This was the camera I used for the three-shot in the video in my previous post, Rachael’s Cafe [pt. 4 of 5]. This was a pretty nice camera to get to use. However, they are somewhat “out of date.” One of them randomly died on me, so that might be true. It just stopped being able to turn on. At least I didn’t have to pay for it. The camera felt nice and steady most of the time. For the grand opening of Rachael’s Cafe [pt. 5 of 5] I had to shoot in a cramped environment [packed in with a lot of mingling people drinking alcohol], and had to look through the eyehole to save the battery power. So accept for sticking out so far in front of you, it was really nice to use for all of that. Here is another video I shot with it on a sunny day, hopefully showing you more about its image quality and how it captures light and color:
Bone Marrow and Muscle Fibers from Nicholas Peters on Vimeo.
–Also noteable, is that this was recorded using the built-in microphone on the top of the camera. We were at a festival of sorts, with music being played over a PA behind us, and Alex Arnold wasn’t singing very loudly, so I just got as close to him as I could. I think it sounds really good considering the environmental conditions.–
The two different technologies employed for capturing color in most digital video cameras these days are called CCD and CMOS. The Sony DSR-VX2100 has a 3 CCD system, one CCD for each of the RGB sections of the color spectrum.
Here is a very practical, simplified comparison of CCD and CMOS imagers
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