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.
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.
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.
Steve Hullfish
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On Feb 1, 2011, at 2:40 AM, John Hollands wrote:
> Hmmm.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> I'm flattered to be thought of as some enthusiastic newby, makes me feel
> young all over again!!!
>
> As for whoever said "please learn how to use the video functions..."
> (Steve Hullfish) I'm not commenting on that. Using it myself I was able
> (sheer luck?) to get good shots, and we do get usable audio off the
> internal chip using Sennheiser radio mics. Just can't monitor it is all.
> And I'm sure our "proper" cameramen can also get good results.
>
> Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned auto-focus but it is there, it is
> fitted, I guess I expected it to function in a somehow useful way.
>
> What surprised most me was how bloody awkward it all is. We HAVE the
> clamp-on big-ass viewer thinggy, I always leave it behind. I don't see
> how it makes it easier. Makes me feel I have to bend backwards to take a
> look. I must confess I haven't tried it with the screen off to the side
> and swivelled up. I once used a Mitchell BNC like that; rackover focus
> and parallex viewfinder. Not TTL at all! But that was back when Mr Nixon
> was President, things have changed, I gather, since then.
>
> I wish there was a way to turn on the viewfinder as well as the screen -
> like we do on our other cameras. I guess it really needs a telescopic
> viewfinder like the old fillum cameras.
>
> We'll keep using it, it is a good guerilla camera and we've covered
> concerts without being noticed at all. We refrain from zooming or just
> cut out the crook zooms. It is not - yet - great in low light, but we'll
> figure that one out. One of our guys just keeps winding up the ISO
> settings. Once the images look completely rank he'll wind it back, I
> assume. Works well on tripod in our greenscreen stage.
>
> I suppose I am just a bit surprised and taken aback after all I had read
> about these cameras taking over the World. They won't.
>
> On the other hand, a very innocent-looking thing to leave on someone's
> desk while stepping out of the room...
>
> john-the-spy
> licenced to edit
>
>
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