Hello! It’s Sakura, and I’m home visiting my parents in Fukui. First up from the Everio Video Hunters! this year: snowscapes from Fukui, shot with the new Everio GZ-E200. Fukui prefecture is about two hours from Tokyo by plane and is bordered by the Sea of Japan. People say it’s the best prefecture in Japan for health, longevity and livability. There wasn’t that much snow yet in comparison to last winter, but I went out for a leisurely walk in the brisk morning air with the GZ-E200, capturing as I went!

The GZ-E200 model is capable of Full HD recording at 1920×1080, and it’s mounted with a Back-illuminated CMOS Sensor which allows you take bright, clean captures even in dim situations. Even though it’s a compact entry-class model, it’s a good, reliable camera with the full array of basic functions.

Rambling and Capturing!

Even though there wasn’t a whole lot of snow, things don’t get much chillier than a winter morning. Still, the world feels so good first thing in the morning! Everio in hand, I drank in the cold, clear air to my heart’s content. I was holding the camera the whole time I captured, but the Advanced Image Stabilizer did a great job minimizing camera shake. The scenery was magical: lightly covered with snow, still shrouded in mist. It was hard to look away.

The Hokuriku region faces the Sea of Japan. In winter, with the added influence of the cold air rolling down from Siberia, the weather is very changeable. One minute it’s sunny, and the next minute clouds have rolled in, thunder rumbles, and snow begins to fall. The weather keeps doing that all day long. So of course, while I was on my walk, I started to hear rumbling, and then snowflakes began drifting down… When I looked across the road, the distant mountains were bathed in bright sunlight, even though where I was, the clouds were thick and it was snowing. It was such a strange sight. The GZ-E200 has a 40x Optical Zoom, so I tried for a shot of those faraway mountains.

Last year, there was a tough little camellia blossoming in the midst of that fierce cold.
I saw it this year, too, blooming and beautiful. I’m so delighted!

I put together a digest of the snowscape videos I took on my walk. Please take a look.

This year’s Everios also come equipped with the Intelligent AUTO function, which automatically selects the most appropriate settings for a situation when you shoot. I managed to capture the delicate beauty of the snow country just as I saw it, both in the flat, dull landscape still hung with morning mist, and in landscapes with bold contrast like those distant, sunlit clouds and mountains seen from under gloomy cloudcover!

Capturing Fierce Snow Flurries!

On the last day of my visit, we had a heavy snowfall. The snow just kept coming down—I wanted to watch it all day long. It looked like it was going to be deep…
Right away, I grabbed my Everio and started capturing. Snow that drifts softly down, sparse sprinkles of snow, snow so heavy it’s almost blinding – I managed to capture lots of different types! I compiled them all into another video; take a look.

Everio Video Hunters, 2012! Ready, Set, Go!

The Everio Video Hunters have managed to start the year off on the right foot again. We’re going to bring you lots more of the new Everios, including videos testing their functions and videos taken in all sorts of situations. We hope you’ll stick with us this year, too!

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The new Everio lineup was introduced just this month at the 2012 International CES.
A stream of information is being released; have you taken a look yet?

The 2012 Everios are loaded with functions we’d love to recommend, above and beyond the GZ-EX/VX/GX series’ Wi-Fi function mentioned in the previous post. All models are capable of 1920×1080 Full HD AVCHD recording, and are able to capture bright, high-definition images even in low-light situations, thanks to the use of the Back-illuminated CMOS Sensor. On top of that, they’re packed with features like high-ratio zoom and powerful camera shake compensation as well as unique functions to make capturing more fun like Time-Lapse REC. In this post, we’ll reveal the advantages of the lineups for each series.

GZ-E/EX Series

Equipped with Optical 40x Zoom! A compact entry-class model that lets absolutely anyone enjoy high-resolution recording with ease.

GZ-V/VX Series

A design so slim and stylish you’ll want to take it everywhere with you.
A high-performance model with an F1.2 bright lens, capable of handling both high-speed video recording and high-speed continuous stills.

GZ-GX Series

Capable of AVCHD progressive recording, with a 29.5mm wide-angle lens.
A highly expandable, high-end model for serious enthusiasts.

With the Everios, after some high-resolution capturing, you can have fun editing and processing your images with the provided software, Everio MediaBrowser 4 / 4 BE. You won’t be able to take your eyes off these powered-up Everios in 2012! The Everio Video Hunters! will be showing you the unique features of these new Everios one after another, so stay tuned.

For more information on the 2012 Everio Lineup

http://everio.jvc.com/index.html

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Once a year, the International CES gathers the newest technology from around the world and exhibits hot new products in the field of electronics. In 2012, it was held from January 10 through 13 in Las Vegas. At the show, JVC’s imaging division introduced the Wi-Fi equipped Everios*, the GZ-EX/VX/GX series, as the key models for 2012! The Wi-Fi functions in this line make innovative shooting styles a reality.

The CES Venue

These camcorders are the first Everios to be equipped with Wi-Fi. Naturally, their high resolution recording, high zoom ratio, and basic video camera performance are all very impressive; in addition, by realizing wireless connections with smartphones and tablets, they’re now loaded with communications functions not found in conventional models. They are expected to fulfill new shooting needs as next-generation camcorders.

Everio, now with Wi-Fi

Adding Wi-Fi has brought even more fun to the Everio world, opening up new ways to capture.
First, take a look at this video, which demonstrates the Wi-Fi features!

Thanks to the new Wi-Fi function, past concepts of video cameras have been revolutionized in a variety of shooting situations. Up until now, the main role of camcorders has been to preserve visual content as memories of the past. Now, however, Wi-Fi provides immediacy, and the network connectivity formed by coordination with smartphones and tablets facilitates capturing that is not limited by time and space. For example, with Live Monitoring, a father on an overseas business trip can enjoy his son’s soccer match in real time through his PC, while the memories are simultaneously preserved as high-resolution images on the Everio unit. Recorded images can also be transferred to the smartphone there and then, and immediately uploaded to YouTube or facebook to easily share with people around the world!

Everio Wi-Fi features

Everio has once again introduced innovations in camcorder use, focusing on the valuable connections between people. We hope you’ll pick one up and see for yourself how amazing they are! The Everio Video Hunters! will also be trying out new shooting situations that put the Wi-Fi to work, so stay tuned!

* Available models/features differ by region.
** Free app available for Android phones/tablets, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. This application supports OS2.1 or later for Android, and iOS4 or later for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad; however, this does not constitute a guarantee that all devices using those operating systems can use these application features.

For more information on the 2012 Everio Lineup

http://everio.jvc.com/index.html

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Picking up from where I left off in the last post, I’ll be bringing you the night scenery of Yokohama with the high-sensitivity GZ-HM860 and GZ-HM650 Everios. This time, I’ll try something a bit more challenging. I’ll use a slow shutter speed and focusing in to create variations on the night view images. For the finale, I’ll even shoot a video of city lights from a car!

Unique Effects with Slow Shutter Speed and Focusing In!

First, I tried to create a streaming “light tracks” effect by using a slow shutter speed.
Using a slow shutter speed lengthens the exposure time, so captures come out brighter; however, that slower speed makes it very easy to pick up camera shake. This time, I put the camera shake to work, using it to create an effect instead. When you set the shutter speed to 1/3 and zoom in or out in one movement, the lights stream out in rays; it’s really neat! Then, if you pan in one motion, the lights in the image stream sideways as though you’re warping. When I did this in town, in places where there were lots of cars and foot traffic, the images were filled with the flowing movements of passersby and the lights of the cars, and it gave them a vaguely dreamlike feel.

Next, I used focusing in to manually blur the beginning of the shot for a unique transition effect. I set the Everio to use auto focus, then held my hand up close to the lens, letting it focus on my hand. Then I just whisked my hand out of the frame, making the camera lose focus, and began to capture! That way, the video started out blurred and gradually came into focus. It felt as though the beauty of the lights came through even better this way than with the normal night view capture.

Through clever use of effects, you can create impressive images that could easily be scenes from a television drama!

Attempting a Time-Lapse REC Video of Night Scenery from a Car!

Then, for the finale, I shot a video of the city lights from a car! To capture, I fixed the Everios firmly to the car’s dashboard.

First I used the GZ-HM860 and shot a Time-Lapse video, using one-second intervals.
I used Night Mode in Manual, and I fixed the focus. When capturing video from vehicles, the surrounding scenery changes at terrific speed; the focus has a tendency to become unstable, such as settling on the windshield, so you really need to fix it! It’s easy to do: first, go into Manual Mode and set it to “auto focus” to let the camera automatically adjust the focus, then return to “manual focus” to lock the focus.
The 29.5 mm wide-angle lens captured the night scenery around the car perfectly, and I got a clear video that’s bursting with power and the feeling of speed.
I also used the Everio MediaBrowser 3 BE to add background music!

Night View Video Shot from Car Heading for Tokyo Tower

When we got close to Tokyo Tower, near the city center, I used the GZ-HM650, set at normal speed, to capture a video of the city lights from the car. As with the GZ-HM860, I fixed the focus in Manual before I started capturing. We were heading straight for Tokyo Tower, and the video caught the approach beautifully!
I used jazz as the background music this time, to play up the atmospheric city lights.

All right: including the previous post on “It’s the Best Time of Year for Capturing Night Views!”, I’ve used two posts to introduce several mini-techniques. I hope you’ve enjoyed them.
When you see night views, you often want to capture both the sight and the emotions you feel when you look at it so you can take them all home with you. However, I’m sure many people have had the experience of not being able to capture quite the way they’d like.
I think you can preserve the scenes and atmosphere you want to capture more attractively by using different modes for different situations, and by adding effects to enhance them. I hope you’ll all try your hands at capturing night views, too!

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In winter, the air is clear, and night views are more beautiful than at any other time of year. The high-sensitivity GZ-HM860 and GZ-HM650 both have Back-illuminated CMOS Sensors that let them take clear captures even at night, so I took them to Yokohama to capture the city lights!

Yokohama is the second most populous city in Japan, after Tokyo, and is located about 30 kilometers south of Tokyo’s downtown. The bayside area is particularly well known for its beautiful night view; of special note are the reflections of the city lights in the water, and other effects produced in tandem with Tokyo Bay. Over two posts, I’ll start shooting at twilight, then try out various methods as I capture the scenery until night falls completely.

Everios that can take clear nighttime captures

Capturing Twilight Scenery with the Optical 40x Zoom!

First, using the GZ-HM650’s Optical 40x Zoom, I took aim across the bay at Yokohama’s city lights. It was the beautiful twilight hour, and the sun was setting slowly.

When capturing night views, it’s absolutely essential to minimize camera shake. Since light is less intense at night, shutter speed is slower. For that reason, the blurring will be obvious if you capture while holding the camera in your hands, so as a rule, you’ll capture using a tripod.

Using the manual settings, I fixed the focus near the time display on the ferris wheel and slowly zoomed out and then in again. I’m always amazed by the power in the 40x zoom, and the fact that it’s optical means there’s no deterioration in image quality.

Capturing Changing Night Views with Time-Lapse REC

The sun had very nearly set, so I used Time-Lapse REC to capture the changes in the city nightscape until it was completely dark. Using the manual settings, I fixed the focus on the very farthest distance and began capturing at one-second intervals. Pay special attention to the buildings and illuminations, which grow brighter as the night sky changes, and to the movement of the clouds and the ships crossing Yokohama Port!

This video was shot at one frame per second and played back at thirty times its original speed. In actual recording time, the changes in the video cover about twenty-one minutes. When recording a night view, there are a lot of lights in the city and sky that move more than you’d expect, so I recommend setting your interval at one or two seconds.

Comparing Capture Modes for Night Views!

Next I took the GZ-HM860, which is capable of taking wide-angle captures even at close range, to the bayside area and tried to capture a dramatic cityscape! In this area, you can see the lights from the ferris wheel and the skyscrapers reflected at the water’s edge. As a result, you also see lots of people with single-lens reflex cameras and camcorders, here to capture the night view.

All right! At that point, I wanted to do some full-on night view hunting, but I had a hard time deciding which settings to use. This model is particularly good at taking bright, clear captures with Intelligent AUTO. This time, though, I was after a night view with more impact, so I also singled out Night, Night Eye, and Shutter Speed 1/3 in the manual settings and tried them all! Go ahead, check out the video.

After trying each, I discovered that Night Mode makes the sky blacker and plays up the lights, making them clearer. Night Eye Mode makes the colors brighter and more vivid; it also blurs very easily, so be careful. Does each setting have situations in which it’s particularly effective? I checked on their merits with our technical supervisor!

This is only the technical perspective; listen to your feelings about a particular shot and try the one that seems best! Okay: in the next post, I’ll apply what I’ve learned about capturing night views. You’ll find lots of info on night view onboard video and on how to capture nighttime cityscapes to their best effect, so look forward to it!

>> Continued next time

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Hello, this is Ayako. In the last two posts, Toshi showed us the soccer scenes he captured with the HD Memory Camera GC-PX10, but for this round, I would like to introduce some sports action taken with the Everio! I captured by hand with the GZ-HM860 and I used the Time-Lapse REC feature with the GZ-HM440 on a tripod.

Wide Angle Capture of Group League Sports with the GZ-HM860

The most appealing feature of the GZ-HM860 when capturing soccer scenes is its 29.5mm wide-angle lens!
Since you can get a wide capture of the athletes’ action from one of the corners of the field, you capture not only the movement surrounding the ball, but also the entire field. You can cover the entire game in the screen! On top of this, with no picture deterioration, the 15x Dynamic Zoom lets you zoom in beautifully on each athlete. With this, I can zoom in on exciting scenes of players facing off. Since these scenes were taken by hand, the Advanced Image Stabilizer really helped, reducing the camera shake in the video.

GZ-HM860 29.5mm Wide-angle Lens Area

* This is a simulated screen image with an actual capture.

Now, while predicting the movement of the game, I was recording! I selected either the Intelligent AUTO, or “SPORTS” on manual as the shooting mode. Please take a look at the wide-angle scenes I shot using the GZ-HM860 with the 15x Dynamic Zoom.

Trying Out the ZOOM MIC!

The GZ-HM860 is equipped with a function called the ZOOM MIC.
This is a feature which syncs the microphone to the camera’s zoom in order to change its directivity. This means that as you zoom in on a subject, the microphone increases its directivity. At the same time, when you zoom out, the directivity decreases and a wider sound area is captured. Since I haven’t really used this function up until now, I didn’t really know when it would be best used, but when I turned it ON this time the effect was a perfect match for this shoot. Please try listening closely to the audio while watching this video!

With the wide shots, the audio has a spacious sound image, and when I zoom in on one of the players, you can really hear their individual voice come alive. As the video and audio gets closer and farther with the zoom, it feels very dynamic, as if you were right there. The ZOOM MIC function is very handy indeed. I would like to try out this function in other situations as well.

Soccer Scenes Captured with the GZ-HM440 Time-Lapse REC

Finally, I would like to show you the Time-Lapse REC video I shot with the GZ-HM440.
I set the interval at 1 sec or 5 sec. I tried from various angles, such as taking the camera off of the tripod and shooting from close to the field. Watching the players’ movements in Time-Lapse REC is very interesting.

Capturing sports scenes can be difficult with so much movement on the field! Even when you ready your camera for the next movement, the action might be different from what you expect. For this reason, this shoot was a bit challenging at times. Shooting exciting sports action makes the person with the camera feel as if they are participating in the game as well. This may be another reason why capturing sports scenes is so appealing.

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All right! Picking up where I left off last time, here’s Part 2 of the post where I test the HD Memory Camera GC-PX10’s performance with sports videos. This is a challenge for the high-speed continuous still shooting function. I also did some editing while playing with the bundled LoiLoScope FX software.

Capture Split-Second Changes with 60fps Continuous Still Recording!

Okay, let’s get right to it and look at some stills I shot with the GC-PX10’s high-speed continuous shooting. With the GC-PX10, you can use high-speed continuous shooting in both still capture and video capture. This time, I took on “High Speed Mode”, which has a maximum rate of 60fps (60 frames per second) in NTSC video capture mode. At 60fps, you can capture continuously over about 2.1 seconds for a maximum of 130 shots!

There’s a trick to this: predict the progression of events – where the ball is going to go next – and watch for your chance. If you have your camera ready and aimed at the spot where the ball’s going to end up, you’ll feel a bit less tense, and you’ll be able to capture a smooth sequence of changes, including that one precise moment.

High-speed continuous still shooting produces a sequence of 8.3 Megapixel JPEGs at 16:9 in video mode, and 12 Megapixels JPEGs at 4:3 in still mode. You can change the continuous shooting speed settings for both.

At this point, I tried something new. Using the LoiLoScope FX video editing software that comes bundled with the GC-PX10, I took the JPEG data and made it into a sort of flipbook video. It’s simple: all you do is line up a sequence of stills at regular intervals on a time line. I managed to create a video in which you can get a good look at separate split seconds of movement too fast for the naked eye to follow, and it was easy.

Editing a Dynamic Sports Image Video

I tried creating a video of dynamic sports scenes using the GC-PX10’s clean, progressive video, dynamic high-speed video and high-speed continuous still shots. It was just a practice match, but I captured some spirited playing. LoiLoScope FX is simple and intuitive to operate. It’s easy to edit things until they’re just the way you pictured them. You can also change the order of the cuts and adjust the length, all while checking your results against a real-time preview screen.

This time I used video Boss captured with the GC-PX10 PAL model for material. Because the video frame rate on the PAL model is different from the NTSC model, the high-speed and high-speed continuous capture rates are slightly different. Even so, I think I still managed to turn out a smooth image video in high-resolution 36 Mbps Full HD Progressive.

What do you think?
I used the manual settings on the PAL model too, then shot in scene select Sports Mode and in Shutter Speed Priority Mode at a shutter speed of 1/4000. The GC-PX10 has an Easy Mode Dial like the one you’d find on a high-performance still camera, so you can easily change the settings any time you like. The combination of that and the nearby Manual Adjustment Dial lets you switch between settings quickly, fine-tuning them to suit the situation, so that you’re able to enjoy capturing sports on a more active level.

The LoiLoScope FX Intuitive Interface

In closing, I’ll tell you a bit about the LoiLoScope FX interface.
Using it is very intuitive – what you see is what you get. You can manipulate images freely on a timeline, controlling them in real time.

As I mentioned previously in Part 1, you can use LoiLoScope FX to extract stills from video, but that’s not all – there are other handy features that allow you to insert text, add effects, and upload directly to YouTube and Facebook.

I hope you enjoyed the dynamic sports scenes captured with the HD Memory Camera GC-PX10. And I hope you’ll all try using the GC-PX10 to capture action-packed scenes and images you’d never be able to see with the naked eye! There are all sorts of new discoveries to be made!

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Did everyone get a chance to experience the new GC-PX10 HD Memory Camera that we introduced in our Everio Fan Blog the other day?

The GC-PX10 is equipped with the FALCONBRID Engine, a one-chip engine that can simultaneously process both stills and video, and can accommodate continuous still recording as well as high-speed video capture. It is this high-speed image processing capability that has brought enormous attention from various fields—including the sports and nature observation—to the GC-PX10. Its ability to capture never-before-seen ‘exact moments’ has placed it in a league of its own.

For this shoot, as I wanted to test the GC-PX10 for its sports-capturing ability, I went to take some shots at a real sports scene! With the permission of the Aoyama Gakuin University Soccer Club, who are currently battling it out in the Kanto University Soccer League games, I set off to capture their soccer practice! For this shoot, I used the NTSC model.

Extracting ‘exact moments’ from 36 Mbps Full HD 60P Video!

To begin, I wanted to try extracting ‘exact moments’ from progressive video. The GC-PX10 can handle recording in Full HD 1920×1080/60P video sampled at 36 Mbps. You can extract high-quality stills from extremely detailed videos, as if you just stopped all the motion within the frame. These exact moments appear within a blink of an eye in sports. While I followed the athletes who were running around in the field, I tried capturing them with the Optical 10x Zoom of the GC-PX10.

The stills I extracted were of eye-popping quality! This is the true power of progressive video. Compared with extracting from interlaced video, the clarity of the images is obvious.

* Both shot with 1/4000 Shutter Speed, Shutter Priority mode.

When capturing sports scenes with a single-lens reflex camera, you very often find that as soon as you press the shutter button, you miss capturing the crucial shot in the next moment. With a camcorder, you are able to capture the entire scene from beginning to end, but it is difficult to extract a high-quality image from a particular moment. However, with the GC-PX10 and its 36Mbps High Bit Rate Recording and 60fps progressive video format, each and every frame is recorded as a high-quality image in stunning detail, thus allowing for the extraction of as many high-quality ‘exact moments’ as you want, later on. You can even capture the moment a bird is taking off, as if you simply stopped that moment in time, without any blur.

Take a look at the stills together with the original video, which was edited with the bundled software LoiLoScope FX. In this dynamic goal scene, everyone is moving so energetically.

For me, extracting an exact moment from video was a first-time experience.
Since it allowed me to capture certain moments that would have been difficult with a normal camera, it was very exciting!

Experience 300fps Ultra High-Speed Video Recording!

The NTSC model I used for this shoot is equipped with high-speed video shooting at 300 frames per second. Up to two hours of continuous high speed recording is possible with the attached battery, so an entire game of soccer can be recorded with the camera. Its zoom functions can be used during recording as well. Movement can be slowed down to 5-times normal speed during playback.

Please take a look by comparing the video in normal and high speed.
I shot simultaneously using two GC-PX10s. This video was edited with the bundled software LoiLoScope FX.

Tiltable LCD Monitor, Useful for Low Angle Capturing

The GC-PX10 was designed similarly to a still camera, with its portability and secure grip. It is designed so that users can easily follow a subject, whether capturing stills or video.
Capturing the soccer scenes meant there were a lot of shots that I needed to take with low angles, capturing the legs of the athletes. With the camera’s tiltable touch panel LCD monitor, controlling the shoot and checking the video was very easy!

>> Continued next time

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A full moon is visible just a few times every year. In Japan, the moon is most beautiful in the autumn as the sky and air is very clear. August 15 of the old lunar-solar calendar is known as “Chushu no Meigetsu” or the Harvest Moon, and there is a long tradition in Japan of “Tsukimi” or moon viewing, a custom that was brought from China many years ago.
This year, September 12th on the Gregorian calendar is the date of the Harvest Moon. Since it was the first time in six years to be able to observe a full moon on this day, there were many events around the nation to enjoy the spectacle. As the following day was excellent weather as well, I took the opportunity to try capturing the beautiful moon with the GZ-HM650.

When shooting in Auto Mode, the moon usually becomes white and out-of-focus. Although it’s very difficult to capture its shadows and many craters, once you understand the important points, it is possible to get even a very bright full moon.

How to Capture the Moon in All of Its Splendor

The moon is over 380 thousand kilometers away from Earth.
As such, it is an excellent subject to test the power of an industry-leading Optical 40x Zoom!
I take aim to capture the full moon with a clear view of its craters, the moon filling the frame.

There are two types of zoom functions on camcorders, digital and optical, but since the Digital Zoom magnifies digitally, deterioration of the image quality cannot be avoided. On the other hand, an Optical Zoom, which also comes equipped in the GZ-HM650*, moves the lens to change the distance to what is being focused. The result is that there is no detrimental effect to resolution and image quality, keeping the image beautiful. Furthermore, as the GZ-HM650 is equipped with the highly acclaimed KONICA MINOTA HD LENS, an even clearer zoom function can be expected. Even with the Dynamic Zoom function, it is possible to zoom up to 70 times without losing any image quality in standard definition. *Digital zoom can accommodate up to 200x zoom.

Since you have to zoom all the way on the “tele” side when capturing the moon, camera shake is definitely a problem.
This is where using a tripod becomes important. Another still photo capture technique is to use the self-timer function. This resolves the impact of when you push the shutter, so you can capture a beautiful image without worrying about camera shake.

I would now like to get right into capturing the moon. First, I try taking a still photo with the GZ-HM650. The moon has to be captured in manual mode; this is a basic rule. Capturing the moon is like capturing a desert on a sunny day; it is very bright even though set in the pitch-dark background of night. Since the moon is reflecting sunlight, I set the white balance on Fine.

I manually turn the focus to infinity and adjust the focus to the moon. Once I set the Optical 40x Zoom to the tele side limit I only need to press the shutter, but I decide to test a powerful zoom still photo capture technique here! I set the GZ-HM650 timer setting to “2 sec” and shoot, and there is no shake in my beautiful photo.

Moon Capture Challenge with Time-Lapse REC!

With 40x zoom, I realize how fast the moon is actually moving on the monitor.
Since I was curious in what way the moon is actually moving, I set the Time-Lapse REC on “1 sec interval” to trace and capture the moon’s path. It is important to predict which way the moon will move to and set my tripod and adjust the view angle accordingly. Although it was only captured in my frame for 8 seconds, I enjoyed it a lot as it’s something you can’t do normally.

Since I took video at normal speed as well, please take a minute to compare the videos.

According to a technology specialist, exposure metering is weighted on the bottom half of the camera screen. As such, since the starting point of my capture aimed from where the moon came in frame, the moon comes into a pitch-black sky that was corrected for brightness. Therefore, the moon becomes extremely bright in the image.
So to prevent overexposure, I adjusted the Brightness to minus 3, but just before the moon went out of frame the screen became very bright.
This may be because I kept the Gain Up ON, and so I’d really like to try taking a shot at capturing again sometime soon.

I now understand that with the steps I introduced in this edition, the moon can be captured very beautifully! As our capture environment continues to change, I think it would be worthwhile to try a range of settings to discover which works best.

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]]> http://www.everio-fan.com/2011/10/07_1532.html/feed 0 http://www.everio-fan.com/2011/09/22_1448.html http://www.everio-fan.com/2011/09/22_1448.html#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:00:23 +0000 Sakura http://www.everio-fan.com/?p=1448 Come see the summer fireworks we captured with the high-sensitivity Everio GZ-HM860 and GZ-HM650. Here, you’ll find everything from a huge fireworks display to handheld fireworks the Everio Video Hunters played with, along with some tips on capturing fireworks. Please enjoy the scenes of summer night fireworks overflow with a spirit unique to Japan!