August 2010

Dragonfly hovering filmed with Sony HDR AX2000

Dragonfly hovering filmed with Sony HDR AX2000 – Much tougher than filming the Hooverflies, the dragonfly does not stay stationary very long. Especially when the camera is on them, also they are easy to spook and flu spastic. It took about 15 minutes to get the video with many aborted efforts, filmed at smooth slow [...]

using the Sony HDR AX2000 in the field

Taking the Sony HDR AX2000 in the field. Do you need such an advanced camera as the HDR AX2000? Today 29/07/2010 as I start exploring the camera in manual settings – iris, shutter speed and focus – YES, if you love to make videos, you need this camera. Duration : 0:4:12 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.123sonycamcorder.com%2F344%2Fusing-the-sony-hdr-ax2000-in-the-field%2F’; addthis_title [...]

manual focus and shutter speed Sony HDR AX2000

Our HD videos up until now were filmed with the Sony HDR HC9 and the Sony HDR HC1 – single chip cameras set to auto functions. It worked great and I was delighted with the video quality…then along came the Sony HDR AX2000 and now manual settings. Holy cow, it’s like haveing a DSLR video [...]

from salmon & reefs to whales – Sony HD underwater video

Very excited about being able to do Sony HD underwater video with the new consumer Sony HDR-XR550V – What I like is that with YouTube as the platform for video and Sony HDR-XR550V as the camera we use for video it will be easy to see and judge the picture quality. This is what Sony [...]

Holy Crap! …It’s Here….Sony Stuff

WOW…………..Fast service. Amazing stuff. This vid was edited on the new computer, used to take 1 hour to render 1 minute of video (slowed me down and the video did not play smooth) The new computer is more than 4X faster, easy to set up… Cameras are amazing, the changes in just 2 years to [...]