twistlick Posted July 11, 2009 Share #1 Â Posted July 11, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I love the D-Lux 4's video recording! I'm a filmmaker & picked up the D-lux 4 because I needed a good point & shoot camera with a wide angle. I was stunned by how interesting the look of the HD video is coming out of this little camera. The crazy wide angle + low light capability + the Photo-Jpeg Codec makes for really unique looking footage. I'd peg it more to between a Super8 & 16mm filmstock. Â I hope Leica continues to enhance the video capabilities in the next model and include controls for the exposure in video. But please don't switch to the awful AVCHD codec that all the camcorders are switching to these days. Â Anybody else use the video feature extensively on the D-lux 4? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ceflynn Posted July 11, 2009 Share #2 Â Posted July 11, 2009 I have seen a short video made with the D-Lux 4 and played back with QuickTime, and it was impressive. I have no idea why so few people seem to make use of this feature. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
prk60091 Posted July 11, 2009 Share #3 Â Posted July 11, 2009 I love the D-Lux 4's video recording! I'm a filmmaker & picked up the D-lux 4 because I needed a good point & shoot camera with a wide angle. I was stunned by how interesting the look of the HD video is coming out of this little camera. The crazy wide angle + low light capability + the Photo-Jpeg Codec makes for really unique looking footage. I'd peg it more to between a Super8 & 16mm filmstock. Â I hope Leica continues to enhance the video capabilities in the next model and include controls for the exposure in video. But please don't switch to the awful AVCHD codec that all the camcorders are switching to these days. Â Anybody else use the video feature extensively on the D-lux 4? Â can you or anyone post a link to a youtube clip??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted July 12, 2009 Share #4 Â Posted July 12, 2009 Maybe it would be more accurate to thank panasonic, they lead in this field Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceflynn Posted July 12, 2009 Share #5 Â Posted July 12, 2009 Â Â YouTube - Leica D-Lux 4 at dark light on the street HD (The sound is not from the D-Lux 4.) Â Â Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalina Posted July 12, 2009 Share #6  Posted July 12, 2009 I use the D-Lux 4 extensively for video. My Youtube videos from 6/1 onward all use my D-Lux 4 and a few earlier ones do, too, but I'm no longer sure which they are. I had to use a CameraBright light for all of them.  YouTube - Kanal von kalinaisato  I guess the arm wrestling video might be the funniest one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveleo Posted July 12, 2009 Share #7 Â Posted July 12, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) the quality of your video clips is excellent. they do look somewhat SUPER8 -ish. Â how large are the file sizes ? .... approximately how many Mb per minute? Â i made some video clips last week with my beloved D2 and they were horrid! (they were about 10Mb per minute at 320x240 / 10fps and the image quailty was nowhere near what you have shown) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistlick Posted July 13, 2009 Author Share #8  Posted July 13, 2009 A 1 minute HD clip (1280x720) is around 119MB.  The image is grungy, saturated & noisy like a Super 8 filmstock. It's not very clean but that's part of what I find makes it look unique. I find I use the Leica more than my dedicated video camera. The downsides are it not having any zoom capability, no exposure control, no mic input.   how large are the file sizes ? .... approximately how many Mb per minute? i made some video clips last week with my beloved D2 and they were horrid! (they were about 10Mb per minute at 320x240 / 10fps and the image quailty was nowhere near what you have shown) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceflynn Posted July 13, 2009 Share #9  Posted July 13, 2009 Try this experiment.  Play a DVD or Blu-ray disc on your TV, and record a minute or so with the D-Lux 4. Play the resulting mov file using Apple’s QuickTime player on your computer monitor. If you are not impressed with the result, something other than your D-Lux 4 needs an upgrade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35photo Posted July 16, 2009 Share #10  Posted July 16, 2009 Here is 2 clips I shot with the D-Lux 4 in Serbia this past may of my cousin and uncle. I was pleased with the quality and plan to play around with the video feature more in the future....    PS: watch them with the HD button on  Marko Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenonzinonos Posted July 17, 2009 Share #11 Â Posted July 17, 2009 Impressive - did you use a tripod when filming the piano player? It's very sharp with no camera movement (which I think is a major problem with p&s video generally) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35photo Posted July 17, 2009 Share #12 Â Posted July 17, 2009 Impressive - did you use a tripod when filming the piano player? It's very sharp with no camera movement (which I think is a major problem with p&s video generally) Â Nope, everything I shot was handheld Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david@blumenfeld.com Posted August 9, 2009 Share #13 Â Posted August 9, 2009 blumenfeld.com all the b/w in this video was shot with the d-lux!! Enjoy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35photo Posted August 10, 2009 Share #14 Â Posted August 10, 2009 blumenfeld.com all the b/w in this video was shot with the d-lux!! Enjoy. Â Nice work. Over the weekend I was curious to see how the video looked on a 42" plasma screen. So I burned a DVD of a few clips and WOW the image really holds its own, looks great considering the source....Can't wait to do more with it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo035 Posted August 10, 2009 Share #15 Â Posted August 10, 2009 I have seen a short video made with the D-Lux 4 and played back with QuickTime, and it was impressive. I have no idea why so few people seem to make use of this feature. I bought a D-Lux 4 purely to take "still" photographs, the fact that it has a video capability (however good it might be) had no influence in my decision. It seems to me that incorporating Video into digital cameras was just a gimmick to boost initial sales... one of those add-ons, like putting a camera of sorts in to a mobile /cell phone :-) No doubt building a telephone into a digital camera will be the next step in this Techno-Crazy world...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dicko101 Posted August 10, 2009 Share #16 Â Posted August 10, 2009 Good to hear people making use of advancements in camera technology rather than decrying it. The GH1's video is also of a very high quality and when in high ISOs in B/W and Vivid colour, looks quite filmic with a touch of grunge. It it does encode AVCHD but computers are their way to being able to edit it much more easily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted August 14, 2009 Share #17 Â Posted August 14, 2009 Anybody else use the video feature extensively on the D-lux 4? Here is 2 clips I shot with the D-Lux 4 in Serbia this past may of my cousin and uncle. blumenfeld.com all the b/w in this video was shot with the d-lux!! Enjoy. Â David, Marko, twis, others-- Very interesting stuff. Hadn't thought of using the D-Lux 4 for video, but you're getting me interested. Â How easy are the files to edit? What editing apps do you recommend? (My platform is Mac, but I'm sure others would also be curious.) Â Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_parker Posted August 14, 2009 Share #18 Â Posted August 14, 2009 The one frustration that I have with the D-Lux 4 video mode, which I think is excellent, is that it won't play on a Panasonic TV's native video playback (modern Panasonic TV's accept a Secure Digital card and will play video back if recorded on certain cameras) - I believe it may be something to do with the EXIF data, or lack of it. Â You would think that since the camera has Panasonic roots, it would be something they could fix. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgenper Posted August 14, 2009 Share #19  Posted August 14, 2009 David, Marko, twis, others--Very interesting stuff. Hadn't thought of using the D-Lux 4 for video, but you're getting me interested.  How easy are the files to edit? What editing apps do you recommend? (My platform is Mac, but I'm sure others would also be curious.)  Thanks.  Works just great on a Mac; QuickTime plays them right away.  Haven´t tried editing, but I presume iMovie can handle them. For just simle cutting out unwanted parts, QuickTimePro does it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
35photo Posted August 14, 2009 Share #20 Â Posted August 14, 2009 David, Marko, twis, others--Very interesting stuff. Hadn't thought of using the D-Lux 4 for video, but you're getting me interested. Â How easy are the files to edit? What editing apps do you recommend? (My platform is Mac, but I'm sure others would also be curious.) Â Thanks. Â I've edited video from the D-Lux4 on my mac with no problems whatsoever. I used iMovie 08 just imported the .mov files and started it was really easy. I also hadn't really thought about using the D-Lux of video until I was in Serbia and I was showing the camera and its features to my uncle. He was like lets shoot some video, and I was ok let do it....We were really amazed what the quality was like. So ever since then I've come up with some ideas on a few little projects to use video with. Yeah, its really limited in terms of not being able to zoom while shooting or manually adjusting exposure. I'm sure that will change in the feature. So its a creative challenge to see what I can do with what I've got, and I'm totally up for that! Â Marko Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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