Thursday 18 January 2018

Ruswarp Sheep run

Some of my lambs made top price in their class, but as usual recently there weren't that many in.
This is the gopro Hero4 which I only recently discovered has a 'linear mode' at 2.7K - more or less no fish-eye. (this was added in a firmware update a few months after I got it).

In good light results are now quite pleasing but it is sad to say it has taken well over a year to get to grips with it.

With external mic sound is decent too but I have to do a little tweaking in Adobe Premiere to make it easy to hear.

Sony RX100

At the end of 2017 I bought a lightly used Sony RX100V from ebay and have been impressed so far. They are expensive new but this was about half price so easier to justify. Stills are very good, but I somehow prefer Canon colours(!) With a little tweak or two things still look great despite low light levels in mid-winter. Speaking of which low light is where it really shines - much better than the previous Canon S100 or indeed my rarely used 5d SLR. Best of all the video from it is spectacularly good. It can record 4K but at 1080p it has rather better stabilisation and results are still outstanding. There is a confusing range of options for video and photo styles but as a base point, more or less standard looks fine.