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sony pd 170
hello
I`ve been editing for some years ago, as a job, then someone ask me to start doing something new to me: record, so i bought this sony 170. at first i may say this is the most dificult thing to do, or i do not born to this!
What i need to ask – because i dont know anyone in this area, camera-men, is how many years will i need to be able of being in any party, for exemple, and with the manual focus, keep recording someone in the other side of the room, and just after that do a very close close-up to something near me?! is it possible or i should have two cameras, to record such diferent situations?
sory about my english,
m.c.
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9 Replies
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You can re-focus manually, but on a PD170 it is VERY difficult.
The focus ring on the camera is not physically connected to the lens.
Instead, it controls servo motor which rolls the lens focus…
not the best method for critical focus changes.If you can use 2 cameras, that would be easier and better.
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Hola Manuela,
So what you want is to learn how to focus fast and keep the focus.
The best way is to get something in focus is to push up all the zoom. Set the focus and then set the zoom back to the position you need it. The object will always be in focus like that. If you focus with the zoom in a wide position, when you push the zoom forward you can loose the focus.
The small button “Push Auto” is also very useful. You can work in manual and use it to make a fast auto-focus. When you release it the focus keep in that position.
Sorry about my english too;-)Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
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SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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Absolutely! And it won’t take years of tractic, just a few days. It will get a habit:
1. Full zoom in
2. Push auto (don’t bother for that fiddly manual focus)
3. FrameEnjoy!
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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thanks so much!
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thank you!
Yes, i do what you say, and i keep the focus in a distance between those two points – all the place keep on focus, but when i go recording this close-up, very near, and return to a general plan again i lost focus!! and if i go doing this all the time… 🙁
I`ve been looking for lens, to this camera, to get more close – macro, i think-, in the net, and i dont find, do they existe?!
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just a few days? thank you very very much!!
I will pratice those steps.
when i`ll get there, will be a very important day in my life (:-)THANKS FOR ALL OF YOU
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You must push all the zoom forward, then focus. And the focus will be there forever.
The PD-170 have a great lens. You don’t need nothing else unless you want to shoot things that are too far away then you can use a tele, or when you want to shoot things at just few centimeters from the camera then would be a macro. Expensive things if they are of good quality, and with very limited utility.
Practice with your PD-170, is a great camera.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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Hola Manuela,
another lens won’t help, these are basic optical laws: wide-angle has a wider range of focal depth than tele, and close-ups are narrower in focus than remote scenes.
Excuseme me, but you should study a little bit of photography. These facts apply to any optical system.
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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thanks!
i am all ready reading a book named “video camera techniques”
SORRY, but the lens question, has nothing about the first one, its for an ideia, a project i have in mind, for the futur, when i`ll be a good camera-…
goodby
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