Sheila_Ward
EF4
Kind of a spin-off of the "Which camcorder do you use" thread. The question was asked in that thread concerning what settings everyone uses on their camcorder. I would like to explore that also. I have a VX2100 and I've been playing with some of the settings. I've noticed with everything set to auto, sometimes the white balance will shift under dark clouds. This happened to me while recording a storm a few days ago. Everything looked great, then while panning into a dark section of the storm, the white balance shifted and everything had a blue tint (like it thought it was indoors).
After all that babbling, my question is what is the best way to setup the camera for shooting storms? I do pretty good when I have time to set up a shot by using the manual settings. But while chasing, the lighting changes so much there's not much time to mess with the settings. As far as white balance, I will probably set that to outdoors instead of auto and see how that does.
I use manual focus, trying to keep it on infinity which works pretty well (wish you could lock it in while zooming).
I'm curious how the rest of you set up your camcorders for chasing. Do you go all auto, or are there specific things you set manually?
After all that babbling, my question is what is the best way to setup the camera for shooting storms? I do pretty good when I have time to set up a shot by using the manual settings. But while chasing, the lighting changes so much there's not much time to mess with the settings. As far as white balance, I will probably set that to outdoors instead of auto and see how that does.
I use manual focus, trying to keep it on infinity which works pretty well (wish you could lock it in while zooming).
I'm curious how the rest of you set up your camcorders for chasing. Do you go all auto, or are there specific things you set manually?