High color setting on Panasonic HDC20

[GlennChan]

This is my first post here and I'm wondering if anyone here has played with the Panny HDC-20. I've looked at the BBC settings for this camera (Alan Roberts: thank you!) and followed them, but I don't get good results by turning high color off.

The image below has the BBC settings, with high color off.
http://glennchan.info/Proofs/forums/dvdoctor/BBCorig.jpg

The image below is the graded version.
http://glennchan.info/Proofs/forums/dvdoctor/BBCgraded.jpg

My problem with the high color setting is that it makes flesh tones look really quirky, and I can't seem to color correct that away! With the camera in its normal settings, the flesh tones look normal.
*I later discovered that the colorimetry setting in the camera was off (240M instead of 274M I think), although I don't believe that changes things. Yes, color accuracy is pretty whacked but in later experimentation, the same results held.

Glenn Chan

[Alan Roberts]

I didn't think the HDC20 ever made it to market, it was one of the cameras Panssonic made in the run-up to 1080, resulting in the 27F and the HDX range. I last looked at it early in 2002, when I told them that I liked it but there were things they needed to do about it. I never expected it to go public. The later cameras (27H, HDX900, HVX200) are much better.

But you shoud never use 240M colorimetry, unless you're shooting for the defunct Japanese 1035 system.

[GlennChan]

Ryerson university has several of the HDC20s. I don't know if that camera made it to market though.

[Alan Roberts]

It's a nice camera, a bit noisy and a bit crude in some of its controls, but the pictures are nice. It was my first experience of DVCProHD.

Send me a Personal Message if you want to talk details, and we can talk off the board.