Tony's Handheld Long Lens Zoo Trip Failure Montage
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2021
- I took an about an hour at the zoo shooting a 100-400 lens handheld for video. All shots in 24p at 1/50. I kind of hated it. Not recommended.
Gear Used |
Sony a7riii, slog2, sGamut3.cine, s35 mode
Sigma 100-400 f5-6.3
SLR Magic VNDii
SLG Magic IE Pro
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Wow, great job! It's looking great. Active stabilisation is a useful feature for handled shots like this. A monopod/tripod would be useful as well.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I had OIS on with my lens but it was pretty difficult still to get shots without jitters. I ended up adding more stabilization in post and motion blur for those jittery OIS moments.
How tha f*** is this handheld footage so stable ? Do the camera and lens have image stabilization? With my bmpcc I struggle a lot with the shakiness even though I use a Canon 24-105 with IS. After some minutes my arms start acting crazy with fatigue. Your footage actually looks very good!!!
Thank you, I appreciate that.
There is a lot of footage I didn't cut in because either I or the OIS had a hard time settling without some rocky dips when I followed action or tried to hold steady. Some of the problems are visible as micro jitters and bumps here or there but I attempted to mitigate that in post where possible. To my knowledge, IBIS does not work in conjunction with the longer lenses on the Sony. It was especially hard considering I shot 24p and not 60p which likely would have provided smoother images, but I wanted the max quality file since the camera I used has junk 60p.
What I did was turn OIS mode 1 on, which is intended for steady (instead of lateral movement) shooting with the Sigma 100-400. When possible I rested my arms on a rail, but I could not most of the time. I also kept the camera up to my eye with the viewfinder to create a third point of contact, elbows kept at a narrow angle for added stability.
In post I added image stabilization in resolve with the default "translation" setting. This generally fixes the worst movement, but won't fix the jitters you will notice as a result from the lens getting knocked around. I also added, in the noise reduction node at the head of the pipeline, a tiny bit of motion blur to help mitigate the distracting micro jitters when they did occur.
Do you bring up a white balance card with you?
On paid shoots I do. For this I was lazy and in a rush since the park was closing. Just shot in the daylight or cloudy WB then adjusted for visible whites/grays in post where I could.