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VIDEO WITH THE DSLR CAMERA: PROS AS WELL AS CONS

*DSLR stands for Dig­i­tal Sin­gle Lens Reflex. It’s a sort of camera used to one side for photography in the past. In 2008 Canon start­ing adding a video mode to their DSLR cam­eras. They had no thought the phe­nom­e­non that it would bring.

DSLRs have outrageous sen­sors (the mech­a­nism that con­verts light to video) and way more, cheaper, tall qual­ity lenses (also referred to as “glass”). These fac­tors give DSLR cam­eras very pointy imagery as well as a very shal­low abyss of field. Depth of margin or DOF, refers to the concentration of the picture or video. A low DOF is when the fore­ground and the back­ground of an picture are both in focus. You see this com­monly in land­scape shots.

Example Video Filmed Primarily with Canon 5D Mark II’s and Canon Rebel T2i’s:

Shal­low Dof is when one part of the picture is in concentration while the rest is not. For exam­ple, imag­ine a intrigue movie. About 3/4 of the way through the film, the male and lady run to one another and lick in the rain. On a close-up of them kiss­ing, you’d see them in focus, with the back­ground out of focus. You see it all the time in the movies, almost regularly used dur­ing back and onward dia­logue when 2 actors are talk­ing. This is a very sought after look by video pro­fes­sion­als and prior to DSLR video was intensely expen­sive to achieve. DSLR cam­eras grasp this look for a fifth of the price.

I proposed my videog­ra­phy career with a Sony VX-2000. It’s an comparison lit­tle Sony pro­sumer standard-def cam­corder. After we mas­tered that we was ready to ascent to a Hi-def cam­era, but we didn’t have much income and good cam­eras are very expen­sive. we saw the qual­ity that DSLRs are capa­ble of and we became very inter­ested. The Canon 60D was in my cost operation and we paid for it. It came with a 18-135mm EF-S lens. It shot 1080i and 720p at 24, thirty and 60fps (frames per sec­ond). It was a good cam­era and we really favourite it. How­ever we got the oppor­tu­nity to ascent to the Mer­cedes Benz of DSLRs…. The Canon 5D Mark II. we also got it with a 24-105mm criterion L-series lens. It shoots beau­ti­ful, crys­tal clear, film­like video and we adore it. Now here are the pros and cons

What’s good about DSLRs for video, and the rea­son they are so pop­u­lar, is the film­like qual­ity with the shal­low abyss of margin you can acquire for a much, much reduce price. For exam­ple, experts mostly com­pare the criterion 5d symbol II to the Red One cam­era, which costs $25k. Now of course the Red One is a nicer cam­era, it shoots at 2k res­o­lu­tion, but it’s $25,000, the criterion 5d symbol II is $2,500 and the qual­ity is com­pa­ra­ble. For Inter­net and DVD pur­poses, the qual­ity is neg­li­gi­ble. In the­atre it would be obvi­ous, but what your video looks like in film the­atres is not rel­e­vant to most. Any­way the point is the qual­ity for the cost is incredible.

Now here’s the cons. No mat­ter how awe­some the video qual­ity is, it doesn’t shift the actuality that DSLRs are built for still pho­tog­ra­phy and only not long ago proposed offer­ing video. This equates to that they have wanton audio capa­bil­i­ties. No man­ual audio benefit con­trols with­out hacks or patches, no xlr (high qual­ity audio input), the built in mic is too low qual­ity to use, also it’s small and with­out a han­dle so it’s dif­fi­cult to oper­ate uniformly and it doesn’t have a con­trolled zoom.

All these cons have workarounds but it’s a more dif­fi­cult routine than with a reg­u­lar video cam­era and it costs money. Even with these dear extras DSLR cam­eras are still value the income but the palliate of use and time it takes to bal­ance out the short­com­ings rely wholly on you. You positively have to get a sta­bi­liz­ing supply for well-spoken shoot­ing off the shoul­der, oth­er­wise your footage will be too shaky. These rigs aver­age around $500 with the aloft qual­ity ones around $2,000. You can do what some peo­ple do and set up your own supply or sequence the com­po­nents sep­a­rately and assem­ble it your­self. I’m going to do an complete post ded­i­cated to choos­ing or build­ing a supply and once it’s com­plete I’ll insert a couple to it here.

Because the DSLR has bad audio capa­bil­i­ties, what most peo­ple do is buy a unstable audio tape deck to cap­ture audio sep­a­rately from the cam­era. You block your mic in use that to dig­i­tally jot down your audio. Thats a good way to get tall qual­ity audio, the prob­lem is, since the video and audio are not being available by the same device, you’ll need to sync these in post. You can do this man­u­ally using the a clap­per or snap etc. but there is a much sim­pler solu­tion which is a pro­gram called plural eyes. Plural eyes will auto­mat­i­cally sync your video to your audio in your time­line. It does this by lin­ing up the sep­a­rately available audio wave­forms to the audio wave­forms available by your low qual­ity built in cam­era mic. It’s not regularly per­fect but if you’re get­ting decent audio from your cam­era then it functions fast and effec­tively. There’s also a sis­ter pro­gram called twin eyes that will auto­mat­i­cally sync all the video files to all the audio files out­side of your edit­ing application.

In con­clu­sion, DSLRs give you excel­lent qual­ity for the price. How­ever, you’ll need to confirm for your­self either or not the short­com­ings of shoot­ing with a pho­tog­ra­phy cam­era are accept­able to you as a video creator.

I goal this essay surveying the pros and cons of sharpened video with a DSLR has been beneficial to you…

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SWANN FREESTYLE HD WEARABLE VIDEO CAMERA

Swann today introduced the first Full HD wearable video camera: Swann Freestyle HD.

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SEEING THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

There are many behind-the-scenes videos about marriage photographers, but this one takes a very different perspective. Photographer Jaroslav Repta mounted a GoPro video camera to the side of DSLR so viewers could see the camera’s point of perspective during the wedding. It is very engaging to see how he approaches each point of view and he also narrates it to travel us through his techniques (for those of you celebration of the mass this by email, you can see the video here):

The video on top of shows the footage from his GoPro along with photos of the marriage and more from a standard day in the hold up of a marriage photographer. Includes an reason on how he setup a supply in sequence to mountain the video camera.

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EASY SHOT CLIP HD DIVING KIT

Concord Keystone has just introduced the Easy Shot Clip HD Diving Kit, a small, 720p HD video camera and underwater housing that’s waterproof down to a abyss of 100ft / 30m.

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