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. In my case, Bruce has correctly identified the situation: > > Unless, of course, it's just the filmic equivalent of a snapshot. Then > > Auto everything and go for it. While K-5 cannot do AF in video mode, and that's what you have to do manually, it does a reasonable job on doing metering... ... but only in the center-weighted (and maybe "matrix") mode for the reasons described in the original message. Videos I shoot are more close to "snapshots" then to anything more serious. (You can see some of them here: http://youtube.com/SwingStR For most of the occasions, I just don't have time/energy to do it in a more proper way (with a tripod, etc.). Besides, as far as I know, K-5 doesn't allow to change the aperture _after_ you start recording the video. AFAIR, the only option about that is to allow or not to allow camera changing the exposure during recording (I suspect it does that but adjusting the gain, - essentially the equivalent ISO). Igor -- 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.
