Monday 31 December 2012

Pop Goes the Video


This morning I had a play with the video facilities in the Nikon S9050. Last night I had a browse through the owners manual - all 200 pages of it! For a camera which cost me less than £100 it has a whole host of facilities. As I thought, the colour 'popping' facility works on video as well as stills. There are quite a few choices for video quality and speed. I set it to 720p 16:9 for normal video (it will go better but for YouTube I keep the file sizes down) There is also the facility for high speed video, in effect that is slow motion when watched.

This is normal wide screen 720p starting in full colour and then popped red. Colour cannot be changed while videoing so you have to stop, change and then start again. That only takes a couple of seconds. The camera has a 15x optical zoom. As I was using all of that the camera was fixed on a tripod in the kitchen.





The next video was shot at 4x speed. The higher the frame rate, the smaller the picture. At this speed the video is 640x480. There is an 8x speed with a video size of 320x240.
Although the video subject is clear I was disappointed that it came out very dark and needed a lot of tweaking to see what was going on. For high speed filming the camera only shoots 10 seconds and then automatically reverts to normal speed. No sound is recorded.




11 comments:

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    1. You know me Roy - always trying some new or different idea.

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  2. It is a brilliant box of tricks.. An ND Grad costs a lot more than that.

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    1. PS. Does it do Macro?....don't worry I'll have a look... Harrison Cameras...may have to chuck one in....I've just had to order a gimballed head....Thought I might.

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    2. Yes Adrian, it does macro. Haven't found bracketing shots for HD though. That may be missing. It also has some panorama facilities. Really excellent facilities for a pocket camera, assuming they all work OK.
      Tomorow I must try out the b/w shooting, if the weather co-operates.

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  3. Technology has leapt on; and left me behind a bit. lol
    Interesting results though.

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    1. It can get very frustrating Keith, learning the ins and out of modern cameras.

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  4. the slow motion is interesting, but yes, limited. cool that video can do the color pop, too.

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    1. I may need to adjust (tinker with) the settings for slow motion TWG.

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  5. Did you read all 200 pages!! I'm impressed.. I often can't get beyond the contents page. ;)

    Happy New Year to you John and a 'wild' 2013...

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    1. Read all 200 no - look at, yes. I only read the bits I needed at that time.

      Best wishes to you also, the 'wilder' the better ;)

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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