"John Hong" <jhong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote in message news:bke4hj$9ba$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca...

> I'm about to shoot an independent movie with a PD150. Would it be

> a good idea to shoot in the 16x9 mode? The producer intends to blow it up

> onto 35mm film.

Unless 16:9 is specified, I'd shoot 4:3 for 4:3 film transfer - you want to

retain every bit of resolution you can for this. If it MUST be 16:9, I'd look

at cameras with 16:9 CCDs (and I would probably be looking at D50

instead of D25 - or even HDTV...).