White Paper 034 Addendum 9: Tests on Sony DVW 790WSP, Digibeta camcorder

Alan Roberts

Abstract

Assessment was made on a normal digibeta camcorder.

Other addenda in this series have been produced in order to record setsof preferred menu settings, mainly for film-look shooting. Theperformance measurements made in testing those cameras have not beenpublished, even in the restricted form of these addenda. This addendumis different, in that it is the measurements that are interesting,since they form the base performance level of state-of-the-art SDTVcamcorders, the reference point from which HDTV camcorders can bejudged.

Accordingly, this addendum lists all the menus available in thecamcorder, but not in the same detail as for other camcorders in theother addenda, since it is not intended that the settings derived hereshould be used as a ""BBC preferred"" setting. Significant items areshown, and measurement results and calculations are given.

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