rodfelici
Newbie
Hi!
At december 2012 my girlfriend gifted to me a small Jvc Everio Camcorder.
Since then, I never left it at home.
I have one or more camera ever with me (sometimes too many cameras), but the small Everio give me the possibility to document a lot of things otherwise would be left.
It is the same dimension of a Leica III, but it take several hours of HD video, and really good photos at 2mpx. The resolution of the photos obviously is absolutely too low for serious photography, but is good for documentation. Usually i bring with me at least a digital point and shoot for documentation, photocopy and so on, and a film rangefinder or a small reflex like the OM2 for serious photos. I simply can not waste film for documentation photos, so I need both.
The small Everio is a great substitute for the digital P&S, but it takes great videos too, so since then I has been able to take great videos simply when a great black and white photo would not be sufficient to describe the event anyway.
I like to think that the first leica had the same potentialyty. Before HCB it was simply a great tool to take beautiful photos to describe events, also without necessarly to print large beautiful prints of the shot.
The wartime shots of Tony Vaccaro or Hugo Jaeger are great documents, and often great photos too, and they has been shooted only whit an old leica and an Argus C3. At that time, when cameras was rare, being in the right place with a camera of any kind was most important than the optical quality of lens.
Maybe, 50 years from now, someone will look to everiday short movies taken with small practical camcorder like my Everio in the same way. Ordinary short movies of events, street and so on will be important.
I like to think that HCB could have approved the use of it, because it is simply another way to capture decisive moments, and I am sure that also my beloved idol Kubrick would have appreciate it. Whit a little toy like that when he was a simple photographer for LIFE he would have done marvellous works.
The great Maitani also would have appreciated someting like that. If the best camera is the one you have with you, it should be so also for camcorders.
Beside of that, there are not so many website of forum about small camcorder lovers, and it seems that I am the only person within my friends that bring it with him at any time.
I know, sometimes it could distract me from taking good photos, but I think I learned to understand when is the right moment to take photos and when otherwise is necessary to film a situation to describe it.
So, what do you think of this approach?
Do you use any camcorder to film your quotidianity?
Thanks!!
At december 2012 my girlfriend gifted to me a small Jvc Everio Camcorder.
Since then, I never left it at home.
I have one or more camera ever with me (sometimes too many cameras), but the small Everio give me the possibility to document a lot of things otherwise would be left.
It is the same dimension of a Leica III, but it take several hours of HD video, and really good photos at 2mpx. The resolution of the photos obviously is absolutely too low for serious photography, but is good for documentation. Usually i bring with me at least a digital point and shoot for documentation, photocopy and so on, and a film rangefinder or a small reflex like the OM2 for serious photos. I simply can not waste film for documentation photos, so I need both.
The small Everio is a great substitute for the digital P&S, but it takes great videos too, so since then I has been able to take great videos simply when a great black and white photo would not be sufficient to describe the event anyway.
I like to think that the first leica had the same potentialyty. Before HCB it was simply a great tool to take beautiful photos to describe events, also without necessarly to print large beautiful prints of the shot.
The wartime shots of Tony Vaccaro or Hugo Jaeger are great documents, and often great photos too, and they has been shooted only whit an old leica and an Argus C3. At that time, when cameras was rare, being in the right place with a camera of any kind was most important than the optical quality of lens.
Maybe, 50 years from now, someone will look to everiday short movies taken with small practical camcorder like my Everio in the same way. Ordinary short movies of events, street and so on will be important.
I like to think that HCB could have approved the use of it, because it is simply another way to capture decisive moments, and I am sure that also my beloved idol Kubrick would have appreciate it. Whit a little toy like that when he was a simple photographer for LIFE he would have done marvellous works.
The great Maitani also would have appreciated someting like that. If the best camera is the one you have with you, it should be so also for camcorders.
Beside of that, there are not so many website of forum about small camcorder lovers, and it seems that I am the only person within my friends that bring it with him at any time.
I know, sometimes it could distract me from taking good photos, but I think I learned to understand when is the right moment to take photos and when otherwise is necessary to film a situation to describe it.
So, what do you think of this approach?
Do you use any camcorder to film your quotidianity?
Thanks!!
xxloverxx
Shoot.
I use all of the following: film, digital P&S (waterproof, shock resistant and does HD video), phone and car-key spy-camera.
P&S is mostly for video; the phone can look more natural; film for most things; spy-cam when the situation arises.
P&S is mostly for video; the phone can look more natural; film for most things; spy-cam when the situation arises.
Archiver
Veteran
I've been taking photos and shooting little videos for the past ten years, all since I got my first digital camera. A few years ago I gave some friends photos and video that covered about six years of us hanging out and having fun. While the still images were always good to look at, it was often even more fun to see and hear snippets of what was happening at the time.
I always aim to carry a camera with a good movie mode, even if I'm shooting RF's for the day. The cameras I use most in this way are the Fuji X10 and the X100. They are very versatile cameras. The video from the X10 is very nice, and the face recognition works well in daylight and moderately well in low light. The manual zoom is a GREAT feature for video work, and imparts a semi-professional documentary feel to the videos. The X100 video is not full HD, but with a flick of a button I can record HD video with the same camera I use to capture aps-c images. I imagine that the Sony NEX 5n or 7 would be even better, but I can't get into that system. The native lenses aren't very appealing to me.
Other cameras that interest me for the convergence of video and stills in a pocketable form are the Sony RX-100 and the Nikon V1. Both appear to be super fast with AF and shot to shot time, and their video modes look very good, too.
One of my friends is currently serving in Afghanistan, and I sent him a series of photos and videos from home, just our group of friends talking, eating, and wishing him well. He absolutely loves the videos and enjoys them more than the photos. After returning from a three week trip to Japan and discovering that I had loads of photos but hardly any video, I have been deliberately pushing to record more video wherever I go.
I always aim to carry a camera with a good movie mode, even if I'm shooting RF's for the day. The cameras I use most in this way are the Fuji X10 and the X100. They are very versatile cameras. The video from the X10 is very nice, and the face recognition works well in daylight and moderately well in low light. The manual zoom is a GREAT feature for video work, and imparts a semi-professional documentary feel to the videos. The X100 video is not full HD, but with a flick of a button I can record HD video with the same camera I use to capture aps-c images. I imagine that the Sony NEX 5n or 7 would be even better, but I can't get into that system. The native lenses aren't very appealing to me.
Other cameras that interest me for the convergence of video and stills in a pocketable form are the Sony RX-100 and the Nikon V1. Both appear to be super fast with AF and shot to shot time, and their video modes look very good, too.
One of my friends is currently serving in Afghanistan, and I sent him a series of photos and videos from home, just our group of friends talking, eating, and wishing him well. He absolutely loves the videos and enjoys them more than the photos. After returning from a three week trip to Japan and discovering that I had loads of photos but hardly any video, I have been deliberately pushing to record more video wherever I go.