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Panasonic G6 for video

Started Feb 26, 2015 | Discussions thread
alcelc
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Re: Panasonic G6 for video
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Greenbeanz wrote:

I am going to be using my G6 at the weekend in a black curtained room with a few lights high up on a rig to film somebody dancing. The dancer will move in his wheelchair and on the floor. I will probably supplement the G6 with a couple camcorders, on tripods at the back corners of the room, for wide shots to cut to. I have an old Helios lens (44-2 58mm) and an OLY 45mm 1.8 and a Panasonic 14mm, but will probably use the Panasonic 25mm 1.4 on the G6. I am thinking that 1080 60p mp4 will give me the most options when it comes to editing, as i will need to change the speed quite a lot to give the disabled dancers movements a smoother arc when moving between shots or repeating movements in the edit.

What is the simplest way to keep my focus on him as he moves? Should I use manual and set the aperture to keep a DOF where he is always in focus ? Or should I chose AFS,AFF or AFC...

Just a casual video shooter for my travelling. However, for GX1 and GF3, I just put AF-continuous ON and so far the AF of my lenses (14-45, 14-42 MI, 14-42PZ, 7-14, 14-140 MII, 45-200, 14) are all managed to catch focus of moving subject very fast (even running). It would make life easier than MF.

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