Now I know this is not a video forum but have seen many people asking about the 300s video feature. I am not a videographer (as you will see) but feel that this is a decent showing of what the camera can do. The footage is straight out of the camera. More details can be found on my blog.
I tried embedding the video but it didn't work. If someone can tell me how that would be great, until then here is
My blogThe Video

Looks good to me. I've yet to try the video on my 300s.

Good work... It's nice to see people using the D300s with cinematography techniques in mind (i.e. NO WHIP-PANNING! GOOD SUPPORT!). Within its limitations the D5000/90/300S D-Movie function can deliver high quality video.

Thank you both.

I agree that if you have a good support system the jiggle becomes a lot less apparent. I will do my best to make some more clips with more action now that I am getting the hang out making movie images!

Thanks for the video! I have yet to play around with video on mine . . .

What song is that? It sounds like a less-edgy Cinematic Orchestra!

Nice, thanks! I'm very curious to know about the settings. It seems you had the camera on full auto? (the exposure changed while filming). In the first section, was the camera completey in the car? I edited this because I just checked out your blog. The Sigma 10-20 was used for the whole shoot? Thanks for sharing!!

I was also wondering what you used to capture and edit the video? Thanks again! Nice blog too!

The song is Sun Cruiser by Port Blue.

The camera was on aperture priority but I don't think it makes a difference. I can't figure out how to change the aperture while in video mode.

The camera was inside the car for everything except the shot from the front of the truck and then it was mounted to my hood. The camera was mounted to my rollcage for the rearview shot. The video was entirely shot with the 10-20. I have many ideas for shots but nobody is around to fill the roles I need!

I used sony vegas 9 (no idea how to do anything in it, all footage is right from the camera and rendered as is lol)

If anyone has requests for things you'd like to see on video or lenses used let me know!

Thanks a million! If you have a lens with a manual aperture ring, shouldn't you be able to shoot in manual mode and turn the ring to control aperture?

Also, I found this awesome tutorial for a DIY steady cam for a DSLR:
blog.maxwellander.ca

video sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV58XLkWnBg

What about auto focus while shooting video? Is it possible or does it work?

Thanks Clay for the link.

It is possible but it is very slow. Manually focusing isn't a problem at all.

That's a really nicely done video with a great music track.

Andy

Thank you Andy. As I've mentioned, I will try and get a better video with more interesting subjects together and I will repost it.