FOCUSING
The Problem with HD
Today’s crop of prosumer HD cameras offers us unprecedented image quality comparable to cameras that cost two to three times as much just a few years ago. We can now shoot crisp, clean HD footage with 720 or 1080 lines of horizontal resolution (more or less double standard definition resolution) that rivals the image quality of much more expensive cameras.
However, there’s one HUGE problem that comes with this brave new world of inexpensive high-res HD…we’re still shooting with little tiny 3" LCD monitors. So we’re using a 3" picture to judge focus on video that will be viewed on a 50" screen. The end result when you get back home and view your footage on that 50" flat screen TV is often an embarrassing number of ...
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