you
must take a look at the following
Making an Indie HDV Feature Without Making Big Mistakes
http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo ... /6916.html
HDV to Film. A real World TestThere can’t be very many filmmakers who know more about working with the HDV format than Frederic Haubrich. As president and co-founder of Lumiere HD, he helped a whole cross-section of videographers using JVC’s HD-10U get their footage into Final Cut Pro back in the dark days before there was such a thing as native HDV support. So it makes sense that, when Haubrich directed his first feature film, Tomorrow Is Today, he decided to shoot it in HDV.
http://www.dv.com/features/features_ite ... =174900673
Hands on HD. Getting the most ouyt of High DefThe end result is here: An overview of the decisions and discoveries I made while producing a real-world project in HDV, along with the reactions of some seasoned DPs to the final film result. I found out a lot during the process-more than can fit in the pages of the magazine. More details about the project are available online at DV.com.
http://www.studiodaily.com/studiomonthl ... /6147.html
Using the Sony HDR FX1
http://www.bealecorner.com/fx1/index.html
hope this helps some of us. Do keep posting some of your opwn experiences and discoveries..