pedz
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Coming up to speed (again) on the R5C
2 months ago
This post is somewhat embarrassing for me to write. I am fortunate enough to be able to buy fantastic equipment but due to various things, I don't get to play with it very often. I've had my Canon EOS R5C almost a year now. When I first got it, I read and studied and got comfortable with it. But it has now been probably 6 to 8 months since I've played with it and I am now feeling the same anxiety of the unknown that I felt when I first got it.
Video, to me, is confusing and daunting -- mostly because I just don't spend enough time with it to get to a comfort level that stays with me. In still photography, I'm happy picking up my camera after long periods. I will have forgotten some things but they gently return to me as I take shots and notice my mistakes. Video, for whatever reason, causes a lot of fears to come up. I guess... this is because with a still photo, if it is "bad", you just take it again. But with video, by the time I get to a finished product, I will have spent at least 15 minutes to several hours mucking with it. The mistakes seem much more costly.
In any case... I'm wondering if other folks have similar problems / fears / anxieties and if so, do you have remedies? For example, a particular YouTube video that you go to to refresh your memory. In the past, I've starting taking notes but I seem to have failed to do that in this case.
The biggest source of my anxiety is picking the format. Do I want to use RAW? Do I want this or that color profile? etc. It might seem silly. "Just go out and take videos" ... but I get stuck and I'm not 100% sure why.
Canon EOS R5
Venus Laowa 100mm F2.8 Macro
Canon RF 35mm F1.8 IS STM Macro
Canon RF 24-105mm F4L IS USM
Canon RF 24-240mm F4-6.3
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