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

[Kholi]

No exposure jumps due to focus, light levels, zoom, or color temperature. EVER?

Never. Period. Once I got it locked that was it. No more crazy jumping in exposure.

White Balance Menus are AWESOME. So in-depth, down to the point where you can make minor adjustments to color temp with a graph. Of course Auto Wb is cool, but still.

 

[Texanite]

Never. Period. Once I got it locked that was it. No more crazy jumping in exposure.

That's the best news I've heard all week. Thanks Kholi. Now let's see some footage!

 

[Kholi]

Note: Doesn't seem like you can change exposure on the fly, either. You have to exit the LV mode (Live View - D Movie screen) then change the exposure and F-stop before you see it happen in D-Movie.

THAT is why they have the Auto Setup out of the box, so that it Automatically does it for the less technically inclined.

 

[dfreerider]

Can you dial in the shutter speed in manual mode? Does turning the lense VR off help with the jello effect?

 

[Ian-T]

Heck...I've been using an HV20 and all it's little quirks....I could get used to that.

 

[Park Edwards]

Fan freaking tastic!! Buying mine, maybe, this weekend if I can find a buyer for my lens. If not, I'll probably just kit the body when it comes out or see if Ritz has it on Monday.

 

[Texanite]

Note: Doesn't seem like you can change exposure on the fly, either. You have to exit the LV mode (Live View - D Movie screen) then change the exposure and F-stop before you see it happen in D-Movie.

It took me a second to digest this. Are you saying that when you change exposure you're not actually seeing the exposure change as you're doing it? It's not that you can't change exposure while you're shooting but that you can't be in LV at all while changing exposure? How would you know when your exposure is correct if you can't see it change as you're doing it?

 

[Hunter Hampton]

Kholi- give us something to watch. And what is your verdict on the camera so far, would you consider it for production?

 

[Kholi]

It took me a second to understand this. Are you saying that when you change exposure you're not actually seeing the exposure change as you're doing it? It's not that you can't change exposure while you're shooting but that you can't be in LV at all while changing exposure? How would you know when your exposure is correct if you can't see it change as you're doing it?

Right, you can't see it as you do it in LV mode. You have to switch out then go back to it to see the changes. THus, no manual exposure change on the fly.

The only way to do this is to get a non AI lens that the camera can't read and adjust the stop that way. If I switch the lens off of Auto mode during shooting it throws an error but doesn't stop the video from being recorded.

Outside for some really fast test footage.

 

[Hunter Hampton]

you rock.

 

[Texanite]

Where's Zak? He's missing all the fun!

 

[booggerg2]

It took me a second to digest this. Are you saying that when you change exposure you're not actually seeing the exposure change as you're doing it? It's not that you can't change exposure while you're shooting but that you can't be in LV at all while changing exposure? How would you know when your exposure is correct if you can't see it change as you're doing it?

SLRs are not like video camera where you see a live feed from the sensor.. There is light meter in the camera and the exposure level is indicated in the viewfinder.

 

[shaocaholica]

SLRs are not like video camera where you see a live feed from the sensor.. There is light meter in the camera and the exposure level is indicated in the viewfinder.

Err, the newer DSLRs with LV can use the LV data to adjust exposure in addition to the traditional meter. Just like a video camera.

 

[Kholi]

Kholi- give us something to watch. And what is your verdict on the camera so far, would you consider it for production?

The skew is TERRIBLE. I mean HORRID. With that aside, yup. Cause just like every other shortcoming there's a way around it.

I don't have steady hands and a weighty camera is something you want, contrary to what people believe. This sucker needs to go on a little glidecam or something, monopod, sticks and it's on.

Gonna take the footage through Adobe Preimiere then hit Vimeo.

I warn you, it sucks! But no exposure jumps to prove that the AE-Lock does work.

 

[Hunter Hampton]

Thats good feedback.

 

[booggerg2]

oh no! jellovision.. I suppose we can all get used to that..

 

[Drew Ott]

I'll try to have some footage up by the end of the night. I literally messed with it for 2 minutes to check exposure lock, then set the battery up to charge. I am currently waiting.

I'm going to try to put it on a Steadicam and get some shallow DOF Steadicam footage. We'll see...

I also can't seem to find my SD card reader. I assume you can connect the camera directly to the computer.

 

[Hunter Hampton]

The award is waiting to be given out, who will claim it first!?

 

[Texanite]

SLRs are not like video camera where you see a live feed from the sensor.. There is light meter in the camera and the exposure level is indicated in the viewfinder.

But I thought the whole point of LiveView is that you do see a live feed from the sensor, right?

If you can see the exposure change in the viewfinder as you stop down or whatever, that would be okay, but I'm not sure that's true either. Since the Dmovie only works with matrix-metering, I'm not sure that an exposure level meter is necessarily going to tell me what I want to know.

When shooting film, I use a spot meter and an incident meter, but I'm deciding where those meters are reading the exposure. "matrix metering" meters the whole frame, doesn't it? That's not how I use a light meter or determine my exposure.

When shooting video formats, I'm using a monitor and, hopefully, additional electronic aids ranging from zebras to waveform monitoring to a histogram or whatever, but all of those are real-time. I guess you could just take stills with the D90 as you adjust your exposure, but I'm just saying I'm surprised that you have to go in-and-out of the video mode to adjust your exposure and that you can't even see the adjustments as you make them. Sort of trial and error.

Of course, with a manual lens, this shouldn't be a big deal.

 

[Kholi]

I'll try to have some footage up by the end of the night. I literally messed with it for 2 minutes to check exposure lock, then set the battery up to charge. I am currently waiting.

I'm going to try to put it on a Steadicam and get some shallow DOF Steadicam footage. We'll see...

I also can't seem to find my SD card reader. I assume you can connect the camera directly to the computer.

You can, doing it now. All DSLRs should have the ability to go USB out to PC.