Which better 3CCD or CMOS

[jaegersing]

jaegersing: It's nice to have the best source no matter what nasty thing may happen down the pipeline. Unfortuantely "consumer" video formats nowadays don't justify the extra cost of a better source.

When you say "consumer video formats" are you talking about DVD itself? DVD gives good enough results that you can easily see big differences between sources of different quality. If you don't mean DVD, then what? DV is also 4:2:0 colour sampling (for PAL of course) yet you can differentiate between good DV cams and cheap n cheerful DV cams very easily, especially in not so ideal lighting conditions.

 

[Anti-Social]

Anti-Social: Wikipedia is as good as it is. People use it and edit it, but a lot of this information may be learnt from layman text or even advertisement - which is what the majority are well exposed to. In short, chroma resolution and color reproduction are two different things. You may believe in what you believe in and I don't feel like wasting other people's time arguing with an uninformed.

Oh look who's talking? Well Mr."informed" if wikipedia is wrong then prove its wrong. No evidence dun talk #### :nono:

Well what youre believing is wrong and don't spread that infomation and stop wasting our time with redaundent info.

 

[Ansel]

Was at Sitex to check out the two models I was looking at.

Guess what I ended up with?

Got persuaded to buy the prosumer JVC HD-7.

It uses a 3CCD 1/5 inch sensor, with 60GB harddisk, and Fujinon Pro lens. I have gone for a prosumer model instead because the techie in me still believes in the quality of FULL HD at source rather than AVCHD. Only concern is Harddisk crash. :cry:

 

[jaegersing]

Was at Sitex to check out the two models I was looking at.

Guess what I ended up with?

Got persuaded to buy the prosumer JVC HD-7.

It uses a 3CCD 1/5 inch sensor, with 60GB harddisk, and Fujinon Pro lens. I have gone for a prosumer model instead because the techie in me still believes in the quality of FULL HD at source rather than AVCHD. Only concern is Harddisk crash. :cry:

FULL HD refers to resolution only, nothing to do with the codec. HD-7 is using MPEG2 TS which should be good, but review I saw is not very positive about the imager quality.

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/JVC-GZ-HD7-Camcorder-Review/Format.htm

 

[malcom7373]

I personally is still doing research on 3CCD and 3CMOS. If we are to compare the 3CCD to one CMOS of course it is not really comparable even though we talked about HD.

From what I know of, 3CCD camcorders will tend to be smaller unlike the 3CMOS, they can be huge. Through time I suppose once they refine it like the way 3CCD has revolutionised thorugh the years; one day it will surpass the current 3CCDs.

Well, from my own point of view, at present CMOS cannot beat 3CCD if we talk about overall performance, noise level and sharpness; but may not be the case of 3CMOS though. But I guess after another round of revolution change hopefully those 3CMOS will become smaller and improve. I will be eyeing on one good set soon maybe by end of coming year.

Anyone to share?

 

[viewwing]

Both CCD (charge-coupled device) and CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor) image sensors boht have the same function.... to convert light into electrons.

The different is CCD = more expensive to manufacture, handles noise better BUT consumes more power...
well CMOS is much cheaper to manufacture and yeah... its slightly noiser... also if you leave the camera on for a longer period of time... the hotter the cmos is the more noise you'll get eventually but save power... so for the same xxxxmah on ur battery u get more time on it...

So depending on your shooting style...

if you have the $$$ CCD is the sure winner...

 

[jacknow45]

I was wondering if anybody has tried out the Flip Video camera?



http://bestvideoforthemoney.blogspot.com/

 

[ywh]

Both sensor types have their pros and cons and one should look further than that when considering a camera. The lens itself plays a huge part and when looking at cameras with non-interchangeable lenses, that plays an even more important role.

 

[malcom7373]

I agree with you. Guess will be a while before the 3 CMOS can be really improved.

As for the heat dissipated. This is of a certain concern cos all electronics may it be the top range, given the fact that they do have some operating temperature; usually -10 degrees to as high as 70 degrees, I am sure this can tend to shorten the lifespan of the set.

I use to do U/W shots using the conventional cameras and they are really hot plus the condensation is also higher if the inside temperature is higher. Therefore, if I were to consider for video, looks like 3CCD will still be the better option than the 3CMOS for now.

Fingers crossed that 3CMOS can really make their mark by end of 2008.

 

[eyew28]

I'm tossing up b/w those two models as well. What's a good price / shop for those models that have been spotted lately ?