National Geographic Channel HD uses HV20s!

[Erik Bien]

I turned on NatGeoHD this morning and watched a little bit of Police Tech: Stolen Car — does the camera on the passenger side look familiar? (I rewound the DVR to be sure.) And on a car mount, no less!

The Exec. Prod./DoP reveals in his blog that the camera he used for the hand-held shots costs $150K. The HV's rolling shutter wobble seems more obvious in this web clip than in the HD broadcast. Even so, they cut together pretty well!

[Ian-T]

The footage did cut together well. Impressive. I wonder which other cam they shot with? Also, wonder if they tethered the cam to record bypassing the HDV?

[DCX104]

"At later shoots, I was burned by a high-energy beam, blinded and disoriented by random patterns of colored light and sent into uncontrollable convulsions by a taser. All just another day on the job while shooting for National Geographic."


Ouch.

[Rumpelgeist]

Rolling shutter effect looks awful. No, simply intolerable. I am amazed that this crap made it to a major network TV.

[net]

"National Geographic Channel HD uses HV20s!"

Who gets to pocket the savings?

[Dr. Benway]

Joe the Plumber.