Exposurecontrol on Nikon D90
by tobias corts
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Jul 15, 2009 at 11:07:09 am
Was recently playing with the D90 in shop. Liked the quality of the stills I took.Though while playing I couldn't find the function to fix the iris in live view mode. Is it possible to fix it while filming?
Re: Exposurecontrol on Nikon D90 by tobias corts on Jul 16, 2009 at 5:14:33 pm
Hi, now I can call it my own. Still I have great problems controling exposure while filming in livemode.
Is there perhaps an older forum about the question?
Everyone talks about the 720 feature...can't understand why:-(
Re: Exposurecontrol on Nikon D90 by Martti Ekstrand on Jul 17, 2009 at 8:38:54 am
I harping about it like a parrot right now, but have a look at the Panasonic GH1 - I got one and it's pretty darn good for it's price. Full manual in video mode. Can be hard to find at moment though.
Re: Exposurecontrol on Nikon D90 by Robert Altman on Aug 8, 2009 at 11:56:02 am
While the d90 doesn't let you manually control exposure, you can lock the exposure before shooting. It tends to overexpose in the LiveView mode, so aim the camera at a brighter part of the scene before engaging the lock. You also can manually set your F-stop (and hence your DOF) before engaging the LiveView mode. The camera seems to default to a filmic shutter (1/48th or so) unless you are in bright light--here you need ND filters, just as you would on any other camera to maintain the shutter speed.
The d90 is a great entree into video DSLR shooting--a lot of very nice projects have been shot on it (check out the vimeo Nikon d90 group for examples). Hopefully Nikon will give us a firmware update with manual controls and come up with a newer body in the next year or so with improved capabilities.
Personally I think that the GH-1 is over-rated, and that the future will be with Nikon or Canon's line of cameras.
Re: Exposurecontrol on Nikon D90 by Martti Ekstrand on Aug 9, 2009 at 6:45:32 pm
Well, if a $1500 camera that out-of-the-box can shoot this with only a couple of NDs added is overrated then I don't know what would live up to your expectations. Click on title to view it in HD on Vimeo. Or download it as a Quicktime file.
