Samuli Vahonen
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 p.571 #4 · ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!) | |
akul wrote:
Samuli - It is remarkable to hear that you forgot the name of HDR app. You really stopped shooting for a while ! What's more amazing is that even you might have forgotten the app, you never forget how to shoot great photos !
Well that is yet to be seen, I would assume there is at the moment more snow in Austria and less greens  these photos have been from my 2011 holiday on Austria... Found the program, it was PhotoMatix Pro, now I can process more of the photos
carstenw wrote:
I don't have any specific plans, since this is not why I am getting the camera, but I am sure I will use it to film my daughter from time to time, doing various things. For this the built-in mic might be enough, at least most of the time. However, I also really like movies like Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka, and would love to do some slow, ambient work like that.I'm pretty sure you don't like your built-in mic when you record your daugter first words and at same time camera body sounds ruin the audio...
carstenw wrote:
I am a little surprised that you are not so happy with yours, that mic has a good reputation, as does the company, and I would have thought that the combination of 5DII and your mic would have been quite good. Is this really a limitation of the 5DII, or have you tried other cameras too? What are the problems exactly? Let me correct, I'm very happy to it but it's useless with sound circuits of 5DmkII and AD-transformer of 5DmkII. With cheap recorder (I have Zoom H1) it's OK. If I would have know I would have got the Pro version, like you said it's not much expensive.
The only issue is the noise, with 5DmkII I need to raise microphone level to 3.5 (in 0.0-5.0 scale) or even higher, and the noise (static hissssssss sound) makes footage useless. If the VideoMic Pro with it's +20 switch doesn't give better results, then I just buy another H1, they are fairly cheap. Also benefit of using H1 in addition to noise-less electronic, is that I can record 24bit/96kHz in uncompressed WAV-format.
One thing to nofify regards Røde Stereo VideoMic (and why not other XY mics) is that all the guides for video audio tell you that you need to get as close as possible to your subject - WRONG. If you want to record quality stereo audio WITH feeling of the space where the sound is recorded, DON'T bring your MIC too close. This is because if you get your mic close then you echoes from surfaces compared to main sound have so small level that there really isn't anymore any space recorded to sound. So unless you record speech keep some distance! (this ruined my tea making video)
carstenw wrote:
Do we need a DLSR video alt thread? Well, if we keep talking in image thread much longer I'm running out of images, now using last I processed yesterday, have to do some more
"View from road L704 (Austria) 3" / Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 @ f/5.6, 1/800 (1/2500s sky, Photoshop layers "ND grad" used, luckily not much stupid artefacts this time), ISO 100 - larger version
Even in country like Austria I could not get nice framing with 21mm, after 2/25 I doubt I have much use for 21mm.
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