Confessing my stupidity!
Sep 17, 2022 07:40:51 #
AzPicLady wrote:
My stupidity was to assume that because the camera would automatically turn a still, that it could do the same in a video! Of course, I guess one must experiment in order to learn. Now I know.
Oh I can do vertical video if I want. The only thing is that when I show that on a TV it doesn't use the whole screen but it doesn't make the people laying down.
Sep 17, 2022 08:24:30 #
Like anything when using a camera it’s a learning experience. I bet next time you will not make the same mistake. 👍
Sep 17, 2022 08:47:22 #
Jeffcs
Loc: Myrtle Beach South Carolina
I think all of us that were photographers first before home video was readily available for home use made that dslr/mirrorless video mistake me included live and learn
Sep 17, 2022 08:53:30 #
Architect1776 wrote:
Too late for this experience (I did the same at a parade several years ago thinking it could be rotated) but I thought that there are programs that now allow that.
Also I thought I read that some mirrorless cameras can now do this.
Also I thought I read that some mirrorless cameras can now do this.
Good to know I'm not the only one!
Sep 17, 2022 08:55:19 #
Stephan G wrote:
Use a snippet of the Monkees for the intro, maybe?
Another idea, have the audience/viewer lay across a table in front of the screen.
Another idea, have the audience/viewer lay across a table in front of the screen.
I'll suggest that! Maybe they can watch it just before going to sleep?
Sep 17, 2022 08:56:31 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Oh I can do vertical video if I want. The only thing is that when I show that on a TV it doesn't use the whole screen but it doesn't make the people laying down.
Sep 17, 2022 08:56:53 #
NJFrank wrote:
Like anything when using a camera it’s a learning experience. I bet next time you will not make the same mistake. 👍
You are so right!
Sep 17, 2022 08:57:47 #
Jeffcs wrote:
I think all of us that were photographers first before home video was readily available for home use made that dslr/mirrorless video mistake me included live and learn
I always said I'd never do a video and didn't know why they included that costly feature in today's cameras. Never say never!
Sep 17, 2022 09:09:50 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Well, I learned something last night. Our art league had an artists' reception for a show currently hung at the Scottsdale Artists' School. I decided I would do a video of the show to post on our face book page. As the items were hung two-up, the show had a vertical look. So, my photo training said to take a vertical shot. Oops! Vertical in video doesn't work!
Word to those who haven't tried video before: Keep your camera horizontal even if the subject is vertical!
Word to those who haven't tried video before: Keep your camera horizontal even if the subject is vertical!
There is nothing wrong with learning. Everything will teach us until we become proficient. Confessing one’s mistakes is a way to improve our skill.
When G-D is finished with me, I’ll let you know.
And thanks for the head’s up.
Sep 17, 2022 09:10:41 #
Scruples wrote:
There is nothing wrong with learning. Everything will teach us until we become proficient. Confessing one’s mistakes is a way to improve our skill.
When G-D is finished with me, I’ll let you know.
And thanks for the head’s up.
When G-D is finished with me, I’ll let you know.
And thanks for the head’s up.
Amen. And you're welcome.
Sep 17, 2022 10:14:58 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Well, I learned something last night. Our art league had an artists' reception for a show currently hung at the Scottsdale Artists' School. I decided I would do a video of the show to post on our face book page. As the items were hung two-up, the show had a vertical look. So, my photo training said to take a vertical shot. Oops! Vertical in video doesn't work!
Word to those who haven't tried video before: Keep your camera horizontal even if the subject is vertical!
Word to those who haven't tried video before: Keep your camera horizontal even if the subject is vertical!
Please don't feel bad . . .
I was feeling nostalgic a few days ago and reviewed some of my older digital pics from 2003, 4, 5, etc.
Yes, it has been a REAL Steep learning curve, LOL.
Mostly they made me . . . .
Smile,
JimmyT Sends
Sep 17, 2022 10:34:09 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I always said I'd never do a video and didn't know why they included that costly feature in today's cameras. Never say never!
Video is not a *costly* feature. It is found in most still cameras. It is the reason the digital camera exists in its modern form. Without the video market, still cameras would be ten years behind. Even the little Canon point-and-shoot cameras I bought my twins in 2007 recorded SD video, for $87.00! They used them for fourth grade class projects they edited in iMovie. (Dad helped with sound.) They were part of the "iCarly" generation. (That was a teen show by Nickelodeon started in 2007. The twins watched it a LOT.)
The quest for digital, high-definition TV dates back to experiments of the late 1960s. By the early '80s, we had digital standard definition TV cameras, and after Kodak contributed a lot of good technology in the 1990s, it all snowballed.
The still camera sensor is really a video device that works for both stills and video. So video in a still camera is a "We might as well include it..." Panasonic and Sony have carried it to logical mirrorless conclusions. Canon and Nikon have done so too, but started with dSLRs. The only major digital still camera made after 2012 that I know of *without video* is the Nikon Df, which was ridiculously expensive.
Video evolved from a kludge of the motion picture film industry and TV broadcasting. Still photography evolved on its own. The language and terminologies are somewhat parallel, but different. Merging them into a still camera form factor has been helpful in many ways, but confusing to both camps of "purists" — at least, at first. These days, many of us have assimilated it all and just use it.
Sep 17, 2022 10:41:41 #
burkphoto wrote:
Video is not a *costly* feature. It is found in mo... (show quote)
Video is not expensive. Without video is expensive. You may ask why? Well it cost very little to add the video features so without it you only save a very small amount of money in the production run however, such a model will sell in very small quantity and you would have to increase the selling price to recoup the development and tooling cost.
Sep 17, 2022 12:42:01 #
Jimmy T wrote:
Please don't feel bad . . . br I was feeling nost... (show quote)
Thanks. You learn something every day. Otherwise, your brain cells die!
Sep 17, 2022 12:42:54 #
burkphoto wrote:
Video is not a *costly* feature. It is found in mo... (show quote)
I would trade video capability for eye-controlled focus any day!!!!!
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