On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:23:59 GMT, m.durliNOSPAM@bo.nettuno.it wrote:

>Hello,I have a question: the difference between films A (that you see
>at cinema or TV) and films B made with a cam (homemade)
>Sometimes inside films A there are clips that you can clearly see are
>taken with a normal cam (for example in the film there is a party and
>one of the actors goes around taping it,inside the film),and you can
>see the footage taken by the actor with the normal cam; I don't know
>how to explain,is not a question of quality,but they want to show you
>that that part of film it taken with a normal cam.
>I always thought: is a question of quality of the cam.
>
>But now I have seen in many documentaries,of travel for example,that
>they use a SONY DV ...1000,I have the VX700 that is quite similar,but
>their film is very different from mine,is much more like film A than
>film B,why?
>
>I expressed myself very very bad,mainly because english is not my
>language,but also because I don't know exactly how to explain what I
>call 'film effect'.

If I understand your question... (I'm always amazed when someone
tries to communicate a concept in a non-native language - very
difficult! ;-) I've owned both the one-chip VX-700 and three-chip
VX-1000, and the picture quality under most conditions was quite
different. Unless the one-chip footage was exposed VERY carefully,
it didn't look at all as good as the 3-chip (not so sharp, with
poorer color). At a particular level of low-light illumination,
the VX-700 could slightly beat the VX-1000 in image quality,
though... Also, the VX-1000 has manual controls for picture
AE bias, color saturation, color balance, and sharpness. And
the taking aperture can be specified, to optimize sharpness.
These can help produce a better picture... (Yesterday I was
shooting Fall color in a local gorge, and with everything
optimized, even leaves on distant trees were distinguishable
[the VX-700 does not permit that level of sharpness].)