Martti Ekstrand
06-13-2009, 04:43 PM
Helloooooo measurebators.
Of course I get the camera on a really rainy day busy with work and then family dinner but yesterday between that I managed to dick around with the menus for 10 minutes, screw it on to my Hague Mini Motion Cam and ran out to the playground outside my building. Did two takes, 1080 + 720 and tried to do roughly similar walks, you see it all include shakes when starting and stopping record. Settings were kit lens at 20mm, f4.4, shutter 1/50, 200 ISO, film mode: smooth, contrast -1, sharpness -2, saturation -1 and noise reduction -2, blue overcast evening with rain in the air. I set the focus manually about 5-6 meters out as there were nothing really to track for auto focus.
All done within 20 minutes after the battery had charged up.
I haven't had time to evaluate these myself but they played in VLC without any obvious errors. For some reason Voltaic won't convert the 720 take but it plays in VLC. Rain held up for just the time I was out but I think there's one drop on the lens in the 1080 take.
First come, first serve at Megaupload as long as they allow. Feel free to host the files or convert for Vimeo, YouTube or whatever.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N8R8HK18
I was also out in the midnight hours and got some nice lowlife stuff with a Canon FD 35mm f2.0. This puppy loves the darkness. However whipping AVCHD into something workable is a big bag of pain. Voltaic outputs the all the frames in the 50p stream as 25 fps so the converted clip's metadata needs to be hacked and the conversion is a pretty slow process, Log&Transfer in my FCP crashes due to conflicts with some other codec which I haven't isolated but probably something I need for my day job. If I get time tomorrow I'll test out Cineform and might get a short cut together.
Rip it apart. I off to bed.
Of course I get the camera on a really rainy day busy with work and then family dinner but yesterday between that I managed to dick around with the menus for 10 minutes, screw it on to my Hague Mini Motion Cam and ran out to the playground outside my building. Did two takes, 1080 + 720 and tried to do roughly similar walks, you see it all include shakes when starting and stopping record. Settings were kit lens at 20mm, f4.4, shutter 1/50, 200 ISO, film mode: smooth, contrast -1, sharpness -2, saturation -1 and noise reduction -2, blue overcast evening with rain in the air. I set the focus manually about 5-6 meters out as there were nothing really to track for auto focus.
All done within 20 minutes after the battery had charged up.
I haven't had time to evaluate these myself but they played in VLC without any obvious errors. For some reason Voltaic won't convert the 720 take but it plays in VLC. Rain held up for just the time I was out but I think there's one drop on the lens in the 1080 take.
First come, first serve at Megaupload as long as they allow. Feel free to host the files or convert for Vimeo, YouTube or whatever.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N8R8HK18
I was also out in the midnight hours and got some nice lowlife stuff with a Canon FD 35mm f2.0. This puppy loves the darkness. However whipping AVCHD into something workable is a big bag of pain. Voltaic outputs the all the frames in the 50p stream as 25 fps so the converted clip's metadata needs to be hacked and the conversion is a pretty slow process, Log&Transfer in my FCP crashes due to conflicts with some other codec which I haven't isolated but probably something I need for my day job. If I get time tomorrow I'll test out Cineform and might get a short cut together.
Rip it apart. I off to bed.