FS7: Starry night sky with FS7?

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Vintegreo

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Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone here has ever shot a starry night sky with the FS7?

I'm headed to a camp this weekend where we'll be away from the light pollution of the city and would love to give it a try! Ideally I could do it with my Fujinon 20-120 3.5 lens....not the fastest, but this is just for my own fun.

If you have and can comment on settings, that would be great. I was thinking of doing an interval timelapse or something of that sort.

Thanks!

Tim
 
I've never tried this with my fs7 but I would think a slow shutter speed no ND would be a starting point. You should post the results.
 
You can't get the FS7's shutter speed anywhere near slow enough to shoot night skies. A one-second exposure is as slow as you can go with the FS7, so you'll need a DSLR for that kind of shooting.
 
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It kind of depends on your expectations I suppose. I've done it on my
FS700 and it looked pretty decent for a quick time-lapse.....obviously not
as good as a DSLR though. However, for me to get it to work, I used
a Sigma 18-35 F1.8 lens. Set the S&Q to 1fps and the shutter speed to one second
exposure. And of course, set the iris to F1.8. If you try this, the faster lens you can
have, the better. Otherwise, you have to up the gain and that introduces grain into
the image which is not ideal with so much of the frame being dark anyways. You can
get away with upping the gain a little, but I try to keep it as close to 0 as possible, which
is why I went for the Sigma 18-35 F1.8.
 
Vintegreo said:
I thought your stuff looked great!

Might have to borrow a faster lens to play around. I doubt the 3.5 on the Fujinon is going to cut it.
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Thanks. One other lens I use for this type of stuff is the $50 special.......old Canon
FD mount 50mm F1.4. I bought one off eBay for less than $50 than bought an adapter
from FD to E-mount for about $8. It isn't as wide but it will also shoot this type of stuff
just fine.
 
On a DSLR, I usually do 15-30 second exposures at around ISO1600 with a f/1.4 lens, so you're going to be struggling on the FS7 with and a f/3.5 lens.
 
alaskacameradude said:
Thanks. One other lens I use for this type of stuff is the $50 special.......old Canon
FD mount 50mm F1.4. I bought one off eBay for less than $50 than bought an adapter
from FD to E-mount for about $8. It isn't as wide but it will also shoot this type of stuff
just fine.
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I have this lens, and often it's my last resort when I have to get that low-light shot... But it's not very sharp - wouldn't it make the stars less attractive?

Piotr
 
Doug Jensen said:
That does not even come close to what I envisioned when the OP said he wanted to shoot "starry night sky" video.
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Doug -- Truth be told, I'd love to have something much more dramatic, but I was surprised that he was even able to get that much!

That said, what would Doug do? My guess is that you'd probably DSLR it, but I'd love to know what you'd do with the FS7.
 
Store to the exact same place on the card 30 times, each shot with the longest allowable 1 second exposure (hint: rewind the card after each shot; turn off overwrite mode).

Piotr
 
moldcad said:
Store to the exact same place on the card 30 times, each shot with the longest allowable 1 second exposure (hint: rewind the card after each shot; turn off overwrite mode).

Piotr
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Everyone's a comedian! I'm going to be here all night and don't forget to tip your server! :cheesy:
 
Vintegreo said:
Doug -- Truth be told, I'd love to have something much more dramatic, but I was surprised that he was even able to get that much!

That said, what would Doug do? My guess is that you'd probably DSLR it, but I'd love to know what you'd do with the FS7.
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I think Doug gave you a hint when he said a FS7 can't do this. The
longest shutter interval is 1 second, so the best you can do is get a fast
lens. Again it's not going to be anywhere near a DSLR, it all depends
on your expectations. I knew that going in but wanted to try and play
around with it and see what I could get.

But I think it's safe to say Doug would use a DSLR!
 
alaskacameradude said:
I think Doug gave you a hint when he said a FS7 can't do this. The
longest shutter interval is 1 second, so the best you can do is get a fast
lens. Again it's not going to be anywhere near a DSLR, it all depends
on your expectations. I knew that going in but wanted to try and play
around with it and see what I could get.

But I think it's safe to say Doug would use a DSLR!
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Truth!!!
 
Never tried but an idea:
Custom
Cinegamma7
ISO8000
NR high
Shutter 1sec

Sigma 35 1.4 art
Speedbooster x0.71

1s
ISO8000
F1.0

Eqv. to

10s
ISO1600
F1.4
 
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