Peter Ralph
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surely it depends on focal length, aperture, shutter speed and the distance of the subject from the lens?
If you follow a 7 second rule on a distant mountain range a pan could take several minutes
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I would guess mean average five hours with a standard deviation of 2.
Which would indicate that 95% of pro wedding videographers end up with between 1 and 9 hours of footage, with two thirds of those in the 3 to 7 hour range.
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Aaron – your insistence on “leaving religion out of the equation (which is where it belongs)” is a great argument to make in a bar or a political caucus.
Not quite so convincing in a church.
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Both opinions are correct. Faster cuts create more excitement/confusion and varying the pacing will give a more organic feel.
Crank 2 and the Bourne films had average shot lengths under 2 seconds. Bourne Ultimatum averaged 37 cuts per minute.
Here is a database showing Average Shot Length for hundreds of movies:
https://www.cinemetrics.lv/database.php
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thanks Chris I’ll try that
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I use a 56K on cam light for run and gun – but daylight balanced fixtures have to be very beefy to have any impact on a scene lit by the sun.
For background/rim light I think the light is less important than the light stand – get an articulating/boom stand which allows you to position the fixture wherever you want.
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I understand your frustration. There are dozens of links to “documenatary shot on DSLR”, even “photojournalism with a DSLR”, which all but ignore the difficulties of shooting run and gun. It’s not just focus, it’s ergonomics, audio, record time, start-up time, controls that are not split-second accessible etc.
The mistake is to equate “documentary” with “run and gun”. If you want to shoot unpredictable action as it happens it is recommended to shoot handheld and have fingers on iris/zoom/ND/focus/exp lock all the time.
But a lot of doc and VJ footage is not run and gun. If the action is predictable/repeatable a DSLR works fine.
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Have you any idea why he is refusing?
Do you plan on re-editing the footage – Is that what he is nervous of?
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better to switch off AF when you are shooting a stationary subject. You might use the AF to find focus but you don’t want to run the risk of focus-hunting during a take.
Hand-held live-action shooting is an art. The most important thing is that you have reliable feedback with regard to focus and exposure, and that you have fingers on focus/exposure/zoom controls all the time.
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Build quality is not “commercial grade” for sure – from what I’ve seen the same goes for the Sachtlers & the Millers in that price range. But as with the XLH1 – you sacrifice build quality whenever you push the price/performance ratio.