MIRRORLESS: Photo and Video together? Shooting 8k at 60fps and grabbing 8k still images

hasselblad

hasselblad

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I am a wedding photographer. I want to shoot photo and video together. I am planning to shoot 8k at 60fps and grabbing 8k still images whenever I can not utilize Canon R5 Mark ii-s still frame capture while shooting HD 30fps video.

Has anybody tried to do this? I would use the 8k screen capture only when the camera is on the gimbal and I can not touch the shutter button. Otherwise I am planning to swith still and video capture and shoot video while using the shutter button at important moments.

Any recommendations?
 
The problem you'll run into is shutter speed. The optimal speed for 60 fps will be 1/120th. Is that going to be fast enough for stills? In my experience, it is not. And if you crank the shutter speed very far above 1/120th, then the motion in your video won't look correct. You can't cover both without one or the other suffering.
 
Doug Jensen said:
The problem you'll run into is shutter speed. The optimal speed for 60 fps will be 1/120th. Is that going to be fast enough for stills? In my experience, it is not. And if you crank the shutter speed very far above 1/120th, then the motion in your video won't look correct. You can't cover both without one or the other suffering.
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100% this. ^ You may find the occasional frame that you manage to grab out of your video footage where things look ok but trying to do both at once is a fool’s errand. Set yourself up for success by making sure your client knows that doing one or the other makes for a good product but trying to do both at once means neither is done well.
 
I think, I dont know what I think.

If you are doing 'hero' video, maybe shooting 120 and the shutter is 240, then the stills will be good.

If you want to play that back at 'real time' then frame interpolation (digital motion blur) is getting better.. its basically OK.

So I think.. strt with a high shutter and go from there with your experiments.

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A decent still snapper will be a sniper popping of very planned 'taps' - So maybe a centre fram landscape, a frame with left looks space a frame with right lookspace and an up right and/or a 'cover upright' which is an upright with 30% sky.

So the still snapper is using some form of fire and manouver.

Which will make the worst video shot ever!

But can the stills alo be compromised? that lookspace often isnt needed.. and can be digutally made now.

So compromise the video shutter blur and also the stills compositional varience and you might have something.

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The concept is not to be thrown in the bin.

I started on film and am very minimal with my stills. but my chum ben does have a new way. He basically strat blatting when he thinks something might happen.

He saw this girl move so he just took some frames, only after did he realise he 'had something' the rest of 'the pack' missed it.
 

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You'll look goofy while running all over the place, but if you adapt to it correctly, it can work. See what you can get out of it. But my advice for selling this to your client is to offer this deal at half off, maybe even 75% off if you're really unsure. Added, my T2i has 4k photos, so a frame from 6k video can do well.

Make your rig as simple as possible have it just pop on and pop off. Bring a monopod, make sure it can stand on its own, and then use it for your project. Monopod video and photos, and frames from video as photos. Focus mainly on standard basic coverage not anything fancy or artistic. Communicate with your client that it won't be perfect, but close enough, and that you'll be spending more time editing to get it done. Stick to a hybrid camera that can do most of the work. I suggest a Sony Alpha Series camera with a Sony FE 24-135mm and Sony FE 100-300mm (do those lenses exist?) with IS and AF, just those two lenses, or if it exists a 24-300mm.

Mainly prioritize what is more important as a photo vs. video as since you're experienced you know what is more valuable on video vs. photo. Essentially what it'll look like is 1990's home video wedding mixed in with flash photographs. If you have something way overly ambitious in mind while not going the guerilla way I suggested, I suggest hiring someone to do photos while you do video or vice versa, because something in that mix has to be compromised.
 
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