Posts Tagged ‘camera’
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Today’s goals were to test some mountain bike set-ups and remote flash set-ups. I am hoping to put in a good display at the MTB world champs in September with both stills and video snippets.
VIDEO TESTS
The main test here was sound. I am using the JCV 3CCD HD camcorder because of its compact size, but the on board sound is none too crash hot. I’ve made a lead that goes from the 3.5mm stereo jack to 2 x XLR connectors. These are attached to RODE M3 9Volt Powered Microphones. I wanted external sound and to exaggerate the stereo affect by spacing the mics well apart.
The first example is with runners….
Then MTB’ers….the set-up is at the end of this one.
FLASH TESTS
I’ve still got quite a bit of work to do on this, but getting there. My main problem is the lighting and location. Full sun is not too good, full shade or heavily backlit are good, but you need to get a location of the course that has these conditions, and a descent spot.
The Dual flash is working well. Shot most of today at 1/1000 sec and f5.6. The PocketWizards work really well with the high speed sync. Hypersync is ok from 1/400 – 1/800, but over that it’s not all that good.
Heres a video of the last setup I tried….
Tags: camera, Canon, ETTL, fill, Flash, Mountain, Mountain Bike, MTB, photography, photos, pocketwizard, Ratio, remote, setup, ST-E2, strobe, test, wizard
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Some time ago I changed my beam cross trigger to 9 Volt to make batteries easier to get. However, I had no idea how long the system would work on such a small battery. The 12 Volt system would run for days, but it’s not so easy to get 12 V batteries when you travel.
The test in the video was to see how many switches you would get from a 9 Volt battery. I had tested “static” life at 5 1/2 hours, but I didn’t know if triggering would have a bearing on the battery life…….seems not. Check the Video.
I am guessing over 500,000 triggers will do fine. I hope to give the trigger a run at an event this weekend. We’ll see how it goes in the field.
Tags: 9, battery, Beam, bench, camera, demo, laser, pocket, remote, switch, test, trigger, Trip, Video, volt, Wire, wizard
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Last weekend saw me shooting a triathlon festival in Forster NSW. My client was after a large amount of shots, but had a limited budget. Time for the remotes!!!!
The idea was to have 2 shooters and 4 cameras. Each shooter (Me or Murray) would shoot a main shot and have a differing images shot at the same time.
Murray and his Remote
Murray’s shots
Me and my Remote
My shots
We’re getting there. There is quite and art to getting the remote camera’s framing, focus and metering perfect, when you set the cameras at 5:30am. I’m pretty happy with these and I know they’ll keep getting better.
Tags: , angles, camera, Course, finish, Forster, Gantry, line, Long, mount, multiple, Multisport, Murray, remote, schute, Triathlon, Wilkinson
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
I was off shooting the DirtWorks 100 for cycle-photos.com. It was a good weekend away with the boys and some ambitious shooting set-ups with remote cameras and remote flashes. Results were varied, but generally great!!
First Location was shot with 70-200 and a remote flash. Flash was in a tree about 1M from the shoot spot so it was only running at 1/128th power and zoomed at 35mm. The result from this was Great!!!
The second shot in this location was from a wide lens placed low with a remote flash. The problems with this were focus and shooting above the 1/250th sync speed of the cameras. We wanted to shoot at 1/400th minimum, so there would be some shutter blockage here and there. Most of the problems were focus. I focussed on the track where the riders were, then switched to manual focus, but they all appeared back-focussed. Something to work on for next time I guess.
I think next time if we swap these around, so the long shot is from a remote camera location and the wide is from the human it might work better. Other problems with the 580s powering off I have fixed now (C-Fn-14=1). I’ll try to give this a go before we head out again somewhere.
Tags: 100, camera, DirtWorks, images, Mountain Bike, photos, remote, Sport, Video
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
In an effort to get deeper into commercial photography, I have bought a 2nd hand 1Ds Mark 2 off eBay. The camera’s full sensor and 16.7 MegaPixel lakes it ideas for large super high quality prints.
Info from dpreview : The EOS-1Ds Mark II is the sixteen (point seven) megapixel successor to the EOS-1Ds which was announced almost exactly two years earlier. Carrying on from the EOS-1Ds the Mark II has a full size 35 mm (36 x 24 mm) sensor which means it introduces no field-of-view crop, an 18 mm lens on this camera will provide exactly the same field-of-view as it would on a 35 mm film camera. At first glance it’s clear to see that Canon has stuck (as they did with the EOS-1D Mark II) with the same body and control layout. The timing of the EOS-1Ds Mark II’s announcement was interesting if not totally surprising coming just five days after Nikon announced the twelve (point four) megapixel D2X, the megapixel one-up-man-ship continues.
Despite the significant jump in resolution from the EOS-1Ds (11 mp) to the EOS-1Ds Mark II (16.7 mp) the camera maintains an impressive four frames per second shooting rate and a buffer large enough for 32 JPEG or 11 RAW images. The EOS-1Ds Mark II’s internal bus throughput of approximately 67 megapixel/sec is virtually identical to the eight megapixel EOS-1D Mark II.
Tags: 1Ds, 2, camera, Canon, hardware, II, Mark, MK
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