Hi everyone,
I posted my recent trip to Scotland recently where you can take a look at some of the photos and videos from that... it was the first time ever doing anything videography based for me and I had a blast!
Right now I'm researching what a good main camera is going to be for me.... for Scotland I used the DJI Action 4, Pocket 3 and Air 3 drone.
What I am looking at is an interchangeable lens system that as well as getting great video shots of vehicles will also allow me to do things like wildlife, macro, underwater, interviews, landscapes and basically anything else that I may encounter out there on the road.
I have 2 stills camera systems already in a Pentax K1 mkII and Nikon D500 which I use for different things.... the AF on the Nikon is amazing so that gets wildlife and macro duty while the Pentax I usually use in manual focus mode and do landscapes, astro and also macro with it.
Not sure if I want to go down the route of a VDSLR, though I know that Sony and Lumix GH6 systems are really popular.... it just kind of crosses over to my stills cameras for me and I'm not sure if it makes any sense and I don't want to replace those systems. Sadly they really suck for video... :-(
Does Nikon have any camera that can record over 20 minutes I wonder, that effectively has more specific video features? Just wondering as it might tie in better with my lenses.... I'm not sure if the new Z range can record in RAW format for color grading etc...?
Currently I'm researching the Blackmagic Pocket range of cameras or the Studio 4k Micro after seeing these videos:
Does anyone have any experience with these cameras or would you recommend something else?
Not the greatest of shots as my area is way too light polluted but some stuff from my Pentax:
Additionally questions are what kind of lenses would be good? I'm really not keen on investing $60k on a video lens but something around the price of a good DSLR lens would work for me.... perhaps if I could use 2 lenses and a macro maybe? Even used would do the trick.... as from what I can tell the AF on the Blackmagic's is pretty crude which is similar to my Nikon in video mode, that only has one point.
The guy in the Youtube video example above was using classic Nikon lenses with aperture rings. I only have 1 lens like this which is a 50mm from 1977 that came with my FM 1 camera.
.....and finally like I've done above, is it possible to bring out the milkyway in videos or nebulosity? Normally in stills photography one would stretch the image as the data contained is in a non-linear plane. I used PixInsight for some of the stuff above, which is dedicated astro software normally meant to be used with full-spectrum cameras and multiple hours of exposure times.
- I'm kind of hoping that a Bortle 1 sky coupled together with a low enough shutter speed would give me a decent amount of data capture to pull something out of the sky? - not sure how flexible video is (I have just started playing around with Davinci Resolve Studio) in terms of if you can overlay two different processed versions of the same scene on top of each other like you would with sky replacement or so in Photoshop or background replacement in Gimp.
I am still learning and researching but this is just where things are at right now....
Any thoughts would be appreciated
I posted my recent trip to Scotland recently where you can take a look at some of the photos and videos from that... it was the first time ever doing anything videography based for me and I had a blast!
Right now I'm researching what a good main camera is going to be for me.... for Scotland I used the DJI Action 4, Pocket 3 and Air 3 drone.
What I am looking at is an interchangeable lens system that as well as getting great video shots of vehicles will also allow me to do things like wildlife, macro, underwater, interviews, landscapes and basically anything else that I may encounter out there on the road.
I have 2 stills camera systems already in a Pentax K1 mkII and Nikon D500 which I use for different things.... the AF on the Nikon is amazing so that gets wildlife and macro duty while the Pentax I usually use in manual focus mode and do landscapes, astro and also macro with it.
Not sure if I want to go down the route of a VDSLR, though I know that Sony and Lumix GH6 systems are really popular.... it just kind of crosses over to my stills cameras for me and I'm not sure if it makes any sense and I don't want to replace those systems. Sadly they really suck for video... :-(
Does Nikon have any camera that can record over 20 minutes I wonder, that effectively has more specific video features? Just wondering as it might tie in better with my lenses.... I'm not sure if the new Z range can record in RAW format for color grading etc...?
Currently I'm researching the Blackmagic Pocket range of cameras or the Studio 4k Micro after seeing these videos:
Does anyone have any experience with these cameras or would you recommend something else?
Not the greatest of shots as my area is way too light polluted but some stuff from my Pentax:
Additionally questions are what kind of lenses would be good? I'm really not keen on investing $60k on a video lens but something around the price of a good DSLR lens would work for me.... perhaps if I could use 2 lenses and a macro maybe? Even used would do the trick.... as from what I can tell the AF on the Blackmagic's is pretty crude which is similar to my Nikon in video mode, that only has one point.
The guy in the Youtube video example above was using classic Nikon lenses with aperture rings. I only have 1 lens like this which is a 50mm from 1977 that came with my FM 1 camera.
.....and finally like I've done above, is it possible to bring out the milkyway in videos or nebulosity? Normally in stills photography one would stretch the image as the data contained is in a non-linear plane. I used PixInsight for some of the stuff above, which is dedicated astro software normally meant to be used with full-spectrum cameras and multiple hours of exposure times.
- I'm kind of hoping that a Bortle 1 sky coupled together with a low enough shutter speed would give me a decent amount of data capture to pull something out of the sky? - not sure how flexible video is (I have just started playing around with Davinci Resolve Studio) in terms of if you can overlay two different processed versions of the same scene on top of each other like you would with sky replacement or so in Photoshop or background replacement in Gimp.
I am still learning and researching but this is just where things are at right now....
Any thoughts would be appreciated
