Hey all. I've been looking around the forums here and I've noticed all the discussion of GL2s, but not as much the GL1s.
In short, I'm an indie filmmaker, and I want to get the best bang for my buck. In the past, I shopped around and bought a Panasonic PVGS-150... it was a great camera, good manual controls, decent quality for the price, rich rich colors, etc.. Unfortunately, the douchebag that broke into my car also saw the benefits of a consumer 3ccd camcorder, and stole it.
While I DID have it, I learned about deinterlacing from 30i to 30p with Magic Bullet, but after it took 13 hours to deinterlace 9 minutes of footage, I discovered the primary con of computer deinterlacing: all that freaking time it takes.
This is a short comedy I shot with my Panasonic camcorder, enhanced in Premiere Pro (saturated the colors, tweaked the gamma curves), and then deinterlaced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1dj0ahbzFI
The language is despicable, so if you have a sensitive sensibility, turn the volume off.
At any rate, the camera's been stolen, and I figure, I'll buy a camera that doesn't need deinterlacing to make a progressive/movie look video. I was all about buying a DVX100(or an A or B) until I realized that I was not going to be able to get a decent one for under 1500 dollars, and that even if I got one for 1500, it might be of dubious quality. Then, talking to another filmmaker, I was told that there are some used GL1s on the market for 7-800 dollars, and even if not that much, I could stand to pay a grand for a decent cam, but would have trouble justifying the costs of going HD or anything like that.
So I got to looking at the GL1... most of the people on YouTube with them don't seem to be trying very hard to get all that they can out of it, and a lot of the time the film look just ends up looking sort of like cheap NTSC converted to PAL... the motion doesn't look fluid like on film, it just looks like it's ghosting.
Also, it seems as though the GL1s ability to shoot in low-light conditions seems to be a downfall... it seems like it's hard to get a good rich black out of the shot (one of the things I loved about the DVX).
So I put it to you... if anyone here has some screen grabs of stuff they've shot on a GL1, or a good example (either shot by you or a commercial example) of what the best that can be extracted from a GL1 is, please post it.
I'm really excited about the possibilities this camera presents, but I can't buy the camera, shoot test footage, tweak it on my own, and then decide if I want to buy it. So, all you wonderful people, post what your GL1 can do.
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