I want to be here again

My current background - zen during workshops (with a black background)

Trying out the "video"-mode

Tried to shoot some video today, using the new lens. First useless attempt included below - fiddling around with the settings I managed to locate the full manual controls for the video mode and had very limited success in capturing one of our cats. Manually controlling focus using the screen on the back of the camera is difficult to say the least, one of those z-finders would be nice, or to arrange the scene for fixed focus/using high f-stops.


Technical test - it can only go up from here..! Shot in 50fps, a bit jerky when playing it back.

After an hour or so of experimenting the battery was severly drained - any more serious attempt at shooting something would probably require one or two additional batteries or one of those battery grips.

I currently dont have any solution for editing videos, searching for open source software yielded nothing and my current hypothesis is to use Adobe Premiere Elements 9, a scaled down version of their full offering.

First prime - 50 mm 1,4

Purchased my first prime! 50 mm 1,4 - this thing is delicious and almost pure glass. Very easy to get nice DOF-effects, but also very easy to misplace the focus. As shown below, with a small aperture things that you never had to worry about before such as noses and ears can now be out of focus.



Will work a bit more with that DOF-calculator mentioned in an earlier post, need to find some comfortable ranges for some standardized scenarios. Need to take more shots!