Phil Balsdon
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Buy the originals. Often other brands won’t charge in the Canon charger this means you probably need to buy the other brand charger too.
There are also stories of cheap batteries over-heating and swelling in the camera making them impossible to remove.
Two places you shouldn’t cut corners if you are a professional, batteries and storage cards. Failure of either could stuff up your whole shoot – a far more expensive disaster than spending a few extra coins on reliable and proven equipment.
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And another vote for Neat Video
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Do not use the computer for any other purpose whilst the import is taking place, that includes looking at the files already transferred.
I had this same problem with all the excitement of wanting to see the results of my first camera tests. Leaving everything alone whilst the transfer completed solved the issue.
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And perhaps camera manufacturers need to know camera operators would a like a viewfinder that shows ALL the image…. please. Maybe this is something they could move up their technology priorities, ahead of all the new codecs.
The viewer is actually more likely to notice a mike in shot and find it more disturbing than a little picture noise.
HD DSLRs work great, you can actually see the area just outside the recorded image area, top and bottom of frame.
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Phillip Bloom’s Canon 7D DVD is available as a digital download.
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This due to the fluorescents that cycle at 60 cycles per second (50 in PAL countries).
You need to set your shutter speed (not frame rate) to synchronize with this. You can’t do that with 720 60p because the shutter speed will not slow down to 1/60.
Shoot 1080 30p or 24p with a shutter speed of 1/60.
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I’m wondering about the “floating camera look”, what is the motivation for this?
I don’t think this is helping the distraction of the cuts, often the camera is floating in one direction then on the cut to the following shot it is floating in another direction, this sudden change of direction makes it even more distracting.
I know zooms are a challenge on these cameras, but have you thought about possibly using a dolly or slider so you can track the camera in as the delivery becomes more intense? This would enable you to also retain the “float” effect more seamlessly and get closer without the inevitable subconscious “blink” caused by the cut down the line.
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Exactly.
The cost of re-shoot, if its possible, can be more than the value of your entire kit.Some things are not worth cutting costs on, one day a cheap CF card will come back and bite you real hard.
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Were these 8Gb cards UDMA / 60Mbs cards?
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Ha Ha! Well said Rafael.
I’ve often thought that would be a good idea.
Then I wondered if they’d read and understand it anyway, seeing as it is clearly stated in everything else they should have read before they got into trouble and came here in the first place.
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