The D90: 1st impression, sort of…

I’ve received a number of emails asking about shooting with the D90. Since I mentioned it last week and haven’t posted anything from it, some were inferring from that there is something wrong with the camera. I really hate to make this public announcement because it looks real bad. But the problem is not the camera, it is that I haven’t a clue how to “easily” take the video I shot and put it up on the blog! (the key word here is easy)

I shot with the D90 in “normal” mode, and image from it you see above. It does an excellent job there. It’s the video that’s so new and revolutionary that I want to share with you. Since I can’t get that posted right now, here’s just a couple thoughts on the video shooting process.

You depress the LV (Live View) button to activate the video mode. When you do that you can no longer see through the viewfinder. This is an obstacle for two reasons, you loose AF operation in video mode and you have to focus using the rear LCD monitor. Can you imagine doing that, and, and in full sunshine? At the same time you’re supposed to use proper handholding to get a “sharp” image and not have that video titling horizon problem.

You can shoot a total of 5min of video at a time and the file size is incredibly small considering the images quality is so big. The video that is produced is quite remarkable! Mark from Nikon created a show from his shooting at the races that was stunning. Once I get this video thing under my belt, I’ll post a couple of the 30 videos I shot.