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.
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.
Dec 02, 2017 at 07:58 PM
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