Hi there. I am a film student. The cameras at school are Panasonic DVX100Bs. They are pretty good, 3 CCD chips. My camera at home is a very poor quality Canon ZR65MC with only 1CCD. The shot I'm doing requires a thinner camera than the one at school so I'm thinking of using the one I have at home, however the difference in quality I reckon would be very, very visible.
So my question is, Would shooting in Black & White increase the quality of my picture with a 1CCD chip camera? In my mind I figure since one chip isn't struggling to capture all Red and Green and Blue (which the 3CCD chip camera has one chip for each color) plus luminosity, maybe the picture detail would be better?
Any thoughts on this?
Shooting B&W won't increase the quality of the picture but excellent lighting will.
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Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
To qualify Certified Instigator's statement, shooting B&W won't improve picture quality, but since the biggest problem with 1CCD cameras is with color reproduction, shooting in B&W (or making the footage B&W in post--same difference) will hide many of those problems. In other words, shooting in B&W with a 1CCD camera is quite similar (although perhaps slightly noisier) to shooting in B&W on a 3CCD camera.
I would agree, however, that lighting is way more important than any of this, and that there's no fundamental reason that color footage from a 1CCD camera has to look bad.
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Andrew Gingerich
Exploding Goldfish Films
Check out my blog at http://www.exgfilms.com
and my reel at http://portfolio.exgfilms.com
