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Thismyusername
02-11-2008, 03:23 PM
Hello

I have a general question, hope someone can help.

Watching TV tonight, news / docu stuff, I noticed the video camera on the intro was wandering around, and showed perfectly exposed sky, clouds, houses, shadows etc. all in the one shot. v- camera then moved indoors to show rooms, interiors, then panned around, a window comes into shot, and camera shows cars passing outside, through the window, people walking by, in the same shot as details of the rooms.

Try and capture that with a still camera, and you have huge problems, short of HDR, no way to let camera see such a range of tone. Dark room, lit window, sunlight, and outside the window in the same shot, much acceptably exposed stuff.

My question - how?

Are these TV video shots PP, different technology, wider DR or what?

Please answer if you know, I am very curious.

FYI I use G2 D-LUX3, K10d GX100. I like to take shots of interior with view through window, but no one camera I have can do this!

thanks

DR

Beowulff
02-12-2008, 07:11 AM
I don't have any idea of the technicalities involved, but I'd be guessing that a $40,000 network video camera would have a far greater dynamic range than any $1000 prosumer camera.

I think it's as simple as bang for bucks..... but I could be horribly wrong!

Cheers :)