Quite often the talk is about what camera can provide the crispest image, manual image adjustments and highest output bitstream rate.
While this certainly is relevant it is not always top priority. I guess a lot of the stuff we produce will be post processed and compressed severely before it reaches the audience. Often the final video will be distributed using no full HD and very hard compression ratio. In these cases I find it more relevant how the camera copes with practical field AP usage, and what level of image stabilization it can provide.
This short VW commercial may serve as an example. We shot it a couple of weeks ago using a Sony CX 740VE, full auto, full HD 50P.
The production company really loved to have the zoom feature available. The raw footage was good, I reckon in the instances they did any post stabilization at all, it was minor.
The copter is a CarbonCore octo 1000 with Mega Radius 3-axis camera mount. Stabilizer Picloc 3X on a buggy 57.15 beta firmware.
Cheers, Tomas, helivision.se