On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:34:00 GMT, "W. Keith McManus" <k_mcmanus@rochester.invalid> wrote:

>A camera that has higher horizontal resolution will produce a smoother

>image then one with less.

This can true for analogue gear, but as I pointed out

earlier, we are comparing one DV camera that is very

near the format limit in resolution with other DV cameras

that also are (the format resolution limit of DV is

defined, unlike for some parts of analogue video). Or,

if "X" is the absolute resolution limit, ALL camera systems

using this format will show no more than X -(small-quantity)

resolution, no matter how good their "front ends" are - so,

at best, at optimum stops of the lenses, the on-tape

resolution of gear *cannot* vary by very much, given all

good gear. With inferior gear, the resolution can sag

considerably below the limit - but that is not what we

were talking about; we were comparing a 520-530 line

capable camcorder with one claiming "800 lines", which

works out to *less* than 540 TV lines in reality - so I

correctly call this "hype", since it is misleading and

since to do 520 TV lines, a camcorder would also need to

have fairly close to "800-line" capability...

As I also pointed out, there may still be obvious quality

differences due to other causes (just not this one...;-).