A friend asked me to help him video his band tonight. He's a pro, has
the full rig, but since he's in the band, there's only so much he can
do.
He set up the main camera taping the whole band and gave me a small
handheld and monopod to get the "detail shots".
He even suggested that I could do stuff with the main camera, zoom and
pan and stuff, but I figured I'd leave it alone as a "safe backup" and
just play with the one handheld camera. It was fun, especially with
the camcorder on the monopod and shooting at fun angles, like directly
above the musicians, or from floor level. On the other hand, it was a
LOT of work. Even without dealing with exposure and focus, it was
more work than shooting stills. With still you only have to be
reasonably still for, maybe, 1/5 Second, not for tens of seconds, or a
minute or two at a shot. Mr. Cottrell has nothing to worry about my
wanting to steal his job.
I also played a little bit with the video on the K-x. Most of the
clips were basically crap, however two of them turned out impressively
well.
One was a 15 second clip with the FA77 that really impressed me with
the image quality. The other is a 40 second clip with the 18-250
which sort of pushes the limits of the sensor. Also, with video, I
can see the advantages of motorized zoom.
I can play the files fine on my Mac. In VLC I need to let it
"correct" the avi file, but it works. Unfortunately, my version of
iMovie won't import them, and my version of quicktime won't save them.
I guess that it's time to try installing the Pentax software and see
how well it handles things.
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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