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.
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If you have tons of money, Edius can handle those QuickTime clips natively!
ReplyDeleteAlso, there is post-processing you can do to remove camera shake in another tool (freeware) with amazing results
Haha, you think my shaking was that bad? :) Will see if I can build a DYI steadycam, seems to several different instructions available online.
ReplyDeleteEdius looks a bit too advanced if I'm reading this correctly, ~700-800 USD is pushing it. Will look at the trial-version!