Comments on: Brazil and Mexico Shoot – WRAPPED!!!

By: Rambo

Rambo — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:43:12 +0000

Well done Christian .. a lesser man would have fallen apart after all that. The HVX is a Legend, you can never sell it now.

For the jetski/boat shot, i use a monopod extended about 600mm with a 1kg weight on the bottom. Hand position is just above center of gravity with the second hand gently guiding to check tilt. I can generally get 30 – 60 seconds of steady footage that way from the rear of a jetski. (poor mans steadycam but works really well and no excessive gear to carry)

Cheers Rambo
(also tired after 10 days in Rarotonga and loooooong days shooting at sea)

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:12:33 +0000

For some reason, that phrase was in my head almost constantly on this trip. . .very weird. . .I think we were brainwashed!

By: Tiarne

Tiarne — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:21:26 +0000

Hello!
Have loved following you on your trip. I was sitting on the train this morning and i remembered this phrase “Dónde está el baño?” and then I spent a good 20 minutes wondering why on earth the phrase “Where is the toilet?” had popped into my head at all.
I had an overwhelming urge to tell you about it… so there you go.
x

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:03:23 +0000

Oh yeah, the aliasing can be really awful! It’s just a fact of life with these camera’s though. I see it often, especially when aiming a camera straight out to sea at Sunset. It manifests on the horizontal lines of the waves, resulting in lots of crappy red and blue pixels where there shouldn’t be.

I mean you really don’t have to be a genius to look at the footage coming out of the 7D and know it’s not resolving anywhere near 1080P. Maybe it’s resolving 720P if you’re lucky. I don’t need a resolution chart to tell me that. Even the Sony EX1 doesn’t resolve 1080 vertical lines (it comes close though) and it is so much sharper and more defined than the 7D image.

As far as I know there is no way to shortcut the aliasing. It’s there – period. Turning the sharpening down can decrease the effect, but there is no fix. . .You either shoot around it’s shortcomings or learn to live with them.

For me, I care, I hate it, wish it wasn’t there just so I knew the image was always going to perform as expected. But seriously, would a client notice? Probably not. . .Would a punter sitting at home watching ABC notice? Probably not. They’d likely think something was wrong with their TV before they faulted the camera’s you were using!

Oh, and I have external drives. . . .Lots of them. . .:)

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:57:44 +0000

I have read that the alaising and moire is quite bad in the 7D, what effect has it had on your video if any? And at my work (ABC TV) we are using P2 heavily and find ourselves wondering about short term backups (before media goes to DLT). What do you do with footage after shooting it? Dump it to PC HDD or portable HDD? Duplicates?

Thanks for your time and effort putting all those gorgeous pix up BTW.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:48:51 +0000

Thanks David! Yeah, I was pleased to keep my breakfast down too!

That red fringe is the result of my oversight more than anything! I should have noticed it and taken it out! Seriously though, it’s a bit of chromatic aberration from the lens. It’s quite easy to remove in Lightroom or Photoshop, both have dedicated tools for it.

I don’t normally see it in the video too much though, mostly only stills. Possibly because the video resolution is so low by comparison.

By: david

david — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:49:13 +0000

great pix, cant wait to see the vision, glad chunder not included. Whts up with the red fringe around the arch? Is that a lens artefact or an imaging one from the chip?