Digital Cameras Viewfinders
11-08-2018, 01:04 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Digital Cameras Viewfinders
So many videos on You Tube, etc. are hard to watch due to tiny model plane image jiggling, going out of frame or going in and out of focus. Using a telephoto setting exaggerates hand jiggling and loss of image. Most camcorders have a small LCD viewfinder screen that is almost useless in sunlight, a few have an optical viewfinder that works better in sunlight. Image stabilization helps. Helmet cams should be outlawed.
Go over the following with your camera person and make sure that they understand it before taking off:
1. Set focus manually for about 100 feet, don't use autofocus or telephoto settings. Model will be in focus from 50 feet to 150+ feet
2. Look through viewfinder with your right eye, look past the camera with your left eye to help keep model in the frame. Practice watching other models this way to see how this works.
3. Don't press record button when model is just a speck in the sky.
4.Have pilot keep model within 75 feet of camera as much as possible and fly by slowly when you are recording.
5. If you must use a cell phone to take a video, turn it horizontally
6.Don't record while walking.
Go over the following with your camera person and make sure that they understand it before taking off:
1. Set focus manually for about 100 feet, don't use autofocus or telephoto settings. Model will be in focus from 50 feet to 150+ feet
2. Look through viewfinder with your right eye, look past the camera with your left eye to help keep model in the frame. Practice watching other models this way to see how this works.
3. Don't press record button when model is just a speck in the sky.
4.Have pilot keep model within 75 feet of camera as much as possible and fly by slowly when you are recording.
5. If you must use a cell phone to take a video, turn it horizontally
6.Don't record while walking.
11-28-2018, 10:23 PM
#2
Originally Posted by E-Challenged
So many videos on You Tube, etc. are hard to watch due to tiny model plane image jiggling, going out of frame or going in and out of focus. Using a telephoto setting exaggerates hand jiggling and loss of image. Most camcorders have a small LCD viewfinder screen that is almost useless in sunlight, a few have an optical viewfinder that works better in sunlight. Image stabilization helps. Helmet cams should be outlawed.
Go over the following with your camera person and make sure that they understand it before taking off:
1. Set focus manually for about 100 feet, don't use autofocus or telephoto settings. Model will be in focus from 50 feet to 150+ feet
2. Look through viewfinder with your right eye, look past the camera with your left eye to help keep model in the frame. Practice watching other models this way to see how this works.
3. Don't press record button when model is just a speck in the sky.
4.Have pilot keep model within 75 feet of camera as much as possible and fly by slowly when you are recording.
5. If you must use a cell phone to take a video, turn it horizontally
6.Don't record while walking.
Go over the following with your camera person and make sure that they understand it before taking off:
1. Set focus manually for about 100 feet, don't use autofocus or telephoto settings. Model will be in focus from 50 feet to 150+ feet
2. Look through viewfinder with your right eye, look past the camera with your left eye to help keep model in the frame. Practice watching other models this way to see how this works.
3. Don't press record button when model is just a speck in the sky.
4.Have pilot keep model within 75 feet of camera as much as possible and fly by slowly when you are recording.
5. If you must use a cell phone to take a video, turn it horizontally
6.Don't record while walking.
The number "5" is must for the whole world not just for R/C people. Kinda annoying to see someone do that mistake on youtube.
03-16-2019, 05:18 AM
#3
Good advice but you are wasting your breath. Photography is just too complicated for most people, too many variables require too much knowledge and too much time for the avearage person to grasp. Just too much trouble. Sort of like a lot of things folks are too busy to understand and explore. Like building airplanes!
