The end of 35mm adapers and hv20s....

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Originally Posted by Car3o
and it's been said at least 15 times the exposure can be locked...on chase's blog and the guy who actually held the camera.

"But even the people who are saying that it is lockable are releasing footage showing where it's clearly NOT locked.

And I have heard no reasonable explanation why Nikon would release footage showing off their new HD camera with amatureish exposure jumps.

Is there any footage which pans across light and dark areas withOUT the exposure adjusting automatically?"

Don't know if this was answered but I believe that the solution to this flickering of exposure is to disable the automatic exposure compensation. Some people set the compensation to a stop or a smaller increment. This may be the reason for the flickering. Just a thought.
 
If you watch the footage from Japan (inside the building) you can see it jump at the beginning, but when he pans around, he is holding the AE-L button. (but by that time you are looking for skew and neglect to notice how the the camera doesn't jump exposure, even from going to a darker hall to a bright hall) Watch it again and you will see this.

Another example is the D-movie demo on the nikon website (not the horse one but the other one), there is a shot with a fisheye that shows two women walking inside (from brightness to the shadow) and it doesnt jump one bit.

If people want to believe that the exposure isnt lockable, thats fine, but it has been tested and found that it is lockable, by someone who actually used the camera. I dont think he was making it up.
 
The exposure is lockable. It'a called manual mode! And Exposure locks in all other modes too.....

I was analyzing the Nikon D90 video filmed with the D90. If you notice there are no exposure changes that I can see in the rotating camera shot. There're plenty of strong contrast between dark and lighted parts of the camera that would cause a shift at some point ( like the shot that did the tilt look over to reveal the D90 filming ) . However there are none that I can see. If you look at the tilt up shot from the d90 LCD screen that reveals that the D90 is the camera being used to film, it clearly reads manual ( like the photo I posted the other day ). Now the only exposure shifting that goes on, is the camera filming the camera and LCD to illustrate that the D90 was used. That's because obviously to film the different brightness of the lcd screen and the D90 under lights you need to have on the fly adjusting. Much easier to just have the camera in auto mode for that little shot that had everyone concerned. However in all the confusion in seeing that auto exposure mode, we overlooked that the main shots with the rotating camera appears to never change exposure even when filming many degrees of bright and darkness. That camera is on ( manual ) with a set ISO. BTW, it appears Nikon didn't shoot the add; I found this ( Nikon D90 Camera Product Video made for Nikon Europe by iSiteTV Ltd (www.isitetv.com) ).

Thought I would vomit this one up since, well cuz I have no d90 video links to post. Hmmmm :-/

Just my penny worth of observations.............


http://www.nikonproducts.co.uk/d90-video.aspx


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Anhar Miah said:
926 Posts!

wow!

I hope Nikon is watching this.
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No kidding! Almost 35 THOUSAND hits, and 1 Thousand responses. This thread is 1/3rd as large as the NIKON USER THREAD in the photography section, and that one has been around for over two years.

This one has been around for exactly ONE WEEK!

And on top of that, there's numerous more threads on this exact camera posted on forums throughout the internet.

This could be the largest internet buzz for a camera, video or still, ever. Seriously.​



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I have run out of food, I am going to go out and get some cheese, bread and ammunition, I will be no longer than 20 minutes, I have taught my 6 month old child to hit 'refresh' on the browser page - I just hope to god he stays awake . . .
 
What's weird to me, isn't that the exposure jumps, but it seems like the white balance is.....for instance the penguin video, goes from cool to warm. Am I seeing things? So whomever is holding the camera probably has everything on auto. Or i could be that the sun is coming out from behind the clouds.
 
I've searched Nikons webpage, but can't kind any email address, damn someone posted earlier (probably buried now) about actually emailing them, what is that email?

I'd like to point Nikon in this direction too.

I'm surprised we haven't crashed Nikons web server with, watching the clips over and over...

oh well what the heck, one more time..
 
Less than 2 to 3 weeks away from it's release.
So if we can't nab, bribe, kidnap a real tech rep on all the issues then we'll
have to do the other extreme measure....



Wait till it hits Circuit City or Best Buy.
I still say there is the flaw in that dang exposure.
 
Maybe there is, maybe not..... Maybe exposure can be locked, maybe not.... Maybe white balance shifts, maybe not....Maybe VR is causing major skew, maybe not....Maybe we landed on the moon maybe not....
 
I was geeking out with that Camcorder vs D90 that's on nikons site. Boosted color to both and slight brightness. Having such a dense CMOS sensor with tons more dynamic range just lends itself to deeper recording of colors and more. This was just for fun, however it shows having that large sensor is amazing like the RedOne does. I also did one where I boosted the brightness over the top and even though these files have been converted and who knows what else, the D90 still holds out better. It goes to show you that it always pays to start out with the best and go down from there. Like I said this was just for fun..

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