Torquay to Dawlish Airshow - First Video

[sprocker]

The weather forecast for Saturday was excellent, so we had a trip around the coast to Dawlish Airshow.

I've been wanting to try rigging up my old Veho Muvi video camera to the boat for ages to see how it would work.

Along with my first efforts at using MS Movie Maker here are the results.......critiques very welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHPUZPDYgQE&feature=youtube_gdata

[mark101]

Very good Sprocker, great stills too


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[Ianfs]

Excellent well done. Looks like a great day.

The still shots were great, with my standard zoom 18-55 I can't usually get that accurate, what's your set up?

[sprocker]

Thanks guys, it was a superb day, until around 4pm when the weather closed in quickly causing the Red Arrows to cancel, we had a fairly wet & bumpy ride back around the coast to Torquay, but unlike all the open boats there we have a nice warm dry pilot house to shelter in.

The video camera is a cheap Veho Muvi with waterproof case that I used to use when kayak fishing. I have Scotty rod holders on my boat so bought a Scotty camera adapter for it.

The stills are taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ200. A brilliant camera for the money, with a zoom equivalent of 600mm and F2.8 right out at max zoom!
A lot of camera for around £250.

[Ianfs]

I've got a Nikon 5300 DSLR and your camera seems to do everything mine does and more, including Raw shooting, that zoom is awesome and its about half the price. It even has the same swivel screen, which is great for shots in crowds over heads or filming video at different angles.

[sprocker]

I had a Nikon D200 DSLR for many years, along with a Nikon 18-200mm lens and a Sigma 150-500mm lens. Fantastic cameras but very bulky and heavy with the large lenses on.

I made a decision last year to lighten things up a bit so I sold all my SLR kit and bought the Panasonic Lumix. So far the little Lumix has done everything that the Nikon did. (Apart from make my shoulder ache!). One upside of all that is that I take it everywhere with me now, as its so much easier to carry around.

[Ianfs]

Funny you should speak about bulk, those big lenses are very bulky.

I wanted to buy something similar to my sons D600 but really was not fully competent to use all the gizmos/facilities and in fact asked myself, did I really want to. Consequently I thought I was doing the right thing in buying the 5300, with more pixels than the 3200 at 24m pixels same as the 600 but with a smaller sensor, still a CMOS though. Don't get me wrong its a great camera, but as you have said, it is bulky and not a point and shoot.

[sprocker]

The only thing I really find a bit of a limitation is the viewfinder. With it being electronic you do get a little time lag whilst the frame is written to the SD card. Although this is only really an issue if you are zoomed right in on a fast moving object ( such as the Red Arrows) as I found out on Wednesday evening.
By the time the viewfinder becomes live again the jets are long gone and you have to zoom out to find them.

Not a major issue for day to day photographs though.

[Ianfs]

I see, so if you are zoomed in on something using the viewfinder and shoot, there's a delay before you can see the next shot.
Are you able to use the screen for shooting?

[sprocker]

Yes, either the screen or viewfinder. I prefer using the viewfinder purely because that is what I'm used to.

I may see if I can find an SD card with a faster write speed to see if it will reduce the lag. It's not a major problem, and certainly wouldn't put me off buying the camera.