Jim,

Will your Kodak PlaySport camera take C-Mount lenses?

Hunt

Apparently that assumption is invalid?

Kind of.  Stills from a DSLR are often higher quality than the video because they typically use the full image sensor, whereas most video output has been scaled and processed from the original capture to the HD frame size (and not always well).  Add to that many DSLR makers consider video a second-class citizen for their cameras.

The Panasonic GH3 will likely be announced on Monday.  Check that out before you buy.  If nothing else, you will start to see a lot of GH2 models on sale.  And that little baby can take a far cleaner image than your HDV model.  I recently applied one of the newest firmware hacks and shot some footage of my kids swimming.  I did some pixel peeping on the footage and a close up one one child splashing around feverishly produced not one single artifact, not one smidge of macroblocking, despite gobs of often difficult-to-encode water droplets flying about.  Every frame was pristine and very filmlike.

I was just thinking that since I can't afford a truly great full HD camera, maybe a DSLR would be fun.

That's how I ended up with the GH2.  My old camera bit the dust, and I just couldn't scrape up the funds for even a used HMC150 before my next gig.

That timing issue on the money turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  The hacked GH2 produces a superior image to any video camera costing several times the price.  I mean, the Panny 250 would turn out equally nice footage, but with it's 1/3 chip, I'd not get some of the beautiful bokeh I can with the GH2's 4/3 sensor.  And I can put on faster lenses for better low light performance as well.  So overall, that GH2 serves me very well.

I hope to add the GH3 soon as a second camera in the arsenal.  The image sure does look nice in the right hands.

https://vimeo.com/49420579

Steven,

I have been experiencing some wonky Internet behavior, since Friday, and not just with the Adobe Forums.

Links work one minute, but not the next. Timeouts on pages suddenly, when things were going along well just minutes before. On Friday, when I began observing these little "glitches," I posted this to the Forum Comments Forum: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1066373?tstart=0

Then, I was ONLY on the Adobe Forums, but now I am seeing it across the Internet. Maybe the whole world is watching that danged movie trailer?

Today, I have have ~ 10 timeouts, when attempting to post to the Adobe Forums, but things usually work the next time, or the next after that.

Hunt

PS - link worked for me first time.

Jim,

Somehow, I thought that you would go for a kit of Cooke primes.

Interesting to know what you are looking at.

Good luck,

Hunt

Yes, I can understand your point well. Not having done many quick moving events, I can see where a kit of good zooms would be a blessing. Being able to quickly frame up the bride falling into the fountain would be helpful.

Hunt