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013 01 06 BHB Banded jawfish spitting. Movie.
Today I had 2 options. Go east and try to get a better shot of the seahorses or do something different and try the video mode on my slr. I decided to go for the second. I read the manual in the car on the way to BHB and off I went straight to the one interesting subject that is readily available at the moment. It took me a couple of seconds to find my jawfish with blue eyes, its eggs were more developed than last time I saw it. It was so full that it couldn’t close its mouth. I landed and slowly approached, pre-focused and it started pumping like it was going to spit. I hit the record button and it spit a few seconds after. I stopped the recording as it finished. Then I played with different combination of settings …and hopefully I get to know them better with the time.
Camera Movie Settings:
Movie quality: 1920X1080, 24 fps, high quality
Microphone: Off
Destination: Slot 2
Manual Movie settings: Off
(Initially I had them on but the camera would give me ISO 2500 and I wasn’t comfortable with that number and I couldn’t adjust the iso without turning the movie settings Off)
Custom Setting Menu:
A8 Liveview Movie
Autofocus mode: AF-S
I tried AF-F Full time servo but not sure I like it until I see it in screen
AF-Area mode: Face Priority
I also tried Wide-area AF
Normal area AF
Subject tracking AF
…My impression is that the camera locked in a high contrast area and that’s it. I have to read more about it. Not sure what is the proper setting.
I started at f22 but the eggs didn’t look so sharp so I higher up and can’t wait to see the results.
Problems:
1.Its hard for my small hand to push the white/balance preset and I can’t skip that. Do it with the camera pointing down at the slate and with the sun in the back.
2.The record button is hard to push. I need to lengthen the bar It is short for my hand to reach the focus button and pre-set and switch to the record button and while I switch holding the camera with the other hand I easily loose the focus point.
3. Get a gorilla tripod.
4. Try Ev -1 always for video (De Neef recomends -0.3 to -0.7)
5 Use the grid d2
6. Steve de Neef recommends the 60mm with still (105 needs manual focus).
30fps 1/60
24 fps 1/50
Anything less that f11 is unusable f11-f22 is ok
Iso 320 and probably no higher than 1200.
This is the most helpful review I found so far: http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-special-features/article/macro-underwater-slr-video/
Then I waited for it to spit again and tried to shoot him from different angles. Judy showed me a dusky with huge eggs but just a few all the way inside its mouth and hard to see. Then I saw a boxer crab, a pipefish, a tiny seahorse …headed back. Today was my last dive at the bridge for the month to follow. 😞
13ft 217 min 77oF S100cc 7mm Pinnacle Ankle weght+2
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