Hawaii Wedding Video Cameras

The choice between CCD or CMOS for a wedding videographer is influenced by the equipment manufacturer’s pairing of imager and recording format. Videographers recording format is tied to their work flow and a decisive factor in choosing a camera.

CCD is a charge coupled device where all the photo cell sites are active at the same time. Having all the photo sites active and output simultaneously, a CCD global shutter produces a motion image free from rolling shutter, image tearing or jello effect because the frame is captured all at once. CCD imagers are highly regarded by videographers for production as evident by their dominant usage within the TV broadcast industry and their multi-camera studios.

The CMOS or complimentary metal oxide semiconductor captures the image line by line. If the videographer pans while shooting, a rolling, tearing, or jello like effect in the video image may result depending upon the speed of the pan and camera used. CMOS imagers are less demanding on the camera battery. CMOS imagers are widely used in still photography cameras and later combination still and video cameras. The captured image quality from professional grade CMOS sensor cameras is very good and should be highly regarded.

Beyond the images, professional video cameras offer the connections videographers need for both video and audio work in a multi camera shoot. On site synchronization of time code is one professional feature enabling non tethered cameras to be quickly matched in a multi-cam editing window.  For tethering, video shading adjustments are available for matching multiple cameras.

Although consumer cameras record 1080p, 1080i, 720p high definition formats, this specification is referring to resolution picture size and how it is rendered, not picture quality. Additionally the imagers in consumer cameras may be of lesser quality and have a minimal light collecting surface. Under low light environments this may yield grainy or noisy images with flat color caused by electronic amplification during boosting of the video signal to compensate. Consumer cameras may have presets which are helpful, but lack tweaking of an image. A consumer imager may use more of the lens center. Usage depends upon how well matched the imager is to the lens. Greater use of the center of a lens is good for sharpness but will also yield greater depth of field. In other words everything will be in focus, the background and foreground. The ability to control depth of field adds emphasis to subjects by gradually softening either background, foreground or have all in sharp focus.

Hawaii wedding video professionals use cameras featuring fine optics and adjustable creative control for quality wedding video imagery.