Jonathan Oliff at Ballito
Dane Forman photo

posted by danus on Wednesday, 7 June 2006

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	Dane Forman 11th June 2006 12:51
	shot 4 that peter! iv been shooting pretty much everyday this week so far. gettin a couple of good ones. got my new housing sorted-EVENTUALLY!!! so thats been a stoke. iv bin havin a bit of crap with blur/focus issues with these new sony HD cams. cant seem to handle clarity when theres a lil movement. neway working my way around it. hey cant wait for the release of your vid-from the sneak peeks we saw in margate it looks INSANE!!! cool cool buddy....i never knew one frame could spark so many 6000 word comments. hehe

	Peter Lambert 9th June 2006 14:46
	Kely, the fact that you have even heard of the word interlacing, let alone have a concept of it means that you know more the other 99% of people.... (i.e. a little knowledge is better than no knowledge) P.S. I was luck enough to meet Dane up in margate... The guy shoots such sick stuff... (and isn't to bad on a boogie either) What a legend.

	Kelly Footit 9th June 2006 13:11
	Cheers Peter. Ja - did a little bit of reading up on it some time back but you guys are the gurus. Thanks for clarifying!!! How's the saying go ... a little bit of knowledge is dangerous!!! We should get you guys to put together a tips for shooting video article. (once LOF is out and you've had some sleep though!)

	Peter Lambert 9th June 2006 11:31
	Hi Kelly, I just want to amend what you have just stated... There are several factors that contribute to a frame grab looking good.... firstly, you need to have your subject in focus (love stating the obvious), then secondly, any good frame grab needs to be de-interlaced which is done in an editing package, otherwise it will look super-poo. This grab does look de-interlaced. Thirdly, and the issue here regarding the slight blur, this is normally caused by too slow a shutter speed which you are able to set on even cheap cameras... this blur is desirable in video to make your video motion look smooth, but is not desirable for a good grab, so there are always compromises.... a video camera will by default try and use a shutter speed of 1/50th of a second, but if you want to have a chance of a good grab, but still want fairly smooth video, I suggest trying 1/250 of a second. This won't stop the action, but if you are steady it will look a lot better... When you start using shutter speeds that are too high, video looks choppy, even though the frames are crisp, hence if you want your video to look bad, but your frames to look really sharp, you could use 1/2000 of a second or higher. What is really important to note is that a R3000 still camera will take much much better still images than photos or frame grabs that come off a R20 000 video camera, so get a camera for stills and a video camera for video.... But at least, now, if you have the wrong tool for the job, you know how to use it and make it look good. Hope this helps!

	Kelly Footit 8th June 2006 13:07
	I think Dane is shooting video ... which I'm sure you understand then. For anyone else - most video cameras shoot interlaced frames meaning when you try get a frame grab you never get a clean frame --- one frame is always interlaced with the next and for any high motion shooting you do get the blurred effect. You can get video cameras which don't do this but they are not the norm. Anyone thinking about getting a high end video camera should at least consider this in my opinion.

	Lee Slabber 8th June 2006 12:03
	Slightly slow s/s but I dig the shot.