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Izzy Video 149 – Shooting Video with a Digital SLR: Part 2- Exposure

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This episode of Izzy Video is part 2 in my series on shooting video with a Digital SLR.

Digital SLR cameras are excellent for shooting video indoors and at night because you can increase the ISO until you have a nice exposure. One of the challenges though is that when you’re shooting video, you usually don’t want a shutter speed other than 1/60th of a second.

This can become a problem in the sunny outdoors because when you want to blur out the backgrounds (shallow depth of field), then you need the aperture open all the way. This lets in too much light which leads to overexposure, and you’ll see in this video, how you can solve that problem.

The variable ND filter you’ll see in this video is this one.

The full version of this tutorial is available to Izzy Video Members only, but you can download the Quicktime version of the trailer here.

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  • Drome McKauliff

    Why do you say 1/60 for exposure when shooting video? All pros I’ve ever met or worked with shoot at either 1/30 or 1/50 (when shooting 24p, because it’s closest to a 1/48 equivalent of a 180-degree shutter angle on a Super35 film camera).

  • Drome McKauliff

    Why do you say 1/60 for exposure when shooting video? All pros I’ve ever met or worked with shoot at either 1/30 or 1/50 (when shooting 24p, because it’s closest to a 1/48 equivalent of a 180-degree shutter angle on a Super35 film camera).

  • http://www.izzyvideo.com Izzy

    Hi, Drome!

    Excellent question.

    When I recommend shooting at 1/60 of a second for the shutter speed, I’m talking about shooting video with the frame rate of 30fps. If you’re shooting 24fps, then 1/48 of a second would be a better shutter speed.

    Also, you can get away with 1/30th of a second at 30fps, but my own opinion is there’s a little too much motion blur. Generally, you can go one or two settings up or down without noticing a big difference, but in this tutorial I’m really trying to illustrate how you don’t want to use shutter speed to control exposure when shooting video outdoors unless you want that strobic, no-motion-blur, look.

    Thanks for the great question! :-)

  • http://www.izzyvideo.com Izzy

    Hi, Drome!

    Excellent question.

    When I recommend shooting at 1/60 of a second for the shutter speed, I’m talking about shooting video with the frame rate of 30fps. If you’re shooting 24fps, then 1/48 of a second would be a better shutter speed.

    Also, you can get away with 1/30th of a second at 30fps, but my own opinion is there’s a little too much motion blur. Generally, you can go one or two settings up or down without noticing a big difference, but in this tutorial I’m really trying to illustrate how you don’t want to use shutter speed to control exposure when shooting video outdoors unless you want that strobic, no-motion-blur, look.

    Thanks for the great question! :-)