Thank you for your comments.

The shots were made under varying conditions, but in general I was shooting at ISO 400. The camera provides a simple meter to help with exposure and I exposed the video the same way I would stills. I used the camera’s assistance for auto focus and then fine tuned things myself. For these shots I was shooting as wide open as possible and then stopped down a 1/3 to compensate for any softness introduced by teleconverters. I was aiming for shutter speeds in excess of 1/500th of a second.

I hope that helps.

Excellent. I know you’re using the firmware that allows for manual adjustment to the exposure, shutter, and focus. Can you walk us through that process? How much help does the camera give you.

I used to edit a lot of television news video. Those jitters at the start of the shot are called “rough edges”. You should be able to edit your “in” point just beyond the slight camera movement.

Thanks again for the posts.

I’ve since purchased myself a remote release so I won’t have those jitters at the beginning of shots.

Thanks,

Paul

A little bit of shaking at the beginning of few takes but I just can imagine how things could be shaky at such extreme focal length. Nice to see locked-down shots since camera movement migth be impossible with your head (and frankly even with a proprer video head it would be hard at such magnification ratio).

Nice editing, simple and clean. The rythm could be a bit faster but I understand you want a show as much footage as you can (since the images are really beautyfull).

You should continue to go crazy