On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:43:46 GMT, "Bill Farnsworth" <bill.farnsworth@verizon.CUTOUTnet> wrote:

>So, I gets this call from an old friend yesterday to do a shoot in the

>southeast next week

>The interviews are to be shot on Digibeta with a green screen background.

>The B-roll was to be shot in film. (Don't ask. It's not relevant why

>anyway.)

>

>The director calls me again and says he convinced the Exec Producer to all

>on Digibeta with the idea of us grading the B-roll in post, THEN using Film

>Look Broadcast on the final output. OK. I can deal with that. (But I wanted

>to shoot it on film)

>Then the producer calls (not the exec. producer) and want to shoot the

>B-roll with a PD-150 at 1/30th and still have us grade it in post.

>Hmmm. Crap. Oh well...

>

>But wait a minute, since the B-roll is fairly simple and controlled I now

>have an opportunity to shoot Digi and mini at the same time, with the same

>lighting, the same filtering and the same post grading and final processing.

>And that's what I'll do. We'll let the producers decide which looks more

>like FILM...... NO! Which looks better ....... to them without knowing which

>is which.

>I'll let you all know the results in a few weeks.

>

>Bill F

If you shoot the PD150 at 1/30th, I can tell you

which will look better (it will look like crap! ;-).

It is hard enough to reduce/eliminate the "jaggies"

and other motion-ills with D25 compared with D50

(which can look VERY good in a 35mm transfer...! ;-)

without exaggerating them by dropping alternate

scan lines (and halving vertical resolution...)

by dropping the "shutter speed" below 1/60th...