View Full Version : More serious slow motion test
pailes
12-02-2008, 03:55 AM
Hello everybody,
for those interested in extreme sports and slow motion I shot this last weekend:
http://www.vimeo.com/2384547
Feedback of all kinds is always appreciated.
ilauzirika
12-02-2008, 06:10 AM
This looks great! Love the sharpness of the image!
This video proves that this camera has a huge potential in slow motion!
videoamater
12-02-2008, 06:32 AM
Very cool!
shrigg
12-02-2008, 12:10 PM
Beautiful! Manual focus rules on this one. Zoomed all the way in I assume?
Great music selection too, I love Bonobo
pailes
12-02-2008, 01:19 PM
Beautiful! Manual focus rules on this one. Zoomed all the way in I assume?
Thanks for the comments. The focus assistant makes it very easy to deal with the manual focus. You're right the first close up shots were taken at almost full zoom. This is my first HD camcorder, but the quality is impressive. It almost looks filmish. This is so much fun, but most of the atmosphere comes with the music :)
matt s.
12-02-2008, 04:10 PM
Looks great! The end lapse was sweet too!
davideo.net
12-02-2008, 04:51 PM
Really good stuff. High speed shutter?
mgilbert
12-02-2008, 06:54 PM
Love seeing the clips...thanks
ESTEBEVERDE
12-03-2008, 01:07 AM
Hello everybody,
for those interested in extreme sports and slow motion I shot this last weekend:
http://www.vimeo.com/2384547
Feedback of all kinds is always appreciated.
Can you please post the 720/50p straight up without conforming to 24p?
pailes
12-03-2008, 04:34 AM
Can you please post the 720/50p straight up without conforming to 24p?
I have to find a way since vimeo only supports 24fps and does very bad retiming.
ESTEBEVERDE
12-03-2008, 10:47 PM
I have to find a way since vimeo only supports 24fps and does very bad retiming.
Could we upload it somewhere else perhaps?
How big is the file?
Lee_B
12-04-2008, 01:00 AM
It looked real nice. Do you plan to get a fisheye for it?
pailes
12-04-2008, 04:22 AM
It looked real nice. Do you plan to get a fisheye for it?
Yes, but I'm not sure which one to get, as the favourite choice (0.3X Ultra Fisheye from Schneider/Century) doesn't seem to be available.
Lee_B
12-04-2008, 04:30 AM
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/588915-REG/Century_Precision_Optics_0HD_FEAD_AG_FISHEYE_HD_AD APTER_f_AG170_150.html#features
I was thinking that, but I'm sure it won't be that wide. I just noticed it's not even a bayonet. It has 72 threads. Eh.
pailes
12-04-2008, 06:13 AM
I've seen that too, but it's only 0.55x or something. Dunno about the quality, there is also 16x9 and raynox doing similar lenses like this one.
Justyn
12-06-2008, 09:52 AM
the century .55 is awesome and I too like bayonet.. WAY better than threading a lens. I'm going to get one for the 150..
Sucks that Century won't make an adapter for the HVX stuff I have.. both fish and tele. The guy at Century was a complete ass... as well as unimformed on some principles of phyics.. but the overall feedback i got was that they aren't going to make any bayonette adapters for HVX stuff to fit on the 150 or 170.. they are just making new stuff.
pailes
12-06-2008, 01:50 PM
Do you know if they're planning to release the 0.3X ultra wide fisheye?
mikeymic
01-26-2009, 06:59 PM
try www.blip.tv (http://www.blip.tv) i find it's much better than vimeo.
what was your shutter speed set at? I assume you're shooting 60i and then stretching it 24p?
Strobe Media
01-26-2009, 10:00 PM
Do you know if they're planning to release the 0.3X ultra wide fisheye?
i don't think they'll made a "death lens" for the hmc, their idea is to have a professional look with the HD cameras, hence the reason there's the 16x9 lens then the Century X-treme fisheye, because the consumer is looking for a more professional look, the more barrel distortion and widenss you give the lens, the more vignetting it will have and just look gross in high definition.
ESTEBEVERDE
01-26-2009, 10:48 PM
i don't think they'll made a "death lens" for the hmc, their idea is to have a professional look with the HD cameras, hence the reason there's the 16x9 lens then the Century X-treme fisheye, because the consumer is looking for a more professional look, the more barrel distortion and widenss you give the lens, the more vignetting it will have and just look gross in high definition.
Not if you are a skateboarder! :thumbsup:
pailes
01-27-2009, 02:15 AM
i don't think they'll made a "death lens" for the hmc, their idea is to have a professional look with the HD cameras, hence the reason there's the 16x9 lens then the Century X-treme fisheye, because the consumer is looking for a more professional look, the more barrel distortion and widenss you give the lens, the more vignetting it will have and just look gross in high definition.
Most likely I will go for the 0.45x century fisheye. Together with the natural wide angle of the HMC it will give you about 107° of horizontal viewing angle. I think that's enough.
pailes
01-27-2009, 02:19 AM
try www.blip.tv (http://www.blip.tv) i find it's much better than vimeo.
Maybe, but I'm kinda tired jumping from one video on demand service to the next ;)
what was your shutter speed set at? I assume you're shooting 60i and then stretching it 24p?
It's all listed on the vimeo page. 1/1000th shutter speed, filmed in 50p. Rendering a slowmo from interlaced footage doesn't look so clear.