The YouTube clip that "sold me" on the D-Lux 4 video quality

[AlbertoDeRoma]

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A major consideration in deciding to get the D-Lux 4 was its ability to take an occasional HD video - without having to carry another device. I read all the reviews,

video clinched it for me.

 

It's not perfect (e.g., I can see the vertical light stripe after the cloud shot, time is limited and there is no zoom or refocusing) but I love those colors and the 16:9 ratio.

 

Check the YouTube video out if you haven't already (make sure you click on the HD button to see it in HD.)

 

Alberto

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[kalina]

If you're open to different things, check out my vids. The most recent ones are done with a D-Lux 4 in ambient light. The f/2.0 lens is what sold me on the camera. I have a Sanyo Xacti with an f/1.8 lens and I don't use it it much because the video on the D-Lux 4 is actually just as good, if not better.

 

YouTube - Opening Reception for my "Clublife" Gallery 11/13/09

YouTube - Kalina at Monday Night Tgirls 11/2/2009

YouTube - Kalina at Monday Night Tgirls 5/4/2009

 

These are all handheld videos. The vid you linked to was done on a tripod, so my vids are a better representative of what the D-Lux 4 can really do. In sum, the D-Lux 4 is great for video.

[ho_co]

All nice stuff. Thanks to both of you for the links!

[rob_x2004]

Save your dollars then and have a look at the FZ35. It will eat your Dlux alive.

[AlbertoDeRoma]

Save your dollars then and have a look at the FZ35. It will eat your Dlux alive.

 

Thanks for the pointer. I already spend my dollars on the D-Lux 4 and I have absolutely no regrets. The FX35 looks great (I just saw/read several reviews) but its form factor is not what I was looking for when I bought the Leica. Having said that, I am going to look into the FX35 as an addition/back-up because it has a lot of interesting features (especially the manual movie mode - and the powerful and usable zoom of course) I could use. Thanks again for directing my attention to that camera.

 

Alberto

[mati22]

for my opinion there is a little bit too often "awful", "good stuff" and "wonderful" in this forum. compliments used inflationary are worth not very much. can't see what is the quality on the vids from kalina, it's a home- and private video, yes, rather good picture quality, yes, but aperture can't be managed manually in the video-modus and you can see that. pan shot is only possible, when light is the same on both sides. better is not to move the camera in complicated light-situations. a nice person explains smething, that's what you can see- really "good stuff"? look at this, this is really "good stuff", in my opinion: http://blumenfeld.com/

mathias

[daveleo]

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mati22

 

you link to a very nice, professional video. do you know what equipment was used, video / audio postprocessing software?

 

it's probably not fair to compare that video to the videos people posted on this particular thread .... they never had the same purpose ....

 

i recently bought the LX3 partly to shoot casual video clips, also without carrying around two cameras. i really do *not* like the LX3 videos (i have learned that my D2 actually makes nicer looking movies !), but all things considered it does what i bought it for.

[ho_co]

eleo--

Blumenfeld posted that link here previously. All the black-and-white is from D-Lux 4. Color from something more "serious." 'Search' function will probably reveal the whole short thread.

 

I think it's intriguing that people are venturing to make and post such good work from such an "underpowered" camera.

 

I like the D-Lux 4 quite a bit but use it only for stills (not into video) and am very impressed at what it can turn out in that field as well.

[kalina]

for my opinion there is a little bit too often "awful", "good stuff" and "wonderful" in this forum. compliments used inflationary are worth not very much. can't see what is the quality on the vids from kalina, it's a home- and private video, yes, rather good picture quality, yes, but aperture can't be managed manually in the video-modus and you can see that. pan shot is only possible, when light is the same on both sides. better is not to move the camera in complicated light-situations. a nice person explains smething, that's what you can see- really "good stuff"? look at this, this is really "good stuff", in my opinion: David Blumenfeld Photography

mathias

 

I'm not sure of everything you're trying to say, but, yes, I agree Blumenfeld's work is great, but he's actually *trying* to be a film producer. A lot of us, perhaps most of us, are not trying to film video professionally, so videos such as mine where they are shot in a dark club show you what the average person can do with the D-Lux 4.

 

I agree that there is way to much praise and negativity when commenting on pics and vids without justifying why the praise or negativity was given. Having had some small success in the music world, I can tell you that I received lots of emails saying "your music sucks" as well as lots of praise. Sometimes art cannot be explained. It is a feeling within you and if the artist pushes the right buttons, the viewer will praise him or her. If art elicits a negative response from the viewer, the viewer will say it sucks.