{"id":12457,"date":"2012-07-20T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T19:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2012-07-20T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:30:45","slug":"unsung-dslr-hero-defeats-competition-in-blind-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/unsung-dslr-hero-defeats-competition-in-blind-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsung DSLR Hero Defeats Competition In Blind Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Great Camera Shootout<\/a><\/em> by Chicago-based Zacuto has become an annual digest of what’s new in cinema cameras. For the last three years, the Emmy award-winning documentary series has been testing the hottest trends in digital film-making tools, from professional budget cameras down to affordable DSLRs, and comparing them to the golden standard, 35mm film. This year, the producers decided to shake things up a bit and offer something different — a blind test.<\/p>\n Instead of asking respected industry professionals to discuss the virtues of various cameras, the producers sat everyone down and projected nine clips of the same scene, as shot by nine different video\/cinema cameras. The camera lineup consisted of the Panasonic GH2, Canon 7D, Canon C300, Sony FS100, Sony F3, Sony F65, RED Epic, Arri Alexa, and the Apple iPhone 4S. The audience members were then asked to vote for which scene they felt was the most pleasing image, while not being told which camera they were seeing at any time. No biases, just judge with their eyes.<\/p>\n But Zacuto made it even more interesting with the scene’s release. The first part of the documentary introduced the concepts, cameras and the actual blind test footage, \u00a0which was labeled with letters A through I. Results and secrets weren’t revealed until\u00a0part two<\/a>\u00a0of the documentary, over a month later. This sparked all kinds of internet discussion on the topic, with forums creating their own polls and taking bets on which camera was which. \u00a0For the most part, many of the cameras could be determined based on the quality. \u00a0Camera D, for example, was clearly the iPhone, while cameras C, H, and F were clearly higher end and more expensive offerings.<\/p>\n