D90 Jello Shots- Technical Explanations- CCD vs CMOS
[Update: due to popular demand, I've added the picture. If this gets me in trouble, for some reason, it your bastards' faults!]
D90 Jello-Shots!
Here’s a great article on why we’re seeing deliciously wobbly jello shots in movie mode on various SLR’s.
I was going to include this picture (mildy racy) to illustrate this story, but decided against it. Leave a comment if I didn’t make the right choice.
Tags: jello
September 29th, 2008 at 00:11
That picture is completely inappropriate. It should have been a video. Be more careful next time!
September 29th, 2008 at 00:20
Having watched the examples of the rolling shutter for both Nikon and Canon, it appears that this is only a problem with someone who hasn’t a clue, and is trying to jerk the camera around rapidly to prove a point. You can also demonstrate that it won’t survive violent shock by hitting it hard with a hammer. While this does show you can make the frame skew and wobble, it is far beyond normal video making, and any video that jerked the camera around this sharply would not be worth watching. Any halfway decent photographer can work around what has been shown so far.
I haven’t seen a problem with either camera with videos made in a proper manner. The Canon 5D does appear to have less of the artifacts, but is 2.6 times the price of the D90. As technology advances with faster cmos sensors, expect things to get much better.
October 4th, 2008 at 05:47
hehe… that picture is just brilliant!
I think the movie samples speak for themselves… at least those video’s I have seen in “normal” use doesn’t show this jello effect so it isn’t something which you can’t avoid. It also doesn’t seem limiting except maybe in very high action shoot. Fortunatly I’m mostly landscape and nature photographer so this feature will be used in “proper” manner hehe..
Only thing I wish that D90 have but doesn’t is full HD movie (1080p) but maybe that comes in the more expensive D3x or D4.