August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
12h 22m
English

DV Softener
Applications
Guerilla filmmakers are always trying to squeeze the highest quality images out of the lowest budget equipment. One common goal is to use a prosumer-grade DV camcorder to obtain film-grade images. There are a number of guides on the Internet with suggestions for obtaining these results. One problem that I haven’t seen addressed is the level of sharpness in a DV image.
Film is essentially an analog image, so the exposure is even across the entire exposed frame. Digital pictures capture images using small blocks of color called pixels. For this reason, a DV picture is overly sharp and can even feature jagged edges or stair ...