16 Sep 11 SONY VG-20 Testing

As you understand by now the Sony VG-20 appears to be the only one of Sony’s newly announced big sensor cameras that has a cleanse hdmi output (no overlays or photo in picture).
Theoretically the benefit of the cleanse hdmi output is the actuality that we are able to record the feed directly to a harddisk recorder such as the Atomos Ninja so keeping clear of the poor inside AVCHD compression and giving us much better quality and color correction possibilities in post.

At the IBC 2011 exhibition we obtained the opportunity to check the hdmi output of the VG-20 and you can see the final results within the movie above. around the left hand side are very minimal compression jpeg screenshots of the movie to give you a much better idea how the authentic footage definitely looks like as it is compressed to 8mbit and more on YouTube.

This is not really a scientific test, merely a fast grab of some footage to get a very first idea of what we could assume from this camera. And to be honest, our shitty recordings are sufficient to create up my mind: This digital camera fails for me!

The results:
Unfortunately what we obtained out of the hdmi port of the VG-20 was only marginally much better searching compared to VG-20 inside AVCHD recording. if you can see what I see you may agree that the hdmi signal looks like it has undergone very much processing. There wasn’t much light at the Sony booth so the cameras are shooting very minimal light, but to me it looks like there is definitely a whole lot of compression noise, even around the Atomos footage. maybe the picture is compressed prior to it gets sent out to hdmi. What would you guys think? inform me within the comments.

I have incorporated a even now of the HX9v+Atomos grab as nicely as the noise looiks absolutely different there, more like actual sensor noise (small dots) as opposed to the big blocky noise I can see within the vg20+Atomos footage here.
Maybe I’m doing the digital camera some injustice since the lighting disorders had been definitely bad. regrettably the digital camera was chained to the table.

Despite the 7D getting away from focus at one point, overall it looks much less sharp compared to VG-20. even so the sharpness within the VG-20 footage looks a great deal like it has gone through a heavy sharpening filter.
And our pals at eosHD had been right: There’s also a whole lot of aliasing and some moiré within the footage, much more than there will need to be, to an extend that I’d suggest to not purchase this camera, any Canon DSLR will do as great as nicely as the HX9v will do much better (albeit not getting a true movie alternative).
How can a movie digital camera have aliasing like this? Scary.

SONY VG-20 Testing Video