I wondered why this video is so shaky. Hard to analyze what you’re looking at when it jumps around the screen.
So I asked a guy with 30 pro years in film. He said:
“He is filming from a distance, zooming all the way in with his zoom lens, so the slightest operator movement will show up as a shaky, drifting frame.
“He doesn’t have a good heavy tripod, but one that he fights against in an effort at steadiness.
“Even with a crappy tripod, he could frame his shot, tighten the pan and tilt locking mechanisms and then not touch the tripod at all, yielding a static shot. I don’t know why he does not do this. It is in defiance of plain common sense. It makes me question his whole project, his entire set of claims and objectives.
“He should use an even longer, more telephoto lens…
“Once he is pointed at what he wants, he should lock his tripod and leave it alone!”
I hadn’t mentioned that it makes me question the same, so my guy’s spontaneous opinion corroborates my own.
Why go to all that trouble if you’re not going to do all you can to get clear shots?
In the video, he says that he left his night vision rig on the tripod from the night before. He was handheld because he didn’t want to risk missing the thing.
Some of the video of the daytime object is very steady.
“It makes me question his whole project, his entire set of claims and objectives.”
haha Good for you.
How about you set about trying to get more impressive video about what goes on at that place and post it.
I wonder why my pro assumes a tripod when the guy says he left his at home?
I don’t do camera work. The pro is in the East with wife and kids and fulltime job, so can’t venture off to the West. Plus, he doesn’t sound interested in this kind of thing.
“My tripod still had the night vision and spotting scope set up attached to it for my night viewing the night before. So I quickly grabbed my camera and shot handheld for the rest of this.”
Making things up? My short-term memory is about shot. I
was forgetting where I put my glasses and the car keys when in my 40’s. It’s a progressive disability, and now I’m 80. Since he didn’t say he left them “at home”, my next thought was that he said he left them “behind”. Wrong again. My errors were not intentional. Thank you for the correction.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
I wondered why this video is so shaky. Hard to analyze what you’re looking at when it jumps around the screen.
So I asked a guy with 30 pro years in film. He said:
“He is filming from a distance, zooming all the way in with his zoom lens, so the slightest operator movement will show up as a shaky, drifting frame.
“He doesn’t have a good heavy tripod, but one that he fights against in an effort at steadiness.
“Even with a crappy tripod, he could frame his shot, tighten the pan and tilt locking mechanisms and then not touch the tripod at all, yielding a static shot. I don’t know why he does not do this. It is in defiance of plain common sense. It makes me question his whole project, his entire set of claims and objectives.
“He should use an even longer, more telephoto lens…
“Once he is pointed at what he wants, he should lock his tripod and leave it alone!”
I hadn’t mentioned that it makes me question the same, so my guy’s spontaneous opinion corroborates my own.
Why go to all that trouble if you’re not going to do all you can to get clear shots?
In the video, he says that he left his night vision rig on the tripod from the night before. He was handheld because he didn’t want to risk missing the thing.
Some of the video of the daytime object is very steady.
“It makes me question his whole project, his entire set of claims and objectives.”
haha Good for you.
How about you set about trying to get more impressive video about what goes on at that place and post it.
I wonder why my pro assumes a tripod when the guy says he left his at home?
I don’t do camera work. The pro is in the East with wife and kids and fulltime job, so can’t venture off to the West. Plus, he doesn’t sound interested in this kind of thing.
“I wonder why my pro assumes a tripod when the guy says he left his at home?”
I have no idea why you’re making things up about the tripod. He doesn’t say that he left the tripod at home.
Listen from: 12:04:
https://youtu.be/77BBA4VR8_Y?si=6bl5btseRGAXqrYo&t=724
“My tripod still had the night vision and spotting scope set up attached to it for my night viewing the night before. So I quickly grabbed my camera and shot handheld for the rest of this.”
Making things up? My short-term memory is about shot. I
was forgetting where I put my glasses and the car keys when in my 40’s. It’s a progressive disability, and now I’m 80. Since he didn’t say he left them “at home”, my next thought was that he said he left them “behind”. Wrong again. My errors were not intentional. Thank you for the correction.