I know you've been on this list forever. My point was that I had just
received a TON of footage shot by experienced shooters who'd done good
work for me before, but they had used 2 DSLRs on this shoot with
obviously no clear understanding of how they are different from video
cameras. Having experience at SOMETHING (being old) doesn't mean you
have experience or understanding of NEW things. I bought a 5DM2 last
year thinking I'd make great images with it myself.
Yeah, I had an inkling you'd just got a bunch of footage like that
Like you, my first attempts were pretty good as well. However, as I did
more productions with it and saw footage from other people with the same
camera, I realized what the specific limitations were. Many people just
treat it as a video camera because it shoots video. It is CLEARLY a
STILL camera. Making it shoot good moving images takes a lot more
attention to detail and specific workarounds.
Apart from my focus, framing and steadiness, my shots were brilliant!
(Poor focus, poor framing and wobbles aside). But I was more shocked by
the ergonomics of it. And the fact a lens made by Canon (like we have on
the bigger ones) was such a piece of cheap doo-doo.
I wasn't casting any aspersions on your skills or "newbiness" but the
truth is that despite your age, you ARE a newbie. Everyone is
essentially a newbie with this technology. I was just trying to share
some knowledge that I thought would save you some pain when you saw your
final images.
Yeah. I've had to be a 'newbie' my entire career. Sometimes I marvel at
what I've had to learn - not immodestly, but reflecting on "progress".
Guess my sensitronomy notes can be put away, and my CP/M command list...
Maybe "silver halides" and "latent image" can be future passwords for
some old folks home.
I s'pose I got a touch of the grumpies, surrounded as I seemed to be
with bright young things all chattering excitedly about this whizz-bang
camera AND the Emperor's new clothes.
Keep well,
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