Daniel Ridicki |
July 2nd, 2009 12:14 PM |
Fred
You are right. MkII is a video tool, but not universal. And as long as you are aware of its limitations, you should be fine. As a young photographer, sometimes I used to go to assignments only with one body and one lens: my favorite 35mm. my friends asked me if I was not reducing my potentials and possibilities making that choice. On the contrary! I fond that often limitation can be creatively turned into an advantage, because it forces you to think harder and therefore find new solutions, often better then if you had backing of variety of lenses in your bag.
Then - what I discovered - mixing of MkII and EX1/3 is good thing, since the mixed footage 'hide' MkII imperfections: you see artifacts in one shot, but there are non in the next shoot, so it is a sort of 'covering'. Do some testing, especially experiment with the contrast level: low contrast is by far better then high, tele lens is generally better then wide etc. If you are in Final Cut Studio, you can pretty much adjust MkII footage to the EX1/3, and it is not too complicated process. Anyway: best of luck!
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