Varicam footage

Having a nice look at some footage on the 20" Cinema Display... ERGH! The artifacting is *horrible* in the anything remotely dark. I'm *NOT* impressed. I like my darkness, and I like my fall off into darkness, and this is super-unimpressive. The SDX-900 *IS* better, Ah well, Super-16mm or 2-Perf 35mm it will be. I'd consider the Cinealta if I didn't need to do any over/undercranking, just because its images are super clean.

I haven't seen artifacting this bad since a clip I shot on DVCPro25 was analogue transferred to DV (and thus reencoding). It's pretty awful.

WTF were you think Panasonic?