My Video Kit

It has been a while since I have posted anything of interest here on my blog...for those of you who are kind enough to take a look I am very sorry. Lack of work and inevitably Money has forced me to spend time nearer home rather than on my permissions where I have acre after acre to roam over.

Recently I took my Video kit to a local riverside walk to film the Geese...it is here that a massive flock/gaggle (never sure of the exact terminology) spend theirearly mornings stripping local fields of clover and other juicy goodies before flying to the river for some take off and landing practice...I find this fascinating as they come in to land in groups of a dozen or so, they then swim for a few minuted before taking back off again in similar sized groups...back and forth they go giving me lots of practice with my camera.

I got a nice present for Christmas from my lovely wife...a set of lenses for my Full HD video Camera...I would like to tell you about the kit I use. I use a Panasonic HDC SD 200 full cinema quality HD Camera, this is a triple CCD Camera for true cinema colour quality filming...it boasts every feature you need to make stunning movies including remote control. The lenses I got for xmas are a superb 2.2 X Telephoto with superior clarity glassware...when you use this in conjunction with the optical zoom it gives you almost the same zoom range that you get if you use the digital zoom, but without the loss of detail that digital zoom gives...The second lens, a superb 0.38 X wide angle, gives almost twice the already available wide angle that the camera comes with...when filming scenery you get fantastic panorama with a limited digital zoom range as clarity is lost at big zoom ranges. Finally the Macro lens is simply superb, macro to 14 diopters and bringing truly superb detail that you don't see with the standard macro facility.

Also in my camera case is a 5 inch remote monitor, spare batteries, lots of Sd Cards all of which are class 6 or higher and always super high speed...the niftiest gadget in the case is a small motion stabilising tripod which is D shaped and can be seen in the small video I have attached for your perusal...I use this a lot and it is very easy to set up even with different lenses....I also have a professional tripod for static shooting along with a smaller one that I have adapted for the remote monitor.

Most of this kit fits in a standard aluminium camera case including the motion tripod...the bulky tripod I carry in its case over my shoulder so it is a very managable set up and is what I use for my filming, some of which I am nearly ready to post so keep looking folks.