An In Depth Look at the AF-100 In Action

That's not how that brake light's suppose to look!

Stunning Good Looks over at the ProVideo Coalition has a nice fairly in-depth look at shooting with Panasonic's AF-100.  The article covers the strengths of the camera and the limitations, including a tendency to clip the chroma values of the camera.  As you can you see in the picture above, the brake lights of the car are suppose to be an orange red, not yellow.

The article points out the many strengths of the camera too, especially how the images benefit from the large sensor, but overall you can't help but feel a little disappointed about the limitations of the 8-bit AVCHD codec.   Bottom line, if you can control the lighting, the camera shines. But under many real world conditions the camera presents some issues to work through.

Read the article here.