Bamboopictures
Senior Member
With each passing year comes more and more choices for cameras and the accompanied assortment of lenses and gear.
The choice of what to invest your $$$ in will increasingly become more bewildering. One way to stay grounded is to think of the end results.
We all want more 'perfect' footage. The operative word can be either "more" or 'perfect' or both.
Let's start with 'more.'
For the editor, quantity itself is a form of quality. Quantity often means more choices. Conditions that favor quantity are:
-long shoots, ( the longer the day or the script, the more footage)
-locations that offers more interesting compositions and interesting subjects
-activities that generate more interesting moments
When those conditions are missing, our choice of equipment can compensate by increasing
- coverage - number of cameras used (B-cams, gopros, crashcams )
- nunber of set-ups and angles (faster deployment, movable lights, monopods, strong IBIS/ gimbals for handheld shooting)
- number of usable shots (absence of out of focused, under/over exposed, grainy, shaky footage, bad takes)
- duration of individual shots (sliders, gimbals can maintain longer audience interest between cuts)
Not only do we want 'more', we also want 'perfect' footage.
'Perfect' is simply the absence of faults. Again our choice of technology can help us eliminate faults.
Faults are subjectives but there are some consensus as to what are fatal flaws and what are just good-to-have.
Some faults can easily be fixed in post, others virtually impossible.
For example, the ultimate fault is 'no coverage' You simply missed the moment.
(camera takes too long to start-up, changing lens, or 30 minutes recording limit was up)
No camera can do everything, so it's important to choose a set of tools for the purpose of 'fault elimination'
For example, effective and accurate touch AF can reduce the occurene out-of-focused shots.
High ISO sensitivity can eliminate grain.
5 axis IBIS can eliminate shaky footage and increase the number of setups in a given timeframe
The right zoom range can eliminate lens change
LOG profile can preserve details in highlghts and shadows.
When resources are limited, choose the camera that will help you eliminate the faults you consider most serious.
Fault ranking is subjective but to keep things in perspective, have you heard anyone complain that a video was not shot in 4K, or that it was lacking bokeh?
Another resource allocation mistake is not investing enough in audio. Understandable because no one notices good audio but everyone will notice bad audio.
The choice of what to invest your $$$ in will increasingly become more bewildering. One way to stay grounded is to think of the end results.
We all want more 'perfect' footage. The operative word can be either "more" or 'perfect' or both.
Let's start with 'more.'
For the editor, quantity itself is a form of quality. Quantity often means more choices. Conditions that favor quantity are:
-long shoots, ( the longer the day or the script, the more footage)
-locations that offers more interesting compositions and interesting subjects
-activities that generate more interesting moments
When those conditions are missing, our choice of equipment can compensate by increasing
- coverage - number of cameras used (B-cams, gopros, crashcams )
- nunber of set-ups and angles (faster deployment, movable lights, monopods, strong IBIS/ gimbals for handheld shooting)
- number of usable shots (absence of out of focused, under/over exposed, grainy, shaky footage, bad takes)
- duration of individual shots (sliders, gimbals can maintain longer audience interest between cuts)
Not only do we want 'more', we also want 'perfect' footage.
'Perfect' is simply the absence of faults. Again our choice of technology can help us eliminate faults.
Faults are subjectives but there are some consensus as to what are fatal flaws and what are just good-to-have.
Some faults can easily be fixed in post, others virtually impossible.
For example, the ultimate fault is 'no coverage' You simply missed the moment.
(camera takes too long to start-up, changing lens, or 30 minutes recording limit was up)
No camera can do everything, so it's important to choose a set of tools for the purpose of 'fault elimination'
For example, effective and accurate touch AF can reduce the occurene out-of-focused shots.
High ISO sensitivity can eliminate grain.
5 axis IBIS can eliminate shaky footage and increase the number of setups in a given timeframe
The right zoom range can eliminate lens change
LOG profile can preserve details in highlghts and shadows.
When resources are limited, choose the camera that will help you eliminate the faults you consider most serious.
Fault ranking is subjective but to keep things in perspective, have you heard anyone complain that a video was not shot in 4K, or that it was lacking bokeh?
Another resource allocation mistake is not investing enough in audio. Understandable because no one notices good audio but everyone will notice bad audio.
