Shooting long to short video

Hi,

I recently filmed my daughter riding without stabilisers, as it was just the second time I brought the point and shoot and got these results - here.

However as it seemed I had free hands again I took the 5D3 the next time out and it was a total mess - out of focus almost the whole time, when I did notice it was out of focus (couldn't tell in strong light on the back screen as its fixed and I was at a bad angle) I used focus and it missed blurred out and with a large whir locked in again - all in all unusable, which seems a shame - £60 point and shoot IXUS 115 HS trashes the £3000 state of the art DSLR.

I have to assume its me, but what can be done and why does it have to be so hard compared? Just because I'm willing to spend a bit of cash why should I also have to have studied at a videography college?

Your point and shoot has a TINY sensor compared to the full frame sensor on the 5D3. If you don't want to have to do much focusing, stop your aperture down significantly. If you want the shallow DOF look, but you want it to actually be in focus, you'll just need to practice your follow focus skills.

Thanks for getting back to me, sadly I thought that might be the case - I stopped down to f11 - apparently that wasn't far enough.

Do you know of any good guides regarding settings for video?

https://photography-on-the.net …ighlight=pictur​e+profiles

Here is a link to a post made regarding picture profiles. It might help you out with some of the settings. Follow focus is hard and I have the same problem when filming my granddaughter. I don't have a view finder or monitor attached to the camera, so the view finder on the back of the camera gets small really quick.
Auto focus is nice, but you can't do any of the cool stuff with AF on.

Good Luck

Arron

Thats a lot to read over, thanks Arron I'll take a look.

I hope it helps. I am struggling too with camera operation. Focusing has been one of my challenges, and I try using auto focus but it always get blurring once I move the camera.

I need a view finder or an external monitor, because my eyes aren't good enough for the view finder on the camera.

Good Luck to you