Snow settings with dvx

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PheelGoodInc

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High guys. Some of you may have seen my other thread about the fisheye and realized I am a noob here. I did search for snow settings and I got about 10 pages and not a single one of them had what I was looking for.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with shooting in the snow with the dvx. Particular settings that would start me off would be nice. Or if it comes down to it I can just try a ton of different stuff until it gets good enough. Thanks guys. :thumbsup:
 
Ive never shot in the snow... but Id imagine a uv filter would be a good place start.
 
my dvx finally comes in the mail tomorrow and i'll be using it to shoot in the snow a lot, so i don't have much experience yet.. but i'd say use your zebras and ND filters to help with exposure especially in the sun.
 
And some ND filters maybe....you already got 2, but snow's really really bright. Can you even put more filters on the fisheye? I don't know. If I remember from the other thread, you'll be doing snowboarding? Probably wanna bump your shutter up a bit too. That'll knock down your exposure and get you nice crisp frames that'll look better if you're slowin' tricks down in post.
-Ryan
 
HybridCreations said:
And some ND filters maybe....you already got 2, but snow's really really bright. Can you even put more filters on the fisheye? I don't know. If I remember from the other thread, you'll be doing snowboarding? Probably wanna bump your shutter up a bit too. That'll knock down your exposure and get you nice crisp frames that'll look better if you're slowin' tricks down in post.
-Ryan
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Yes this camera was bought mainly for snowboarding vids. Thanks for the info. I have uv and nd filters.
 
I take it you have some proceedure for wrapping the camera in a wet suit cover ?
and temperture difference between inside and outside .
One thing which I immediatly guessed at was .
Would you want to play out a test with some minus numbers in master ped ?
and then some plus numbers ?
It may cause greater contrast and return some black with all that outside bounce light .
then again in a high contrast situation I wonder if a plus number in master ped work something like a Tiffen ultra contrast .
I am throwing out some test suggestions only .
Hope that helps
Bruce
 
Bruce Morgan said:
I take it you have some proceedure for wrapping the camera in a wet suit cover ?
and temperture difference between inside and outside .
One thing which I immediatly guessed at was .
Would you want to play out a test with some minus numbers in master ped ?
and then some plus numbers ?
It may cause greater contrast and return some black with all that outside bounce light .
then again in a high contrast situation I wonder if a plus number in master ped work something like a Tiffen ultra contrast .
I am throwing out some test suggestions only .
Hope that helps
Bruce
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I am sorry, I was totally lost by that. I am new the DVX. Care to dumben it down for me?

Yes I use a ghetto store grocery bag to cover the cam during snow. I will look into a real cover. I am pretty caution about taking it from a warm atmosphere to a cold one. I always sit the camera outside for about 20 min before turning it on.
 
there are companies that make a great protective cover out of surfers wet suit material .
So look on line and if you have an old wetsuit cut a pattern and make one for your dvx !
I am working on such a project now and Ill bet there is a tutorial somewhere here or more advice .
as for the master pedistal test read in you scene file settings manual segment about this .Then look at Jarred 's artical on master pedestal setting .
My assumption is a wild guess that having a handy extra file setting on the scene file dial or on the user 1 or 2 may quickly get you out of a jam by haveing presets for blown out highlight scenes(master ped -10) or scenes that are just all white bounce light ,in which case a negative number in master pedestal may return some snappy contrast to the scene
in deep shadow scenes a master ped of +5 may kick up some detail in shadow areas .
I warn you that i am just guessing and you should only consider this advice for a test not a shot .
Good Luck
Bruce
 
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