It is a beautiful beast Nick! He just finished it, one thing we discovered is that he needs a bigger smoke tank. We're going to do a full shoot in the Spring when things green up.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
It is a beautiful beast Nick! He just finished it, one thing we discovered is that he needs a bigger smoke tank. We're going to do a full shoot in the Spring when things green up.
Impressive smooth footage there Jim! Is that with your new custom stabiliser rig?
JWilsonphoto wrote:
It is a beautiful beast Nick! He just finished it, one thing we discovered is that he needs a bigger smoke tank. We're going to do a full shoot in the Spring when things green up.
Looks like an awesome ride! There's something going on with the video. I can't tell if the camera is slightly hunting focus, the encoder is stuttering, or you're getting some vibration thru your new frame. It almost looks like vibration when you get to the limit of your bungees and you slightly touch the outer frame to transfer vibrations to the camera.
The F/16 image is outstanding! I went to you image gallery and was mesmerized by your wonderful imagery! You sky scapes are breathtaking!
Well done!
Thank you Jim, I appreciate that. Night sky photography is something I have been learning about and finally have the equipment to make some useful images. I enjoy it, glad you like it.
It's a little rolling shutter syndrome I believe, due to the fact that the A36 we used did not have a slipstream deflector installed in the first hinge to my left. I think the shudder is due to the extra slipstream hitting the camera. I know that it has nothing to do with the stabilizing rig or gyro positioning. I've been amazed that these Sony's of mine haven't exhibited rolling shutter to date, but they haven't, until yesterday. I think it's an easy fix and we got a lot of great footage that doesn't have it. Neither rig allows the gyros to bang into the uprights so that's not a consideration. Much to my chagrin, autofocus is avoided like the plague in pro video circles, because it is nowhere near as reliable in video as it is in our still camera world. You can have the most wonderful clip going and the autofocus will hunt and ruin it, manual is the only way to go unfortunately.
I was going to use the new rig but Friday morning, as I was getting it ready, I realized that I had just one more tweak that I wanted to implement and there wasn't time to do it properly, so I used the smaller rig. Good choice actually, because it would have put both my gyros to work on the big stabilizer and left me high and dry as far as still work was concerned. The air was a bit choppy and I would not have wanted to shoot stills unstabilized.
I've been weighing the pros and cons of building a RED system vs buying a Sony F55. I was going to get a 55 last year, but the Sony scuttlebutt was that a sequel was on it's way. Sony released it a couple of months ago and it's a nice camera, but lacks the mechanical shutter of the F55, a huge feature in the kind of work that I do, so I'm not going that direction. The RED system is cool, ridiculously over priced and still has the CMOS sensor with the associated weaknesses. So, the F55 looks like the best decision given what I know now. While the 55 completely eliminates any chance of rolling shutter, I think what I got yesterday was an anomaly that can easily be overcome.
nickjohnson wrote:
Impressive smooth footage there Jim! Is that with your new custom stabiliser rig?
Hi Nick,
Thanks Bud, no the big rig wasn't quite ready for the high pressure, short duration, tight schedule surrounding yesterday's shoot, so my instinct led me to hold off on the inaugural and go with gear I know.
One thing I will tell Ya, if you think still photography is riddled with gremlins, today's video technology is that X 10, and that's before you take it up to bounce around in the sky. I learn several new things every time I step into the video/cinema arena. I'm sure the learning curve will begin to flatten out a bit but for the past several years it's been pretty steep.
alawadhi wrote:
Anytime I read "angry wife sale" in buy and sell I just laugh
Are they "wives" powerful enough to have influence on photo equipment?
Absolutely no offence ladies, no hard feelings
Not an uncommon syndrome Anwar, especially if the gear inquisition doesn't promise to bring revenue into the household. I joke with Sheila all the time about how her attitude toward my equipment expenditures has changed over the years, since the stuff started feeding us
Wow, I never would have guessed that the rolling shutter effect would cause that kind of blurring of the whole frame at once instead of the more often seen line distortions. Yikes, after reading the specs and price on that F55 I think I need some smelling salts. Not to mention the lenses to go with it...
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Not an uncommon syndrome Anwar, especially if the gear inquisition doesn't promise to bring revenue into the household. I joke with Sheila all the time about how her attitude toward my equipment expenditures has changed over the years, since the stuff started feeding us
Good Morning/Evening Nick, I'm not sure if that was "Freudian" or spell check, or both! It should have been acquisition, of course..................but we all know that we're talking about "acquisition inquisition" it's a married photographer syndrome The cure is being able to tie the gear to a revenue stream coming in, not just out.
My friends recently went to the AOPA convention near the Tampa, FL area, and went by the Trade A Plane booth, to pick up some calendars. When they got back home, they were going through it, and noticed my photo had been used for the month of November. Glad they brought back two copies of it.
I wasn't even aware that my clients were going to use one of my photos in the calendar.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Good Morning/Evening Nick, I'm not sure if that was "Freudian" or spell check, or both! It should have been acquisition, of course..................but we all know that we're talking about "acquisition inquisition" it's a married photographer syndrome The cure is being able to tie the gear to a revenue stream coming in, not just out.
Don't get me started on "speal chuckers" ..... One of the problems with being Dyslexic is that the aforementioned software ensures that the words are spelled correctly - the context and appropriateness not so much.
