So there I am at Bosque, shooting with the D3s (through the 600mm) and Moose Cam (Canon HF-10 attached as normal above the lens barrel). I’m shooting stills and two types of video, working at figuring out a system while trying to make quality images/video clips. I came back from Bosque with one image I’ve always wanted, a down the barrel shot (which you can’t really see here)
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The eyes are both lit and sharp. Not that it’s the greatest image, it was just a personal challenge.
At the same time challenging myself with this, I was shooting video like I mentioned with both the D3s and HF-10. The D3s since I was focusing manually via the Monitor, I knew those videos were sharp. The HF-10, I just went along as always with it because it has always delivered. Having no time at night to review the days’ video, I didn’t suspect any issues. Spent the weekend though going through 8hrs of video from the HF-10 and to my horror, found it’s all out of focus. I checked the HF-10 and found that I changed the focus from AF to MF! If I had followed my own insistence of reviewing everything I shot that day for video like I do for stills, I would have found the problem first thing. But no, didn’t do that.
What other issues could come up, well, see if you can figure what I goofed up here
It helps if you flip the switch to ON (doh!). I’ve incorporated video into my shooting now for 18month now and I still feel like a beginner. My brilliant assistant came up with the perfect filing system for video which I’ve been searching for this entire time (job security for her) so we’ve made our first step into a workflow, still miles and miles away from perfection. I see more potential for all of this a month ago but I also see a steep learning curve for me as well.