Asking for Guidelines: OIS on or off for pans; single play clips

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Denniscasey

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Just got HMC40 and have completed first read through of Barry's book and tried to understand most of downloaded Panasonic manual and have read a lot in this forum. I have "book learning" to begin experimenting with HMC40. However, would appreciate a few guidelines on following (and I hope Barry does not mind if I quote his book just to reference what I wonder about):

1. When handheld is it generally best (subjective term) to leave OIS on or off for (A) slow pan--scenery; (B) fast pan--follow race cars. Basis for question: On page 226 Barry points out if OIS is left on it might create "jerkiness" in pans as OIS tries to "compensate" for motion. Accordingly he suggests turning OIS off for tripod mounted pans. My question pertains to handheld situations where speed of pan may impact OIS "jerkiness."

2. Minor question. Is there some setting I can select to have camera just play a selected clip and then stop playback? Right now if I have 8 thumbnails on LCD screen I can "touch" number 5 and camera plays number 5 but then continues playing 6,7,8. No big deal I can just stop play as soon as I find camera playing clip 6 and then select 5 again. Just wonder if there is some setting I have not yet found to just play selected clip and then stop and display thumbnails--I could then select another single clip to play. As I say, no big deal but just wondering.
 
Panning the more you do it the more perfect you want it, I know is painful to carry a heavy tripod, at this point I do all my pans with this little monster without OIS
Handheld OIS yes, + Monopod

 
If you want it to play only one clip -- well, I can think of a way to make it do that, but I don't know if it's the only way... anyway, you can use the "shot mark" function to mark that clip, and then sort the icons to only show marked clips -- in which case it should only show that one clip. Then when you play, it'll play only that one clip. I think. Don't have the HMC40 in front of me right now, but ... I think that'll work...
 
Felipe Henao said:
Panning the more you do it the more perfect you want it, I know is painful to carry a heavy tripod, at this point I do all my pans with this little monster without OIS
Handheld OIS yes, + Monopod

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Great rig Felipe and I learned quite a bit about features to look for in a professional set up by watching video. That set up would be great for situations where I am driving so packing size and weight is not a big deal. However, per my previous posts I also have situations where airline travel or hiking means collapsed length and weight take precedence over best tripod setup. After doing more experimentation with old monopod I had I find I still wobble quite a bit on telephoto so probably for me some sort of lightweight tripod would be best.
 
Barry_Green said:
If you want it to play only one clip -- well, I can think of a way to make it do that, but I don't know if it's the only way... anyway, you can use the "shot mark" function to mark that clip, and then sort the icons to only show marked clips -- in which case it should only show that one clip. Then when you play, it'll play only that one clip. I think. Don't have the HMC40 in front of me right now, but ... I think that'll work...
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Thanks Barry, I'll try marked clips and see what happens. Situation I was referring to was where I have 8 good clips/thumbnails showing on LCD, I wanted to tap clip 4 and just play it - --play through that single clip , camera would stop play at end of that clip. I could then tap clip 6 and just play that single clip and so forth. If I mark just one clip I am sure your thought would work, but if I mark several "good" clips I am thinking it will play all of them sequentially, but I will try it. Just one of my quirks to waste time on minor issue like this till I find a solution or determine just live with it.
 
Denniscasey said:
Great rig Felipe and I learned quite a bit about features to look for in a professional set up by watching video. That set up would be great for situations where I am driving so packing size and weight is not a big deal. However, per my previous posts I also have situations where airline travel or hiking means collapsed length and weight take precedence over best tripod setup. After doing more experimentation with old monopod I had I find I still wobble quite a bit on telephoto so probably for me some sort of lightweight tripod would be best.
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Yes in those cases I found a very compact and workable tripod
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/655223-REG/Induro_472_214_Alloy_8M_AT214_Tripod.html
 
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