Understanding and Optimizing the Nikon D90 D-Movie Mode Image

set the aperture ring at f22 but not the wheel.

if you aperture lock it at f16 it's not gonna get smaller. if you aperture lock it at f1.8 it's not gonna get any bigger.

i usually lock it at f8 or f10 or something of that nature.
 
Try taping over the contacts on the lens. Or you when you attach the lens, just don't twist it all the way into place. If the contacts are separated, the body and lens can't communicate and it becomes a fully manual lens.
 
Yes that worked. If i dont twist it all the way into place the camera doesnt open the lense to full arperture - and now its fully controllable - thanks now it works. I think thats the only workaround. If you tape the contacts i think the camera will still open to wide open arperture - it seems like a mechanical connection.
thanks
 
Back to the first posts! It seems like the trick to archieve low-iso works also on the D300s. But if the D300s can do more tricks than the D90 (probably not), I would be happy to hear about them. :)
 
Hello here!

I have a D90 also.. and I cannot get a decent image from it.. images are beatiful but the high compression makes the footage unusable for even SD video. Blocks are bigger that an old mpeg1 one file!

I'm the only one????
 
Hey!

I've got the same proble like jjrecort, and it's really annoing! I've bought D90 (18-105 kit lenses) this weak and the video's picture is terrible. Looks like compression problem (blocks and stips everywhere).
Please help us !!!

 
The D90 is not an out of the box pristine video recording device. You need
to learn how to use the camera first. It takes work to get the best out of D90 video, but
it is time well spent. There are many different settings configurations within the camera that affect video image. In spite of the "it's not fully manual" talk, there are many, many adjustments that can be made to D90 video in camera.

You should not have "blocks" in your video under typical circumstances. What's the light level in your blocky video? What are you shooting? How are you shooting? What are your in camera settings?
Have you experimented with settings and explored the camera you have just bought? Have you
read the early posts on this thread? You and the previous poster need to be more patient and
get to know the great device you now own.
 
Yes i need patient i know, i just not expected, that i have to play whit the settings to get a "better compression look". I've just scared that soemthing not working right in my new camera. Need a lot of learn...:)
 
damonb said:
The D90 is not an out of the box pristine video recording device. You need
to learn how to use the camera first. It takes work to get the best out of D90 video, but
it is time well spent. There are many different settings configurations within the camera that affect video image. In spite of the "it's not fully manual" talk, there are many, many adjustments that can be made to D90 video in camera.

You should not have "blocks" in your video under typical circumstances. What's the light level in your blocky video? What are you shooting? How are you shooting? What are your in camera settings?
Have you experimented with settings and explored the camera you have just bought? Have you
read the early posts on this thread? You and the previous poster need to be more patient and
get to know the great device you now own.
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I have to agree with Lcp, the amount of compression completely ruins the otherwise beautiful images it captures. this camera has been a great disappointment.
 
I have tried this method several times with my d5000 and I get a fast shutter speed almost every time. If I use an nd filter I get a good slow shutter speed but then how do I know how much iso is being put in?
 
I zoom all the way in on liveview and guestimate how grainy it looks.

I then continue to take the footage into the editing suite and grain the **** out of it some more, lol...
 
I'm new here, so hey guys!

Ooh, so many valuable tips here. Now I can mostly actually get footage without that ridiculous amount of noise. Man, I hate that noise. Nikon better release a replacement for D90. With 1080p and 60fps. I mean, Canon did it.

Anyway, thanks a bunch for all the tips here, peeps!

Also, Lammy, I never knew that you can zoom in while in Live View, haha! That is an awesome way of estimating that stupid noise. Thanks a lot, man!
 
Wait... god damn it, I'm usually quite good when it comes to that sort of stuff but I just can't figure it out quite correctly.

I have to lock/hold the AE-L *BEFORE* changing my aperture to f/5.6-8 (or something similar) and pointing at the white wall/space/whatever and eventually activating the LV mode? I mean, if the camera is already in AE-L, how come can it change the settings (aperture, iso, shutter, god knows what it's changing?) as the whole point of AE-L is to stop the camera from doing anything at all?

I've been trying to mess around like a lunatic with all kinds of different methods but I still keep getting that insane high-iso noise. It's making me mad! For instance, picture a local underground (or indoors) parking lot/hall, I absolutely CAN'T get any footage at all without noise. Or maybe I can, but it'd make no sense to shoot a totally black/dark scene, right? Even if there noise, I couldn't see it anyhow.

I have a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF D lens. I think this is what Kholl categorized (and actually may as well be categorized as such) Auto/Manual Aperture lens, as I do have the aperture ring but the camera can (and most obviously in LV is) control all of it.

So my question is. Am I doing something wrong, and totally missing the whole thing here. Or I'm not doing anything wrong, it's just my glass that is "incapabale" of bossing the D90 around?

Many thanks to whoever is willing to bring any clearness to it for me! :)
 
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