Question regarding the Zoom H5

Sean Nelson wrote:

JWAR1976 wrote:

..am I able to record say a couple of songs from a band with video, but have audio recorded of the entire performance while I am taking photos, while the H5 is still connected to the camera ?.

You can, as long as you know ahead of time that you're not going to have to leave for some reason (to use the restroom, for example). But it would require you to record on the H5 itself rather then feeding it into the camera for recording. It's no problem to do that, it just means you have to synchronize the audio track when you edit the video, not a big deal.

But, I'd suggest that it's better to record everything on the H5 itself and set it up near the band so that you're free to do whatever the heck you want. Ideally, you'd be able to get an audio feed from the band's sound board and run it directly into the H5, but failing that some place near the stage that you can let it sit where it won't be bumped would probably work too.

Keeping the H5 off the camera means that it won't record bumps or crowd noises close to the camera, and it would give you a lot more freedom and peace of mind while you're shooting other things.

If you've got a second camera it would be well worth setting it up on a tripod and let it run record the whole band while you move around with your handheld camera to get different angles and closeups of the performers. That would let you create a much more interesting video at the editing stage.

Sean said everything much better than I could.

The only thing I would add is that using the 8K resolution on the R5 will allow you to "punch in" to a tighter framing when you edit (or do a slow zoom in) if you will be delivering your video in a lower resolution, like 4k or even 1080p.

I don't know anything about the ability to record 8K on the R5 though so there might be usability issues of which I am not familiar (and you might need a pretty beefy computer and LOTS of hard drive space to handle 8K footage).

Personally, ideally, I would use a second or third camera AND record in the highest resolution I could in order to re-frame the shot in post. But it also would depend on how much time I am able to put in to the project.