Experimenting with the HyperDeck Shuttle

So, I shot a sim­ple scene this evening: a sparkler, my Sony PMW-EX1 (over­cranked to 60fps), and the Shuttle.

The dif­fer­ences are pretty pro­nounced, there’s slightly more detail, less noise and less com­pres­sion arti­facts in the uncom­pressed footage. It’s also pretty huge, see pre­vi­ous post.

I think the footage looks nice and the Shut­tle is nice to have, but for many shots it’s prob­a­bly pure overkill., e.g. inter­views or sim­ple reg­is­tra­tions. It might be nice for (reflec­tive) water, shots with lots of motion and scenes with lit­tle avail­able light.

Shot with the EX1 (com­pressed), click for full size (1280*720)

Shot with the Shut­tle (uncom­pressed), click for full size (1280*720)

Shot with the EX1 (com­pressed), click for full size (1280*720)

Shot with the Shut­tle (uncom­pressed), click for full size (1280*720)

These exam­ples might be more obvi­ous if the light­box plu­gin wouldn’t dip to black, but there you go.