Your mx500 equipment
 

Hi,
what's your mx500 equipment, microphone, lens, hood, and more...I would to say so I can compare mine with yours, maybe some accessories are unknow for me, let's start:

i have the mx500 (trying to find a hood :-( )
A shure c606 microphone when I have to shot dialogue scene
And a "few euros" tripos (it does not allow me to do panoramic, the head doesn't have a fluid movement)

and you?

For my MX300 this is my list:

• 3, "2-hour" batteries (good for 1 hour)
• UV, polarizer, several Cokin filters
• Manfrotto 128RC head / 055pro legs
• Apex 191 mic / Senn MZS6 shock-mount for hot-shoe
• cleaning cassette
• spare miniDV tape
• Lowepro Nova 5 soft case
• DV Caddie

Come on, people, give it up.

manfrotto sort of smooth tripod
quickstream dv drive
hollywood lite steadycam
two big batteries
japanese waterproof suba case for swimming in rivers
raynox 5000, i like it so much it sleeps under my pillow
tiffen dv filter pack
azden smx-2 shotgun
hip pack that always has my canon digital rebel also, ready 2 go...
liquid edition for rescuing much of my film :-)

what i am missing is .....

a sunny / hazy day filter that allows me to achieve deep, good color saturaton on a foreground person, whilst also capturing the saturated colors in mountains / sky several miles distant.

i ge the foreground ok, but these beautiful skys and mountains consistantly look well laundered and faded ...........

i have tried both tiffen and pentax uv filters, no luck ....

Uh, I'm very poor....

Ah what's "Apex 191 mic / Senn MZS6 shock-mount for hot-shoe"?
I don't know, it's a microphone right? It's bettere than a classic microphone with cable?have you a link with price, carateristic...ecc.?

Uao, a professional equipment....

See this thread about the Sennheiser MZS6 shock mount:http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=22417 (It won't break the bank - $50 Canadian.)

See this link for the Apex 191 cardioid mic: http://www.apexelectronics.com

(Which also won't break the bank - $99 Canadian.)

You will need an XLR to 1/8" adaptor/cable, and you'll want a sock for the mic.

Emmet says "raynox 5000, i like it so much it sleeps under my pillow".

Whoaaa... How do you sleep comfortably ?? Don't do it man, you will hurt your neck !! ;-)

My list:

Raynox HD5000 WA lens (it sleeps alone)

43 MM Rubber lens hood (seems to work well when I'm not using the Raynox - no vignetting) http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=116974&is=REG

Panasonic 256 MB SD card

Panasonic AY-DVMCLA Mini-DV Cleaning Tape

Panasonic CGR-D28 Lithium-Ion Battery Pack (7.2v, 2800mAh)

B+W 43mm UV Haze 010 (MRC) Multi-Resistant Coating Glass Filter

Tiffen 43 mm Polarizer Filter

I need to get a Tripod one of these days

fit it between your shoulder and neck, plus u get wide angle dreams:-)

anyone want to solve my landscape problem .... ?

"anyone want to solve my landscape problem.... ?"

You mean this:That's a DOF and white balance problem. With infinity, you'll get the background focused, but you have to also white balance that background.

that's what i was wondering about ..... i have printed out one of these blue warm cards... i'm going to see if that helps ...

i saw a nice documentary last night of a woman training for everest in a lush coastal landscape - brilliant foreground colors on her tent & clothes, deep saturation miles distant..... that's what i am after. can't figure out how they do it. (besides having anexpensive broadcast camera of course ....)

You should be able to get that kind of footage with the MX500. The resolution and the color saturation is there. It's a very capable cam.

PS: I put my friend, Buck, under my pillow at night. Buck model #119...and my wife now sleeps on the couch. :-))

That's totally funny Frank because the #119 (100th anniversary edition) sleeps beside my pillow at night.

My kit is a gs100K with no accessories as of yet...
I will get the senn k6/me64 w/ the at8415 shock mount when i finally get audio gear tho.

edit: How's the 191? I really need to upgrade the standard mic on my gs100 and i might not be able to afford the senn for a while.

That shock mount is better than the beyer 86?

I haven't used the Apex 191 yet. Bryan Beas sent me an XLR to 1/8" adaptor, which hasn't arrived yet. Yes, that Senn shock-mount is a lot better. See what I thought about the Beyerdynamic EA86 here:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=22085

Emmet,
Have you tried a polarizing filter?

Speaking of polarizers, I can't get my polarizer to work right on my DVL9500's because I can't see anything! Thanks to their low resolution LCD and viewfinder. On the other hand, my MX300's screens are high resolution so I can actually see when the glare is blocked when I rotate the polarizer.

landscaping....
 

might just be an exposure thing... is there more or less light on your foreground subject... next time you get the conditons you want go out and play around with f-stops... try going one and then two stops down from 80% zebra;s.... then go one or two up... compare the footage and see if it makes a difference...

Just my two cents...

Cheers