post your best results with the D90

Well....

I think this is a very nice cam and is workable if you shoot locked down or have a great rig and had to keep things steady.

Short of that you get a a drug induced jello cam kinda shot.

Still. I put up my money for 2! :beer:
 
shinyrobot said:
I shot this today in 20 minutes, edited in 20 just to test out the camera. I read AFTER I went and did this test that you can lock the exposure, etc, which I will try next time. My friend Tim patiently let me tape him as we drove around and down to a park. Little bit of color correction to give it a look. I can't wait to shoot a short film on this. Overall I was impressed! This is a great camera. Is there a better place to post this?

http://vimeo.com/1720680
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Wow, looks great. Thanks for posting it. Did the original out of the camera footage look much different than that before your color correction.
 
John Caballero said:
I put up two more tests on Vimeo. They are for image stability while shooting handheld and focusing. The fact is that you have to hold the camera as tight as you can. You can't shake it the slightest bit, especially top and bottom, because the image becomes watery like and wobbles. If you are going to pan you have to do it slowly and in a gliding sort of way. It takes practice. Otherwise put it in a tripod with a smooth head.

http://www.vimeo.com/1721041
http://www.vimeo.com/1720836
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Looks great John. What lens were you using and what aperture?
 
hmm nice video the airport one
i've downloaded the video from vimeo but i can't do pixelpeeping since it's converted to h264 23.976. but it looks good anyway.
 
Estebeverde:

Where did you shoot this? It's pretty cool to see the girls working so hard to put together a great performance.
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The school is called Mestizo Art Center in Queens, New York. There is a beauty pageant today to pick two winners in the 8 to 12 year categories to be "queens" for the Queens Hispanic Parade on sept. 28. The girls in the video are guest artists and are going to dance today in the show. They love this stuff. I am the photographer for the pageant and for the parade.

cacophony

Looks great John. What lens were you using and what aperture?
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I used the kit lens, metered to the available light, which wasn't that great. As you know it is basically impossible to know the aperture this way. I don't have a manual lens, but I am planning to get a couple of them or maybe a good zoom in the near future. I am more worried at this time as to how the image can be totally stabilized. It would do no good, I feel, to have a perfectly exposed and focused image if at the end of the day it starts wobbling like crazy. We'll see what happens.
 
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Regarding the Download option on the Vimeo website. Are those the original 720p files or have they been compressed by Vimeo. I ask because i'm seeing some very nasty compression in ALL D90 videos.
 
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evilfoxhound said:
Regarding the Download option on the Vimeo website. Are those the original 720p files or have they been compressed by Vimeo. I ask because i'm seeing some very nasty compression in ALL D90 videos.
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well i know vimeo does use a compression scheme that squishes the snot out of hd files, so that might be what you're noticing.
 
evilfoxhound said:
Regarding the Download option on the Vimeo website. Are those the original 720p files or have they been compressed by Vimeo. I ask because i'm seeing some very nasty compression in ALL D90 videos.
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If you download via the download 720P option, then it should be the original file. But yeah, the MJPEG compression isn't exactly world class.
 
Thanks for the replies. I'm finding it hard to decide if I want this camera or not because some clips look great and other look poor (Nose and compresion wise).
 
John Caballero said:
Estebeverde:



The school is called Mestizo Art Center in Queens, New York. There is a beauty pageant today to pick two winners in the 8 to 12 year categories to be "queens" for the Queens Hispanic Parade on sept. 28. The girls in the video are guest artists and are going to dance today in the show. They love this stuff. I am the photographer for the pageant and for the parade.

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Awesome!

Looks like it will be fun!
 
I'm going to buy an old 50mm f1.4 and 24mm f2.8. Which primes should I go for, Ai, Ais, Af.. ?
 
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