Vienna’s vineyards shot on Sony HX9V from Johnnie Behiri on Vimeo.
The video on top has been made by Johnni Behiri and BBC correspondent Bethany Bell: “we’ve decided to give the little Sony camera a try during a real short feature production.
The aim was not to astonish anyone with “VDSLR like” film look but to see how easy (or not) it is to work with it in the field.
Considering the fact that this camera is mostly automatic I am fairly happy with the end result. True, keeping the right exposure is almost impossible during a “run&gun” (look at the piece to camera) but I must admit that focusing (or playing with depth of field) were easier then I’ve expected.”
The HX9v is a compact camera you can get at [shopcountry 7597].
Crazy combination: Sony NEX-5 and his Carl Zeiss 300mm f/2.8 Tele-Superachromat T* lens at Kaisernchen. Actually that lens isn’t as expensive as you think. You can get it for cheap (used) on [shoplink 9231 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
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That 300mm Tele-Superchromat 300/2.8 is ONLY $32000 on ebay…
The one here in Europe is 33.600€ plus there is an excessive shipping fee of 15€ !
Honestly this Lens looks bloody expensive and it is.
Consider this it is for Medium format, it has Zeiss on it and it looks somehow modern and you never see those around because there probably only is a hand full of those, so it has to be expensive (what it actually is)
I mean you could also consider to mount Zeiss Ultraprimes on a Nex but what would be the point…
All I can say is WOW! Almost impossible to tell it’s being shot on a PNS camera.
I woder if they pixel peeped? They may not be so willing to use this camera if the RGB channels are too “noisy.”
This example is terrible. The movements are jerky and there is a lot of noise.
I have a HX9V too, and the above problems are *not* due to the camera but due to, as they write on Vimeo: “Footage was converted to Cineform before editing on Adobe Premiere CS2” – and who knows to what format…
I edit my HX9V footage using its 1920×1080 50p 28Mbps directly in the Sony Vegas Pro editor – and the quality is awesome and beats this example by – not a muzzle-hair – but by the whole horse.
I made the remark in jest. Too many people worry about the minutae without looking at the big picture, so to speak.
Yeah, a 2.8/300 by Zeiss is *NOT* a cheap lens. I’ve only found a couple on evilBay (one a prototype for Hassy mount, apparently with a matched 1.7x Zeiss TC — $32K; one in Contax mount — $14K.) The lens shown by Kaisern Chen appears to be a version of the Hassy — figure it at a minimum of $20K value.
What *is* surprisingly cheap (and relatively common) are Zeiss 300/f4 lenses.