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NO NDs and NO 180°-shutter-rule for scenic landscape videography?!

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Chiemsee Junior Member • Posts: 28
NO NDs and NO 180°-shutter-rule for scenic landscape videography?!

Hello forum! I'd be interested what you think about the following arguments...

For a side-project I plan many short scenic landscape takes at different locations over the next months or years.

Mostly from tripod (sometimes slow pans); mostly (U)wide angle; only few slider/gimball takes; probably using current cam: Lumix S5.

Doing some tests and thinking a lot about optimal settings, I came to the following (temporary) decision: No NDs and not following the 180-degree-shutter-rule. Arguments:

  1. No actors => "cinematic look" probably not relevant here
  2. Not much movement (mostly waves, wind movement, small people in background)
  3. If pans at all, they will be slow
  4. (Slightly) higher image quality without filters
  5. Bonus option to use single frames as low-res photos
  6. Faster working, especially with the many short takes: No need to adjust NDs each time
  7. I heard several times, that software is getting better and better to heal "chopy look" of "non-180-degree-footage" in post, especially when the culprit was a camera-pan.

=> Current plan: No NDs due to the reasons above, but 60fps to further minimize the risk of "choppy look" [though 60fps only allows 4:4:0 10-bit instead of 4:4:2 10-bit @30fps].

There are a lot of opinions floating around the web concerning the 180-degree-shutter-rule... But it seems, they implicitly mainly focus on the genre of movies/short-films and in differentiation to 'soap opera'/journalistic reportage style. Pure landscape videography isn't addressed a lot, it seems.

What's your experience or opinion? Do you think, my arguments above are valid or BS? ^^ Thanks for answer!

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