front

> of windows in situations we can't light the hell out of.

Why not do this in post, where you can do it right (Premiere offers

both gamma and levels filters, and SMC offers a two-point plug-in

tone-adjust filter). As I understand it, the Panasonic is interesting

in the lower tonal values, but cuts suddenly to white in the

highlights with the curve filter switched on; the VX2000/PD150

does not do this, even with the filters added in post. Once you

have full white on tape, there is no recovery possible...