On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fri Jan 24 06:03:57 EST 2014 > Steve Cottrell wrote: > >> On 23/1/14, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >> >Were it I shooting video, I'd meter the scene and set the camera on >> >manual at that setting. There's nothing more annoying than having the >> >exposure changing throughout some footage. That goes for WB too. >> >> That's the way we do it. However, panning or tilting through from (say) >> dark to bright areas of subject sometimes means one has to pull some >> stop. Not a problem. Pulling stop, zooming *and* focus all manually and >> at the same time can take a couple of goes. Not a problem though. >> > > Sure, - but that's for when you are doing a "planned" shooting, and when > you have a VIDEO camera, i.e. a camera that is designed (as opposed to > _adapted_) for shooting videos. I don't know about K-3, but K-7 and K-5 > are not in that league.
Don't dismiss your DSLR as a high quality video tool so quickly. Entire broadcast quality television programs have been shot using DSLRs (eg "House" with Canon 5DmkII's). I see a lot of indie movies at festivals and when you check the credits, 9 out of 10 of them are shot on DSLRs these days. A few on film, some REDs, but largely DSLRs. Put one on a rig, add a big focus knob/gear doohickey and you can be shooting prfessional video. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
