Hey,
So I've ordered my D90, woo!, it should come Tuesday, super excited. I'm one from the Sony Ex1 + Letus Extreme camp so looking forwards to carrying something lighter!
That being said, I have a question or two if I may.
I've been looking at SDHC memory cards to buy and would prefer to shoot one of decent capacity, pref 16gb as I shoot a lot of bands so it'd be good to have, if nothing else, the potential capacity to shoot a whole set or two (if multiple bands on the bill).
That being said I see a massive discrepancy in prices, so much so that I've no idea what I actually need - I've read the D90 has a data transfer rate of less than 2mb sec when video. However I do want to do some burst stills shooting, the 4.5 per sec jobby, which suggests it'd be good to have the buffer for that too.
Take this for example - http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/3583118/Play-com-16GB-SD-HC-Memory-Card/Product.html?cm_mmc=Froogle-_-Electronics-_-Memory+Cards-_-Play.com%2B16GB%2BSD%2BHC%2BMemory%2BCard&source=5065&engine=froogle_electronics&keyword=Play.com+16GB+SD+HC+Memory+Card - £16 quid for a 16 gb card seems great, but will it be too slow for transfer?
This for example is double the price for a 'named' brand - http://www.lowpricememory.co.uk/Sandisk-16gb-video-SDHC-Memory-Card.html
And then there's the 16gb Ultra III's that cost £100!
Money is a bit of an issue in that I'm not rich, heh, so would prefer to be able to cut corners where I can! Thanks a lot for any suggestions!
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Also, I have one question about lenses.
I currently have three lenses, a 50mm 1.4, 105mm f2.8 and a cheap 70-210ish f4 zoom.
I'm looking to get a wide angle lens but I want some control over DoF with it. A few months ago I worked on a short for a friend shot by a great dop who normally does films, we used an Ex1 and Letus with Zeiss movie lenses. This dop really loved the 18mm lens, and apparently used an 18mm lens almost exclusively on the film franchise he worked on, here's some sample images from it.
Note - these were uploaded by a mate to facebook so they're low res and in the wrong aspect, they should be widescreen w/2.35 crop but they were added as 4x3 so they're squished!:
http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=n22240161333133325502zu9.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=n2224016133322535430xn4.jpg
These aren't the best images to show what I mean, but what I really liked about the shots is that the dop had a nice roll off of focus. Moreover, he had control of focus throughout the image.
In the sales last month I bought a Sigma 20mm f1.8 and took it back within a few days. It simply didn't give me focus control through the depth of the image, in essence I had control from zero to 2 foot, but beyond that nothing.
Therefore, I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a lens that will keep focus throughout the image, in other words, that will let me focus on something a foot, a few feet, and even more in the background, essentially to be able to rack some focus and not just have everything in focus!
I was wondering what's the widest lens people could recommend that would give me this control. The 20mm was evidently too wide with the Nikon range wheras it was better with the Zeiss lens, but I wanted to know at what MM I will get this focus control.
Many and much appreciated thanks!
EDIT - I thought of another question! I intend to output a 16x9 widescreen video but with a crop to 2.35 as I really like the look, at the moment at least. I was wondering if anyone knows a good way to mask for this aspect? I'm ok with just giving a bit of headroom, but personally I like to be more exact if possible and would like to mask for 2.35 if possible.
So I've ordered my D90, woo!, it should come Tuesday, super excited. I'm one from the Sony Ex1 + Letus Extreme camp so looking forwards to carrying something lighter!
That being said, I have a question or two if I may.
I've been looking at SDHC memory cards to buy and would prefer to shoot one of decent capacity, pref 16gb as I shoot a lot of bands so it'd be good to have, if nothing else, the potential capacity to shoot a whole set or two (if multiple bands on the bill).
That being said I see a massive discrepancy in prices, so much so that I've no idea what I actually need - I've read the D90 has a data transfer rate of less than 2mb sec when video. However I do want to do some burst stills shooting, the 4.5 per sec jobby, which suggests it'd be good to have the buffer for that too.
Take this for example - http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/3583118/Play-com-16GB-SD-HC-Memory-Card/Product.html?cm_mmc=Froogle-_-Electronics-_-Memory+Cards-_-Play.com%2B16GB%2BSD%2BHC%2BMemory%2BCard&source=5065&engine=froogle_electronics&keyword=Play.com+16GB+SD+HC+Memory+Card - £16 quid for a 16 gb card seems great, but will it be too slow for transfer?
This for example is double the price for a 'named' brand - http://www.lowpricememory.co.uk/Sandisk-16gb-video-SDHC-Memory-Card.html
And then there's the 16gb Ultra III's that cost £100!
Money is a bit of an issue in that I'm not rich, heh, so would prefer to be able to cut corners where I can! Thanks a lot for any suggestions!
---
Also, I have one question about lenses.
I currently have three lenses, a 50mm 1.4, 105mm f2.8 and a cheap 70-210ish f4 zoom.
I'm looking to get a wide angle lens but I want some control over DoF with it. A few months ago I worked on a short for a friend shot by a great dop who normally does films, we used an Ex1 and Letus with Zeiss movie lenses. This dop really loved the 18mm lens, and apparently used an 18mm lens almost exclusively on the film franchise he worked on, here's some sample images from it.
Note - these were uploaded by a mate to facebook so they're low res and in the wrong aspect, they should be widescreen w/2.35 crop but they were added as 4x3 so they're squished!:
http://img264.imageshack.us/my.php?image=n22240161333133325502zu9.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=n2224016133322535430xn4.jpg
These aren't the best images to show what I mean, but what I really liked about the shots is that the dop had a nice roll off of focus. Moreover, he had control of focus throughout the image.
In the sales last month I bought a Sigma 20mm f1.8 and took it back within a few days. It simply didn't give me focus control through the depth of the image, in essence I had control from zero to 2 foot, but beyond that nothing.
Therefore, I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a lens that will keep focus throughout the image, in other words, that will let me focus on something a foot, a few feet, and even more in the background, essentially to be able to rack some focus and not just have everything in focus!
I was wondering what's the widest lens people could recommend that would give me this control. The 20mm was evidently too wide with the Nikon range wheras it was better with the Zeiss lens, but I wanted to know at what MM I will get this focus control.
Many and much appreciated thanks!
EDIT - I thought of another question! I intend to output a 16x9 widescreen video but with a crop to 2.35 as I really like the look, at the moment at least. I was wondering if anyone knows a good way to mask for this aspect? I'm ok with just giving a bit of headroom, but personally I like to be more exact if possible and would like to mask for 2.35 if possible.
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