basspig
Veteran
Yesterday, our town had its annual fireworks display. From the town green to the baseball diamond, there lies a spread of 3/4 mile of old time shops and a railroad station.
I traveled on foot with my FS7 and made three trips to the green, each time with a different lens.
I have the Tilta BS-T10 baseplate and the Fotga DP-3000 matte box attached to the FS7. I alternated between the 28-135 and my favorite prime, the Rokinon 16mm Cine. I recorded to the Shogun, mounted via rear shoe on the handle. I also recorded internally to XQD cards.
I used the XAVC-I content to make the videos, so the quality probably isn't up to the level of the Prores coming out of the Shogun, but I wanted the widescreen for these sweeping landscapes and citiscapes.
Ergonomics: Not too bad. The pad that rests on the shoulder could be less slippery, as it tends to slip off the shoulder now and then, but that's easy enough to remedy by gluing some friction pad to the existing rubber pad. Using one hand resting against the back of the mattbox, and the other on the Sony grip, extended frontwards, the rig is pretty manageable, even on foot for longer periods.
My one problem was that my right hand goes numb from holding the grip for more than ten minutes at a time. I soon cannot feel the record and magnify buttons and it becomes near impossible to find them. Fortunately, there's a second big record button on the left side of the camera body, so I use that when the right hand is out of commission.
The weight was manageable and I got some reasonably steady shots. Probably the most strain was incured moving the camera to/from the shoulder, as the wrist twisting angles and then holding the camera's weight out in front of you puts a strain on the back. With the camera loaded up with external attachments, it gets fairly heavy.
Lens changes were easy, done in the car. One BP-U60 lasted all afternoon and into the evening, but the Shogun was on its second battery for the fireworks (video currently uploading to Youtube).
This shoot convinced me that a Duclos 10-16mm lens would be a good investment. For our narrow streets, sometimes you need wider than 16mm to take it all in. The 28-135 was downright claustrophobic. It's good for zooming in on church steeples, but there's no 'wide' angle capability. The Rokinon 16mm is extremely sharp. The XAVC-I CODEC held up much better on this type of imagery than it did on waterfalls and wooded foliage. Not perfect, but good enough for a Youtube video.
Here's the first of two videos (second one is about 15% uploaded at this moment). Bear in mind, I could only do a rough edit, as my machine plays XAVC at about 1-2fps and I can't get a sense of the movement at that rate, so I jog shuttled through the clips and cut the best I could.
I traveled on foot with my FS7 and made three trips to the green, each time with a different lens.
I have the Tilta BS-T10 baseplate and the Fotga DP-3000 matte box attached to the FS7. I alternated between the 28-135 and my favorite prime, the Rokinon 16mm Cine. I recorded to the Shogun, mounted via rear shoe on the handle. I also recorded internally to XQD cards.
I used the XAVC-I content to make the videos, so the quality probably isn't up to the level of the Prores coming out of the Shogun, but I wanted the widescreen for these sweeping landscapes and citiscapes.
Ergonomics: Not too bad. The pad that rests on the shoulder could be less slippery, as it tends to slip off the shoulder now and then, but that's easy enough to remedy by gluing some friction pad to the existing rubber pad. Using one hand resting against the back of the mattbox, and the other on the Sony grip, extended frontwards, the rig is pretty manageable, even on foot for longer periods.
My one problem was that my right hand goes numb from holding the grip for more than ten minutes at a time. I soon cannot feel the record and magnify buttons and it becomes near impossible to find them. Fortunately, there's a second big record button on the left side of the camera body, so I use that when the right hand is out of commission.
The weight was manageable and I got some reasonably steady shots. Probably the most strain was incured moving the camera to/from the shoulder, as the wrist twisting angles and then holding the camera's weight out in front of you puts a strain on the back. With the camera loaded up with external attachments, it gets fairly heavy.
Lens changes were easy, done in the car. One BP-U60 lasted all afternoon and into the evening, but the Shogun was on its second battery for the fireworks (video currently uploading to Youtube).
This shoot convinced me that a Duclos 10-16mm lens would be a good investment. For our narrow streets, sometimes you need wider than 16mm to take it all in. The 28-135 was downright claustrophobic. It's good for zooming in on church steeples, but there's no 'wide' angle capability. The Rokinon 16mm is extremely sharp. The XAVC-I CODEC held up much better on this type of imagery than it did on waterfalls and wooded foliage. Not perfect, but good enough for a Youtube video.
Here's the first of two videos (second one is about 15% uploaded at this moment). Bear in mind, I could only do a rough edit, as my machine plays XAVC at about 1-2fps and I can't get a sense of the movement at that rate, so I jog shuttled through the clips and cut the best I could.
