View single post by Graham Whistler

Posted: Tue Jul 17th, 2012 04:44

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I don't want to zoom or alter the focus during recording and "I am recording a fairly static subject which doesn't need follow focus, panning or tilting, with the camera mounted on a tripod, then I should be fine."

Robert you have it, but you would still need to compose & shoot using live view. You may also find that focus needs to be on Manual. I find with movie the D800 does not always lock on too well with auto focus.

You would be well impressed with the quality of your footage so I hope my comments in this topic have not been all against the D800. The output from HDMI is of a very high order as stated by several other serious users. Very clean and very sharp with super results even at high ISO so you can see why some major film makers like to use DSLRs.

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