![]() However, I took a DSLR video course earlier this year, and the teacher (who shoots beautiful cinematic wedding videos) essentially shoots in manual mode, choosing his aperture in advance (yes you could have chosen a smaller aperture in advance for bigger depth of field), and adjusting his shutter speed on the fly to get the right exposure as lighting changes. Most serious DSLR video shooters do not use autofocus because the camera tends to hunt, and that ruins the shot.Īs for exposure, you can still use exposure compensation in the metering, and any time you are shooting a brightly lit subject against a dark background, you have to adjust exposure comp to -1 stop or something similar (you can check with spot metering). THE FOLLOWING ARE LISTED IN THE INFORMATION BUT WHY ARE THEY LISTED IF THEY DO NOT COUNT FOR A MOVIE? VR: Off (I used a tripod wedged in between the rows of seats) I am not sure if A1 means automatic because there is also an A2 on the D750. Should I have manually set narrow aperture like f/16 to get the whole stage in focus instead of leaving it to the camera? But the rectangle in the center was not on those heads and sometimes it took a long time to get it to turn green. It can be seen in the short sample of the movie. The camera may have tried to focus on the heads in front of me but I don't think so because I would aim higher and half-press the shutter to re-focus and it still took a long time to re-focus. In the movie you see it go out of focus by itself. Sitting fifth-row center, the heads from people in front of me are in the bottom of the shot. There was just no good spot to record from.įocus goes in and out. Initially I tried the first row but I was always looking slightly up and was afraid the dancers feet would not always be visible. I realize now I should have zoomed out to avoid the panning back and forth. This also means I was panning around the stage as she moved. Mostly at 120mm to focus on my granddaughter. I used the Nikkor 24-120mm lens that came with the camera kit. Those are not on the "i" menu to remind me. The D750 has that "i" button for movie settings but is everything really in that short menu? What about setting aperture to get the whole stage in focus? What about metering mode. ![]() Every movie was out of focus and brightness was wrong. I shot the granddaughter's recital dances.
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