Anthony Reilly
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Hi everyone, Just curious as to find out abit about this camera, I would lie to know if you can zoom while your videoing and if not is there a camera that can actually do that ?
Thanks Ant
Thanks Ant
Antony… this belongs here: http://www.openphotographyforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=31Hi everyone, Just curious as to find out abit about this camera, I would lie to know if you can zoom while your videoing and if not is there a camera that can actually do that ?
Thanks Ant
Hi everyone, Just curious as to find out abit about this camera, I would lie to know if you can zoom while your videoing and if not is there a camera that can actually do that ?
Thanks Ant
-> Asher: Pulling focus is about maintaining correct focus of e.g. a moving actor, not about changing focal length of the lens used.
Anthony,
Sorry for the late reply, you can zoom with any dedicated consumer or prosumer camera, as they all have zoom lenses built in. Most often they will hold their focus as you zoom. For critical work, many photographers use DSLR's with fixed focus and pull focus for that lens as the rig is moved closer to the subject.
More expensive options will allow attachment of many zoom lenses. Agains the focus has to be right when zoomed and it might need adjusting.
I'd not consider using any zoom for a video unless I tried it in the store and brought the SD or CF card home and looked at the results. Choosing a small camera for video means that you actually want to do better than your iPhone and that is already great! So I'd skip the digicam if you can and go to any small DSLR with image stabilization. All will zoom and retain reasonable focus.
Asher
This is why manual focus lenses are used when shooting video with DSLRs (focus pulling again) and when you have to zoom, a parfocal zoom lens stays focused when you zoom and the object does not move.Hi asher i already have a DSLR but if i video record i have to turn it to camera mode, focus it then change to video mode but once its in video mode if i zoom in you can't focus it
This is why manual focus lenses are used when shooting video with DSLRs (focus pulling again) and when you have to zoom, a parfocal zoom lens stays focused when you zoom and the object does not move.
Still, apart from the zooming question you haven't been very specific on the desired application. More information would possibly have a positive impact on the quality of the answers for you
Best regards,
Michael
So you want the camera to lock on focus on the birds and even if they move closer or further away, you want them tracked and kept in focus, is that right? Are you really talking birds or a bird? With a group of birds that could be dicey.With my DSLR you can't manual focus once in video mode, and all I am after is something that will stay in focus as I am videoing something moving like flying birds ect ect..
So you want the camera to lock on focus on the birds and even if they move closer or further away, you want them tracked and kept in focus, is that right? Are you really talking birds or a bird? With a group of birds that could be dicey.
...and you wish to be able to zoom in if that so happen to be your creative urge?
Asher