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July 10th, 2012, 09:34 AM | #1 |
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Are you tired of seeing slow-mo footage yet?
Well, too bad! Here's some more.
But seriously, shooting at 240fps is totally addictive. I headed upstate the day after I picked up my camera and couldn't stop shooting slow-motion. Firework, guns, and water. I'd have to be some sort of America hating terrorist not to overcrank! Overall, I'm in love with this camera. It doesn't have the low light performance of the 5D, but its a small price to pay for the convenience associated with shooting with a camera that was actually built to be a video camera. Everything was shot using Canon L-series lenses via a Metabones adapter (which seems to work great - except for autofocus, if you need that). Included is low light to bright sun footage, so you can see the difference. (One issue I did encounter that I need to look into: When I first started using the camera, it would seem to 'freeze' up after I turned the power on and the camera was booting up. It would get 'stuck' on the 'Sony' logo. After 3-6 minutes, I would turn the power off, but the 'Sony' logo would stay up on the LCD. I would have to pop out the battery to power down. But when I restarted, there was no problem. This happened a couple times, but I've probably turned it on 50 times since then without any problem - curious if this is some sort of software bug and if anyone else has encountered it?) Anyway...... Last edited by Todd Sheridan; July 10th, 2012 at 09:35 AM. Reason: video link did not embed |
July 10th, 2012, 08:40 PM | #2 |
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Re: Are you tired of seeing slow-mo footage yet?
Just wait for the slo-mo shallow focus transitions.
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July 11th, 2012, 02:59 AM | #3 |
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Re: Are you tired of seeing slow-mo footage yet?
Heh. That footage more interesting . How about 2 bugs getting frisky with a 100mm or 200mm macro in Slomo ? Oh 4mm instead of 3mm bugger pulled focus too far.
Is there a lens with focus transition that will do it on this cam? Maybe not? Winter here, few bugs |
July 11th, 2012, 04:52 AM | #4 |
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Re: Are you tired of seeing slow-mo footage yet?
Any E-Mount lens can do a programmed focus pull. The FS700 has a shot transition function where you can memorise two focus and exposure points and transition between them. Only works with E-Mount lenses but a nice feature.
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July 11th, 2012, 06:33 AM | #5 |
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Slow-mo BBQ is torture for hungry people... ;-)
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July 11th, 2012, 08:54 PM | #7 |
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Hah hah! Music very appropriate. Was that the stock lens?
I'm thinking you would have to get pretty close to a fast moving insect for slomo with a 30mm emount macro... Like 3-4cm for 1:1 I don't know of any other macro emounts to take advantage of focus transitions Maybe some amount macro with a la ea2 ... Actually. Does anyone ever use autofocus in macro? Haven't done much |
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Re: Are you tired of seeing slow-mo footage yet?
No one will ever get tired of seeing slow-mo footage. It's going to give videography another edge over still photography in the marketplace.
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July 12th, 2012, 03:22 AM | #9 |
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Re: Are you tired of seeing slow-mo footage yet?
Okay - resisted for too long, but here's yet more gratuitous slomo. Note that I was originally looking for image degradation in the slomo modes, but as usual the Vimeo rendition covers up a lot of the aliasing.
Technical notes - these are all 200fps scenes as my camera was set to PAL at the time. I've used the FCPX Optical Flow to retime a couple of shots to 400fps to see which sort of degradation I preferred - the line skipping or the slightly trippy image distortion - I'll go for the latter, and remember to have a card handy for 240fps (and therefore 480fps with retiming) in the future.
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That was actually shot with the Canon 70-200mm 2.8L (version 1). Luckily those buggers like to stay in one place and chill out, so it was easy to focus on and capture them. I actually had to wave my arms around to get them to fly away for me. The problem with focusing in slow-mo on something like this, of course, is that you can be watching a 6 second video thinking to yourself "I had 6 seconds, why wasn't I able to focus?", and then you realize it was less than a second in real time. |
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I'll have to try twixtor for that. good idea. Do you mean an extra card so you don't mix base framerates on the same card or? I can see a fs700 on a set, I presume at 400fps and up, after "cut", "ok tea break everyone as it writes out the card" :) I guess if you have an ssd in the FMU it would write out like probably 8 times faster? Another test ;) I am presuming that doesn't happen with a phantom, but then again, different price point of product. |
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Tired of it! we're just getting started
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One of the best uses I've seen.
Shot at 1:23 is friggin awesome!
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