Sean Nelson

Bear in mind that despite all of the technical mumbo-jumbo, the single most important rule for audio is to get the microphone as close as possible to the subject. A mediocre mic right next to the ...

Possibility 3:  You're not fully appreciative of the limitations of 24fps.  Fast motion is never going to look truly smooth at that frame rate.  Professional productions carefully stage movement ...

That's my guess as to his issue. The answer is that you need to ease the viewfinder up instead of just letting it jump up and hit the limiting stop.  You don't have to be super gentle, just put ...

Not that I'm aware of.  All of the reviews I've seen evaluate rigs with pretty wide lenses - I've never seen one that shows what the results look like with a long telephotos. I actually think that ...

I think he might be asking why 35mm film doesn't use the square aspect ratio. The answer is that  in the days when 120 film cameras were introduced they used a waist-level viewfinder.  This is ...

Depending on how you plan to view or distribute your production you might want to just stick with exporting to 60p.   Pretty much all modern consumer equipment can deal with it just fine.

A lot of these consumer rigs work great for wide to normal use but just aren't accurate enough for long telephoto work.   So it's not just a question of being able to support enough mass. It may ...

Hence the OP's original question - how often does DJI refresh?   It's probably not worth waiting a year, but if a new version drops in a few months it might well be worth the wait.

Good luck with that.   Trying to get stable video from a long telephoto on a moving platform is the absolute worst case scenario.  I'm not aware of any decent solution that's consumer priced - if ...

I can't speak for HeavyDuty, but I'd sure like to see a version of with a bottom tripod socket and the USB port coming out the side of the base instead of the bottom.  I know that there are ...

If the lighting conditions are what I imagine them to be based on what I'm seeing then I'm very impressed with the low light performance!

Still kickin'! Thanks! I took it several years ago and so far I've been unable to capture a better crescent moon...

I gotta admit that I'm kind of exasperated with all this moon nomenclature that suddenly seems to have become a fad. We used to have "Harvest Moon", "Hunter's Moon" and "Blue Moon", but now ...

OK, I'm a Panasonic guy butting my nose in here with one of my favourite GH5 features.   I have no idea if the Olympus cameras have this but I think it's such a brilliant idea that I'm going to ...

This is why you should do backups on a regular (hopefully daily) basis, in case your files go bad - not because they go bad.

The benefit of the Pro Version's ability to turn off automatic updates is that you can schedule the updates for when you want, as opposed to them dropping on you unexpectedly like a ton of ...

One of my cameras has dual slots and I've never used the second one.  Just more management hassle and opportunities to do the wrong thing with the wrong card.

Yep, the 80/20 rule applies here.  Most of your files are not accessed all that often and don't need to be on fast media.  Only a small percentage of them actually benefit from high performance.

A good backup strategy is the best way to avoid these kinds of issues.

I think you could probably do this with two timelapses of the house and sign, one with the "fresh" sign and one with the sign treated to look rusty.    Put the first timelapse onto your editor's ...