SONY EX ** Pan or Handheld motion, Natural Motion Blur and Rolling shutter

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vincent thomas

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Hi fellows :)

Of what i have seen, I do like the sharpness of the EX1 and EX3 but i'm a little concerned in case of faster camera mouvements . I haven't seen much example so far, excepted the short "the Trench" from Philip Bloom but looks like he has been using a fast shutter speed with no blur at all. So i guess that's a good way to avoid rolling shutter problems...

What about if i want a more natural blur? Undercranking and a slower shutterspeed ?

Cheers


vincent*

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Actually, faster shutter exaggerates the two rolling shutter issues, skew and partial exposure. Skew is more evident because there is no motion blur to mask the distortion of subject and partial exposure is exaggerated because there is a smaller "slit" being exposed at one time and partial exposure becomes guaranteed rather than just probable.

Anyway, except for pretty extreme shooting, the rolling shutter issue is WAY overemphasized on this forum as a production issue. The camera shoots beautiful images in most situations where a film camera would (film cameras are subject to skew and partial exosure as well, but not as much as the EX1).

Barry's philosphy of knowing the limitations of your tools is the right one, and rolling shutter is a limitation. But it's so far from the top of the list when choosing this fine camera, unless you will specifically be shooting paparazzi situations or the like.

But let's not turn this thread into another rolling shutter debate, OK?
 
And any legit rental house will give you time with the camera. Some might charge you a small fee. And if you're not near a rental house find someone in the area with an EX. They're selling like crazy.
The manual is online. Read it. Go to rental house and play to your hearts content. Change the shutter, whip pan the thing, run and gun it. All it takes is either going to a toggle switch or the menus to change settings. Slate your tests shots. You can do this in 30 minutes total.
Take out the card out of the cam and download to your laptop. go home and pour over the shots and then you will truly know if the cam is for you. It won't come from a post on a forum.
 
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