Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

I meant to do this earlier in the year but got derailed. Here is a video I took from my back deck and front porch, using a tripod and circular polarizing filter, with a FujiFinepix HS10 bridge camera. I got it used on ebay about 9 months ago. The camera has a 35mm equivalent focal length of 24mm to 720mm.

It's the first time I used it for video. The widest angle I could get on my Nikon D3100 with a manual Vivitar 19mm lens was 28.5mm (35 mm equivalent), so I tried out the Fujifinepix with the 24mm wide angle.

I was happy with the video quality on the Fujifiepix, but the in camera mic picked up too much noise from autofocusing and auto-aperture changes. For still pics, the camera can be set to manual, but in video mode it shoots 1920x1080, 60fps, with auto focusing and auto-aperture.

I spent about a half hour covering up the click noises on the audio track when I edited the video. In future I'll use an external sound recorder, sync the audio track to the camera audio track in the video editor, then mute the camera's audio track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUc32uS1tFU

Bob