Re: Calling all you video cam people who will be out for the 4o'th anaversary activities

>
> I agree that with todays stuff, just set it to
> Auto white balance. You can do more harm than
> good otherwise, if you forget to white balance
> when its on manual.

I do strongly disagree. This is one of the most important points, as
Ian has pointed out in the first thread.

If there are more than one camera used in the same scene, it's
very important that they all do manual white balance.

I _do_ recommend setting it to AWB, when leaving the location, and then setting manual white balance again at the next location.

> I would also recommend auto
> iris for the same reason. I once had set mine on
> manual for a photo special shooting something
> weird.
> Then I got a cab ride and wondered why everything
> was so dark inside. Half way through the cab ride
> I realized it was set on manual. I flipped it to
> auto and the cab interior lit up nicely. The
> outside was kinda overexposed, but you have to
> make choices.

I guess, most people plan to use their camera on auto anyways (maybe using the backlight compensation button if required in a scene)

Personally I prefer the Av mode, depending on the scene with 5.6 or 8.0 with a small sensor or 8.0-11.0 for a big sensor.

For a small sensor the image quality degrades earlier (from about 8.0) whereas for a big sensor later (from about 11.0) because of diffraction.


>
> Not sure I am sold on this 60 fps stuff. What is
> the advantage of shooting at 60 fps when the final
> product is to be 29.97 on the dvd?

Why shoot Full HD, when it is SD on the DVD?
Easy answer: the master should have the best quality available.
Same arguments holds for 59.94fps
24/25/30 fps are one of the biggest shortcomings of TV standards today, because they don't allow smooth recording of motion and having a short shutter speed at the same time.
With 60fps (and at some point in the future this will be more widely supported), most people see motion as smooth (even with 1/1000s shutter time)

Christian



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/21/2010 11:57PM by Christian Romberg.