Steve Crow
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Yes, you should investigate adding an external field monitor to your camera, it will provide different resolution overlays/grids to use to help you with your framing. They are getting much cheaper now but still provide reasonable quality – FeelWorld is one such brand but there are many many others!
Steve Crow
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Thanks Michael, not surprised. I just found the Mac version of RedCine-X Pro on the Red site and downloaded it. I clearly have a lot to learn – am watching a video from Sam Messman about the workflow – just getting into it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MLGaiJOZY
One funny thing about RedCine-X Pro is that when you right click on a file – all the options seem to be greyed out although they highlight in orange as you roll over – probably that’s just the way they designed it but for about 5 minutes I thought all the menu options were unavailable to me, haha!
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Your aperture will control how much of the image is in focus; deep depth of field or shallow depth of field. The frame rate controls how “smooth” or “jittery” the footage is – technically how much motion blur there is.
Two or so pieces of advice:
If you plan on shooting outdoors during bright days you are going to need an ND filter on your lens to cut the amount of light hitting the sensor or your footage may be overexposed.
Look up articles on the “exposure triangle” to learn how to get the exposure you want.
Finally, invest at least as much time, effort and gear purchases on SOUND issues as on the camera stuff – bad sound will ruin any film you are trying to make
Steve Crow
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It sounds like you managed to solve this problem but has someone pointed out to you that you can only record aprox. 12 minutes at a time on a Canon unless you use Magic Lantern software, then I’m not sure how long you can record. So that’s why I don’t normally recommend Canon DSLRs to record long speeches. What you have to do is to stop recording and then a second or so later start recording a new clip – if you time it right it can be OK, like during a laugh break or other interruption.
I hope this helps you in the future
Steve
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I’m not 100 percent sure but it could be “Chromatic Aberration” which is a well known cause for purple fringing in high contrast videos like yours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZOGFA-8i2s
Solution is to shoot with a less wide open aperture apparently
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Scott, when I view the image in photoshop at 1080p the things I notice are:
1. The vignetting is waaaaaaay over done
2. yes, the image could be sharper – I’d like to be able to read the model number in the upper right (for a commercial this would be important)
3. The calculator has a weird purple blue discoloration which you can see most clearly just above and between the bottom row of buttons
4. There’s also a an “extra” shadow at the bottom of the calculator that I don’t know where that is coming from – the bottom of the calculator needs some more diffused light on it, in my opinion to get rid of that overly harsh shadow
5. The calculator, since it’s the “hero” of this shot is about 100% under exposed to me – when I upped the brightness in Photoshop by that amount the image much improved, in my opinion
6. I’d also make the calculator larger as a percentage of the overall frame, why devote so much space to the desk?
7. Overall I’d describe the “tone” as mushy – I think the calculator, for a commercial application, should appear, bright, shiny, ” technological”
I don’t do product photography but I’d research that as a topic if I were to get some more detailed answers. This is not my area of expertise, I am more interested in story than I am in “pixel peeping” but I hope I’ve given you some things to think about for your next “shot” at this “shot” 🙂
Steve Crow
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Maybe you can explain what you don’t like about the shot first because some of this comes down to taste vs purely technical issues.
Steve Crow
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I would say Tiago that the chance of the lenses having anything to do with it are less than 15%
The clues are:
1) You are generating DNG files which the Canon T2i can’t do it by itself, therefore you must be using 3rd party firmware on the camera like Magic Lantern or doing some other kind of post processing to create those
2) The noise you describe as being more like artifacts of digital processing rather than random noise which fits in exactly with the theory that its because of an image processing issue in software
3) And you said it doesn’t happen when you shoot video normally on your T2i – using either lens as far as you know so far
So logically, it’s Magic Lantern or however else you are generating or processing the DNG files
Steve Crow
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OK, so I think you answered your own question, it doesn’t normally produce this noise you say. I believe you are using something like Magic Lantern for your T2i (which I have as well) to show RAW DNG files. I think this is the cause. I don’t think it has anything to do with the lens.
Steve Crow
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Nope
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