A beautiful shot/then a scary problem...

[Robbie Comeau]

First, on to the good side.

A nice shot I took with my DVX. I really liked it so I thought I'd post. I was practicing my lighting, and I wanted to try and have a black background, and my foreground nicely lit. It worked! I had to crush the blacks a bit in post to get rid of the background more.

Now to the scary problem:

A couple days ago I shot a video.

Something happened and it was the first time I experienced it.

My camera was on a hard surface, with my DVX on it. I was shooting, and all of a sudden, the image started going up and down, like the stabilizer was going wonky.

My OIS WAS on, but I always leave it on, so I don't think that had anything to do with it.

No, the ground didn't shake, it was definitely the camera itself that did it. It started doing it randomly for about 5-6 seconds, then stopped.

Here is the clip. any help would be much appreciated!

http://blip.tv/file/609814

Thanks,

Robbie

 

[ugafan]

My camera was on a hard surface, with my DVX on it. I was shooting, and all of a sudden, the image started going up and down, like the stabilizer was going wonky.

My OIS WAS on, but I always leave it on, so I don't think that had anything to do with it.

No, the ground didn't shake, it was definitely the camera itself that did it. It started doing it randomly for about 5-6 seconds, then stopped.

dude, your camera is broken! just kidding. it can do that sometimes if ois is on. if your camera is on a stable surface like a tripod you are supposed to turn the ois off.