Leslie Wand
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btw – what camera is it? does it have hdmi out?
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buy a cheap external protable video hd recorder – then you will be recording direct to hd.
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obviously depends on what your clients want. in my case i’m still shooting with my ex1 and have no intentions of changing till either clients demand (unlikely since i’m rurally based now) or the camera gives up the ghost – hopefully equally unlikely.
and it’s not just changing camera to move to 4k; my i7 4770k and 980 card handle camera files with ease, storage is no problem, and neither is calibrated monitoring (vegas and resolve).
there’s a limit to how much i want to spend on ever changing technology – and to be honest, i’m just a tad bored with it all by now 😉 -
whilst craig’s method is the CORRECT way to do it, a fast and dirty, and not so accurate way is (having used sony mismatched but same sensored cameras in the past) is to simply use a matching preset on both (eg. 5.2k sunlight) and then tweak in post.
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quick search turned this up:
Using a different lens won’t make much difference to the DOF on an EX3 because it’s the camera and not the lens that’s the limiting factor. Image sensor size plays a huge part in narrowing the DOF along with iris position and the amount of zoom used. The larger the imager the more narrow the depth of field can be dialled in. Also, the wider the iris opening the better (lower F stop number). And as you’ve pointed out the farther away from the background the talent is the better.
The EX3’s 1/2″ sensors are going to need some help from you setting up the camera to get the most out of the desired shallow DOF.
Open the iris to F1.8 and then adjust the lighting to get proper exposure i.e. using less light.
If shooting in daylight then use the camera’s ND filters to cut down the amount of light entering the lens.
Increasing shutter speed also cuts the light amount because there’s less time for the it to hit the sensors.Move back as far as you can from the talent and then zoom in to frame the head/shoulders shot. Iris as wide as possible then do a manual focus. See how that works. It’s tough getting a shallow DOF with 1/2″ imagers, especially when space between talent and camera is limited.
– Don
Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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wrong forum and you need a great deal more info for anyone to help: vegas ver, os, pc specs, what’s on tl, etc.,
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pretty much agree with all you wrote – and on that alone i’d probably buy a sony ‘-)
as i wrote, i don’t have experience wth either, but all my sony cameras have been rock solid performers – something i’d take over nearly anything else.
as for their mirrorless – i bought my wife a nex 7 for traveling – i now happily use it as a b roll;-)
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what happened to the ‘edit’ button?
just realized all those typos in the last sentence….
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ok, thanks for that. mkll…
i haven’t shot with either camera, so my opinion is moot, to say the least, but i’ve a long term preference for sony. i know canon makes fantastic dslr’s, but from what i’ve seen and read canon’s venture into video lacks the finesse, the ergonomics, etc., i did play with their xc10 and didn’t like its feel or handling.
i’m sure there are others here more qualified to comment – but i would try and do what i’ve always done (eg xc10) – hire/borrow a camera and shoot some test footage under your normal working conditions – it really is the oly way to find out if ny cmera is GOOD for you…
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sony’s 4k the canon isn’t?
what exactly are you after in a camera? what are you shooting?