Let me explain. My new Panasonic G9ii is fantastic for still photos but for video erm?? if you look closely with this video “in a full computer screen” taken with the camera it stutters in panning. Most camera videos are like the duck one below ,a straight forward video very few show panning videos because of this stuttering effect
No matter what setting ( shutter speed twice as fast as frame rate as recommended) does not fix the problem. It really annoys me. It really pisses me off to be honest ,
THEREFORE just this evening ordered a camcorder the Panasonic HC-VXF1 4K Camcorder. Although I had the Panasonic HC-X1500 and a fantastic camcorder a lot of the features i never used, apart from the weight issue.
This new camcorder is in fact a cut down version of the1500 spec wise and lighter as well.
Having gone around Sheffield park I realised how much I miss having a camcorder in my photographic arsenal. I had considered to get another lens for the camera but with I have is allI really need. So that is the remainder of the left over camera exchange cash, although Sue doesn’t approve.
Wouldn’t it have been a lot cheaper and easier to remove panning from your repertoire? just take a series of 4 second clips of the location encompassing the different parts from different angles.
Maybe so Bruce but that is not the way I work. Continuous panning means less work joining up individual clips which could mean fading in and out for each clip to make it look more professional. Doing individual clips could well miss out on something with videoing as well.
Then there is the issue of Zoom. to toom in to say 600mm from 20 mm maens changing lenses, not with a camcorder.
for example doing it your way in the video below would miss out on the overall impression of the Berlin Wall in Germany. My way doing it in one hit I think is better to show off what it was like
Or put another way it is for me like someone in a wheel chair without the wheels, being without a camcorder.
…and that was just a quick snap I took of RS photographing the flowers in his garden.
When he was filming the Berlin Wall he had more porters than Edmund Hillary took up Everest.
Photography is a serious and expensive business, if you don’t have at least half a dozen cameras, camcorders and pieces of audio equipment on you at all times you’re not taking it seriously. That’s just the way it is with proper photography.
Of course if In Australia one needs a truck to carry all the photo gear in, Bruce has even gone as far as towing his own darkroom around as well. Now there is a true photogrpher/ videograher.
