Sony Professional HVR-Z1U 3CCD High Definition Camcorder with 12x Optical Zoom

The HVR-Z1U seems too good to be true. And it promises ist.Es a camera with full HD resolution and outstanding features at an affordable price. In many ways it offers. The video quality is better than the JVC HDV camera. Unlike the JVC, the camera provides full manual control and is a pleasure to work with professionally drehen.Ach – for someone who expects and needs full HD resolution, the Sony a disappointment. With the camera with a resolution chart while viewing the output on a high resolution monitor (or on a computer after rendering to 1080i or 1080p) quickly became clear that more than 1200 lines of horizontal resolution and vertical resolution is slightly more than 500.Die Number of pixels is therefore approximately twice that of standard video, not four times, as we had perhaps hoped. The 1200 lines of horizontal resolution is quite good – just about the same as 720p. But is not the vertical resolution gut.Ein very little math tells the story. Sony advertises 1st 1M pixels for each sensor, and 1440 lines horizontally. 1. 1M/1440 a maximum of 770 lines vertical, not 1080, as promised. The measured vertical and horizontal resolution is clearly niedriger.Eine extensive web search revealed that the sensor has 1080 vertical lines, but only about 990 lines horizontally. To achieve something closer to 1440 horizontal lines of the green sensor is offset by half a pixel and image processing is used to give a possible maximum resolution of 1440 on a black-and-white image. The problem is that the edge contrast, more than 900 lines of horizontal wird.Erschwerend very bad matters worse, (or conform to lower the vertical resolution to the horizontal) read out the vertical lines of the sensor in pairs so that each field is a mixture of two neighboring lines. This gives the vertical edge of the contrast of the same bad Horizontalen.Es with the tool is Unsharp Mask “is possible in Sony Vegas (or improve other editors) to the edge contrast. I use the maximum effect with minimum radius of the Sony tool – setting the radius slider. 001 pixels. You need to do the sharpening operation with a setting of 1440×1080 properties. Slightly better results by making a mask additional “Disarm” in series with the first half to effect achieved allocation.A big problem is deinterlace. Most editors (and most display devices) deinterlace by averaging the fields, which reduces the maximum vertical resolution to 540 lines. You can add Mike Crash’s excellent deinterlacer for sharpening masks and remove this restriction. Crash’s smart deinterlace for Vegas are free – with patience and perseverance werden.Schärfen downloaded and deinterlacing the image is very hard to calculate. It takes a good fraction of a week to do up to two hours movie on a 3 GHz Pentium 4. But the result is breathtaking. With the tightening of the Sony camera can give you a result that is a professional HD camera in the vicinity. I do to WMV9 instead of MPEG2 – remember to keep the properties to 1440×1080. After make is finished, you can re-render to 720p, raising an additional bit to compensate for re-Interpolation.Die best results ever, with an exposure time of 60 fps or higher. I have mixed results with the option ‘Steady Shot was. Hold the camera as still as possible and try not to get more video than absolutely necessary to verwenden.Bottom line – the camera produces video that is better than standard video MUCH, and much better than DV. But it would be awfully nice if a camera that delivered the advertised resolution do, and he did it with a flat video Frequenzgang.Bewertung: 3 / 5