This is one of my favourite places in the nearby region that I tend to go to regularly, especially to test out new gear and gadgets. The place is beautiful and changes a lot during the seasons. You can see this place and the changes in some of my other videos. This time amids the powerful spring floods. Just a few days before even the road there was nearly flooded over. When the snow melts the fields and the rivers/streams flood. That is how it is here... As I said many times I use this place to test new things, but as I had the Magical places sound gear with me I thought that this place is clearly worth being in the Magical Places series. And I also wanted to test how the setup reacts to handling the camera and doing pans and tilts. So here it is.
As for the testing part I was foremost testing the Nikkor 80-200mm ED 2.8 D ("internal" focus) push and pull magic. So the whole video is shot from one place with the push and pull Nikkor wonder using the lenses range and also some digital zooming (in timelapse stills). I also was testing the Ulanzi u-190 video/hybrid head. The Nikkor I think is going to be one of my favourite lenses for a long time a head. I've been thinking of a 70-200 2.8 for a long time with added teleconverters, but they are really expensive and neither do I want the previous gen DSLR really heavy ones. The push and pull Nikkor have been in the back of my mind for a while. Escpecially the push and pull part for video shooting was intriquing. The push and pull magic is even more wonderful than I thought, but it is not easy. There is going to be a lot of practicing to get the results I want from it. And as most of my stuff this is also fully manual. That is also the point. You as a creator control both the zoom and the focus at the same time. As an one man show you can not zoom and focus with a dual system. You just can't. You don't have enough hands ;). Or perhaps for static shots, but as the point here was also to have the camera movement with the fluid head, so impossible with dedicated zoom and focus wheels. Of course nowadays you are beginning to have good autofocus, but you can't control the focus plane as you want while zooming, panning and tilting. And this is where you get the feeling from, but as I said I really need to practice this a lot as the lens isn't "parfocal". It's not bad and the feeling of it is really good, so I think it's going to work with some training. The lens has also some focus breathing, but not that much that it makes a difference for me at least. I had it here dummy adapted to my Panasonic Lumix s5. The lens is not that heavy, but as it does not have a lenscollar or a lens foot I did a sort of a rig for it to lessen the strain on the camera mount and adapter and it also gives some more stability. I also used a very cheap variable ND filter on it. So it is not straight the lenses quality here, but generally the lens is sharp and I also like the rendering a lot and this is the important part. Even with the really cheap ND for me the result are worth it. I also tested for the first time ever, I think, auto iso, as the light changed a lot escpecially during the big pan in the end. Shooting this at 4k 60p v-log. Auto is not for me. In manual if the results are bad only I am to blame and I can better things with auto you have to take it as it is... So all in all I'm really happy with the Nikkor 80-200mm ED 2.8 D. But there is still a lot of work to do to get the feel of the push and pull right... It is a great tool for creativity and for beautiful shots. As for the fluid head, I think it's wonderful for the money and the size. A negative is that you can't really control the drag, but this size, this price, this weight I rather have this than a 6 times heavier and bigger controllable fluid head... It is not perfect, but value for money is great, the handle could be longer or telescopic or something, it is way too short...
The same place in the fall:
• The Magic of the Nordi...
Check also out the other videos in Magical Places series:
• Magical places for you...
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Gear used:
Panasonic Lumix s5 (4k60p and time lapse)
with Nikkor 80-200mm ED 2.8 D
Zoom H6 (field recording 24bit/96khz)
Zoom MSH-6 (front mid-side raw)
2x Takstar CM-60 ("back" mics)
Software used:
Kdenlive (edit, color grading, mixing etc. etc.)
Darktable (time lapse images)
Ffmpeg (time lapse image processing)
Audacity (mid-side raw conversion)
Blender (3d graphics)
Inkscape (other graphics)
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