
Italy - Urbino HD - May 2008
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URBINO
Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region in Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482. The town, nestled on a high sloping hillside, retains much of its picturesque medieval aspect, only slightly marred by the large car parks below the town. It hosts the University of Urbino, founded in 1506, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Urbino. Its best-known architectural piece is the Palazzo Ducale, rebuilt by Luciano Laurana.
Many great artists of the past were born in Urbino, including Bramante, Federico Barocci (an important precursor of the Baroque style) and Raphael.
(cit. wikipedia)
- All shot with Canon HV20 camcorder with Raynox HD 7000 Pro wideangle.
- Shutter set at 1/50 and polarizer filter used.
- All shot in 25p mode.
- Encoded with H264 codec at 6000 Kb/s vbr data rate.
- Resolution 1280x720.
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Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region in Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482. The town, nestled on a high sloping hillside, retains much of its picturesque medieval aspect, only slightly marred by the large car parks below the town. It hosts the University of Urbino, founded in 1506, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Urbino. Its best-known architectural piece is the Palazzo Ducale, rebuilt by Luciano Laurana.
Many great artists of the past were born in Urbino, including Bramante, Federico Barocci (an important precursor of the Baroque style) and Raphael.
(cit. wikipedia)
- All shot with Canon HV20 camcorder with Raynox HD 7000 Pro wideangle.
- Shutter set at 1/50 and polarizer filter used.
- All shot in 25p mode.
- Encoded with H264 codec at 6000 Kb/s vbr data rate.
- Resolution 1280x720.
!! PS3 - XBox 360 compatible !!
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Grazie ancora, ciao.
Spero un giorno di riuscire a fare qualcosa di simile...
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Non penso comunque sia niente di eccezionale. Certo è che io non sono un professionista e anche solo un anno fa mi sognavo di fare una cosa simile quindi, forza e coraggio! :)
Grazie, ciao.
Maybe a Neutral filter will help so much in there.
Please can you explain why I'd lose many details with those settings? Thanks.
With a small sensor the lenses hits the sharpest level faster than for example 35mm sensor. With a full frame camera you will get the sharpest level at about F/8 to F/11. With a small sensor like a crop camera of 1.6x you normally get it at F/5.6 to F/8. And i "suppose" that with a very small sensor like HV20 the sharpest level has to come at about F/2.8 to F/4. Please tell me if i'm worng, not trying to talk about evidence, i'm trying to learn.
So if you stop the shuttle to 1/50 without a ND filter the camcorder goes so high closing the lens and i think you loose many sharpness but you win DOF (with small sensor this is not so important).
If you stop your camera at 1/50 and F/8 you never find images so bright? i see in you videos that is not your problem, i see there are more dark than bright, so maybe i'm wrong don't know.
Now, what I'd like to know is about the loss of definition you claimed. Apart from the darkness of my videos, is it really true that shooting in daylight, openspace, I lose resolution with shutter set at 1/50???
Thanks, bye.
I have a full frame camera, and usually my lens hits the sharpness level at about F/9-F/11, and when lens are so close at F/22 loses so much sharpness and converts it to Depth of field.
If you shot at shutter 1/50 and F/8, F/7...etc... in a bright day first you will loose sharp if lens are so closed. And second, if lens are limited to F/8 and stoped at 1/50 the light that takes the sensor will be so much and you will lose information in bright zones.
So like you say, when you normally shot outdoors you takes very bright videos that later you darken in a post process, but in my opinion it's better that you take it normal before, to avoid losing information from dark and bright.
If you like the blur effect that 1/50 does it's better you put a light stopper with a Neutral density filter in lens to find a F/4 and 1/50 without taking very bright images. I saw that you uses polarizer, maybe it help stoping down the light too, i never used with a camera.
Do you like the polarizer effect, please comment something about it, i'm thinking in buy one.
thanks and see you :)
Well, HV20 has an automatic ND filter inside that keeps the iris from closing too much even in particolar bright light conditions; it's stops more or less at F/5.6 and in that condition image will not loose resolution and definition either, even when shutter is set at 1/50. If you have watched all my videos you should have seen they're rich in color and brightness even thought the resolution in vimeo is only 1280x720 and movies are heavily compressed.
I also tried to set shutter to automatic setting and I noticed that most of the times the camera sets it to 1/50... :)
I bought the polarizer filter to keep the lens safe from sun rays, reflections and because when correctly used, it gives more richness to colors that appears vivid and clearer.
That's all for now. Bye.
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