The camera also offers dual slot for storage with two cards, one for video and one for photography and with Nikon’s selection of fthe best NIKKOR interchangeable lenses — from ultra-wide-angle and fisheye to super-telephoto – would enhance the impact of HD video. Also, the camera’s versatile Picture Control adjustment options let you modify, colour and tone the HD video clips extremely easily, and there wouldn't be much of a need to learn videography packages such as final cut pro, especially if we kept the video footage to a minimum and just used it to top up the photo service.
The only question now is when do I upgrade the camera to a new model that offers HD capability or should we invest in a dedicated HD camcorder that is seperate but might be slightly better quality wise. Do we really need to be carrying an extra camera bag around with us all day with video equipment plus the extra tripod that it would require to be left on in the corner for example capturing sound only.
choices! choices! at this point though Im sticking firmly with my nikon d700 and hoping that rumours of a d700x come true at some point during the next year or so as I would like the HD facility on a full frame camera that canon currently offer with the 5d mark two.
Having said that the d300s is still a very very good camera in its own right.
Yesterday we happened to be at a supermarket in Swansea. Now I dont know about you but when my wife
is doing the food shop, I always tend to lean towards the magazine section and try and convince her that she's
better off doing the shopping alone and meet me back later while I browse the magazines and drool over the
latest gadgets and new photography equipment.
While I was there and yes you've guessed it.. browsing the latest digital camera magazines I happened to
stumble across the nikon d300s, the canon 500d and a few other models of camera that now offer full HD 720p or 1080p video recording facility that is in built as a neat
bonus to what are otherwise superb cameras for any camera enthusiast.
This got me thinking about using these cameras for wedding photography. This added feature would make it very easy indeed to switch roles and take video footage
of a wedding. In fact I remember thinking along these lines before in a recent wedding in Swansea.
But the question is should a photographer who's main line of business and work is to predominantly do wedding photography be belending and merging his role into the unchartered territory that is wedding videos? For me its an easy question to answer because I have relevant experience working in South Wales as a wedding
videographer. I have covered several christenings, weddings and events before although it is
distant past when I was a student, and this makes it even more tempting to switch modes on a nikon d300s via the LV mode from still to video. The downside though is that the d300s is not a full frame camera and this is where it fundamentally falls down for me, even if I am curious of the HD recording facility.
Yesterday I must admit whilst on this trail of thought it did dawn upon me that we could use just some video work as part of our overall wedding package.
By using a tripod during speeches it would be a smart move to capture at least the sound of say the best man and father of the bride speeches and then overlay and mix these into the Kapow slideshow format which would no doubt give an excellent added layer to the meaning of a wedding slideshow.
This would be very easy to do as the Nikon D300s like the others has superb connectivity straight into the computer which would then allow the sound or video or both to be mix and matched and overlayed onto the traditional still slide photography.