A Shutter speed of a 1000?
I huge fan of Joe Penna MysteryGuitarMan on Youtube. If you have not checked out his videos, you really need to. He is so freakin’ creative! I am going to try using his style at some point.
But check out this image capture from his latest video. I think he uses the 7D for his videos and his latest one looked a bit off then I noticed his setting on his preview monitor. The Shutter speed is at 1000, that seems odd, but perhaps not too odd because he does a lot of stop motion effects and perhaps that is the look he is going after.
I just bought one of his t-shirts to help support what he does.
That is interesting. I suspect if you ask him, he’ll tell you. But wouldn’t we expect to see a low f-stop setting (don’t know what lens he’s using) which it looks fairly low on his screen, and a high ISO, to compensate for low light capture of such a fast shutter speed?
I would expect that, like you, for a stop motion setup these may be normal settings. But he appears to be in a video mode, 1080p24, so it does seem all very out of place.
MysteryGuitarMan likes to mess with people minds though. Maybe that’s all he’s doin.
It looks like he does use a 7D (at least according to his channel)
I wonder if it was just to get that really vivid surreal feel. That video almost looked ultra real… no motion blur at all… it was kinda cool but not very good at creating that creamy film look.
I think in the right situation that could be a really cool effect that’s not really noticed.
O’Ryan is right here I guess. There are IMHO two motivations for such a shutter speed: a) Too much light (which is unlikely in these indoor settings) or b) the elimination of motion blur. Especially at 24 frames, the motion blur you get with 1/50 will make the motion look smooth. Using 1/1000 will make motion more stuttery. I think FilmRiot had something about this look in one of its Episodes as well.
But if you were going for that surreal look wouldn’t you film at 30p? Or maybe even 60p?
Maybe he likes the color tones 1600 gives off, and wants to keep the DOF shallow.
I think he needed a shutter speed of 1000 because of the motion tracking… (less motion blur)
Asked him on twitter, let’s see if I get an answer
@Dailylike thanks, that would be cool if he replies.
I wonder what he is using for a preview monitor… would be nice to have one of those when I am shooting video of myself.
I’m pretty sure some people use high shutter speed so that they can isolate each frame better. I haven’t tried it, but I’m sure it helps with motion tracking.
http://www.vimeo.com/10704940 – this guy did the same thing.
@Evan, I love Chris’s videos.
Hi all!
I don’t understand this discussion all. You are talking about video, aren’t you?
I always thought that for video I can only use the f-stop and ISO settings. On some DSLR maybe fps, too. I never thought about shutter speed for video due to the shutter is open all the time during filming.
lower f-stop -> more light available, shallow depth of field -> low ISO
higher f-stop -> less light available, higher total depth of field -> high ISO
So if you want a high depth of field e.g. f16 you must put more light to the scene or select a hight ISO setting for accurate exposure.
Please explain me how a shutter speed of 1s/1000 or 1s can affect the filming.
Stefan,
It’s due to the way dslr’s shoot video. It’s called rotating, or sometimes rolling, shutter. The rule of thumb is you want your shutter speed set to double the video frame rate. It’s a very important topic for using your dslr for video and there’s lots of information out there about it nowadays. Just google it up.
Hi all!
I didn’t saw your point because I’m using a Nikon D90. With that DSLR (Firmware 1.0) it is not possible to use different shutter speeds. The cam sets them by self.