Hi All,
Just back from a practice flight on a nice sunny day. As a pro-photographer, but newbie pilot, I was excited to see what the video and stills looked like with good light.
Having been impressed with the sharpness of the 12mm Olympus on the X5S at the wider apertures on murky days, I was surprised to see many stills and clips nicely sharp in the centre, but horribly out of focus at the edges. I'd had the odd one previously, but assumed I'd not been careful enough with my dab-focusing on the app.
Frustrated, I set my I2 up in the window and experimented with both stills and video...
Focusing on distant trees at f2.0, I get sharp stills, edge to edge. If I switch straight to video, without refocusing, I get a nice crisp clip.
However, if I focus again on the trees while in video mode, the edges of the frame go to mush.
If I then focus on the mush at the edge of the frame, the resulting clip is nice and sharp, edge to edge.
Am I missing something here? The only difference is I'm focusing while in video mode.
Is pre-focusing in stills mode the only way I can be sure of getting sharp video?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers,
Al.
Just back from a practice flight on a nice sunny day. As a pro-photographer, but newbie pilot, I was excited to see what the video and stills looked like with good light.
Having been impressed with the sharpness of the 12mm Olympus on the X5S at the wider apertures on murky days, I was surprised to see many stills and clips nicely sharp in the centre, but horribly out of focus at the edges. I'd had the odd one previously, but assumed I'd not been careful enough with my dab-focusing on the app.
Frustrated, I set my I2 up in the window and experimented with both stills and video...
Focusing on distant trees at f2.0, I get sharp stills, edge to edge. If I switch straight to video, without refocusing, I get a nice crisp clip.
However, if I focus again on the trees while in video mode, the edges of the frame go to mush.
If I then focus on the mush at the edge of the frame, the resulting clip is nice and sharp, edge to edge.
Am I missing something here? The only difference is I'm focusing while in video mode.
Is pre-focusing in stills mode the only way I can be sure of getting sharp video?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers,
Al.