Camera tests that are posted on Youtube are encoded en compressed for streaming purposes, but do give a real world picture of what is left after decoding in a normal situation watching that footage on the web. At Youtube HD the quality loss is minimal from what you can expect.
High contrast shots (light dark) with HM 700 with low sunlight on water. I used ND 4 stops and 2 stops down . The 14x new Cannon lens was not available for this test, so I used my old Fujinon 16x TV zoomlens that comes standard with the HD 110 and has a lot of limitations. File format of HM700 is XDCAM EX720 p50 35 Mbs VBR in QT wrapper stored on SDHC cards class 6. After copying the files to my scratch disk ( very fast) it was a simple import in the bin of FCP. Timeline was set up as XDCAM EX 50p. No grading no colour correction. Export to QT movie and encoded with Episode 5.1.2 to H264. 3500Kbps datastream. Due to the encoding process some of the green area's show artifacts that are not in the original edited version.
A possible stutter in playback is not in my encoded version but caused by streaming over the web.
