Hello,
I am beginning a large book project which will involve movie style sets on location with a fair amount of action and many people on set to make still photographs. The goal in each case is one great photo. I have a Leaf Afi-ii 7, 33mp which shoots pretty fast and the quality is of course great. I will not be hopping around a lot with the camera - camera viewpoints will be carefully chosen, action will be choreographed and directed.
I am being asked to consider shooting with a Canon D5 in 10 fps video mode in order not to miss any lucky happenstance with all the action. I wonder what the resolution on a file like this would be relative to my Leaf? How would it look in a large format book with great reproductions relative to what I might get with the Leaf? And how would exhibition print quality compare?
I suspect that I'm better off with the Leaf on all counts - it won't be 10 fps, but the image quality will be so much better - any thoughts on this? My feeling is that you just have to make it happen right and shoot a lot.
Neil
Neil I am a bit confused by the question. You refer to a 10 frame per second video mode on a Canon D5. AFAIK No such thing exists.
You're either referring to a Canon 5D Mark II (aka 5DII) or a Canon 1D III.
The 5DII can capture video at 30 fps and 24fps. I am not aware of any 10fps video mode on a 5DII.
Or you mean a Canon 1D III which can shoot
stills at 10fps (10mp raw files) for a burst of (something like) 3 seconds.
Either way the question is a very easy one to answer.
The resulting frames from either of the above camera systems will not even be remotely similar in quality when used in a large format book or exhibition. The file produced by the Leaf system will be night-and-day different in terms of pure resolution, color fidelity, tonal smoothness, dynamic range, and - well frankly - any measure image quality standard.
Now that said, everyone agrees that mediocre content with great image quality is useless compared to great image content with mediocre image quality. So if you think (or if your own pre-production testing shows) that you can't reliably capture the content you need using the Leaf then that over-rides any image quality concerns.
However I think you will find, as many of our Leaf/Phase clients do, that the system is more than fast and responsive enough for such shoots and the image quality is more than worth the occasional "missed" frame, especially if you're in a shooting scenario where the action is not unique (e.g. sports or photojournalism) and you can repeat the action until you get it just right (and composite together similar frames on occasions where you cannot get all elements of the frame perfect in one shot).
As always only your own real-world-testing can tell you the definitive answer as to which system will be the best for your needs. But the short answer to your specific technical question is "no - not even close".
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