I’m shooting a themepark (z8 advice)

[gethin]

Which is out of my jobbing comfort zone.  I’ve done it before but 10+ years ago and honestly kinda fluked it: like manually focus pulling on people zooming down slides.

They want stills and video.  There’s a bunch of things I need to test but thought I’d canvas opinion

I have Nikon ed 300mm f2.8 and vrii 70-200 f2.8. Using the zoom previously I found the autofocus a bit shit - especially with subject approaching camera, and that was with stills.  I’m assuming this is because it’s not native z mount (I have ftz1). Do I have a hope in hell of either of these handling video af with fast moving subjects?  Any advice on modes would be appreciated.  
 

Nraw:  Just seen premiere beta supports nraw.  I’m thinking of shooting raw and extracting stills from the 8k files.  Is this a terrible idea?  I have done this with 8k h265 but the stills are kinda nasty. (I’ll shoot high shutter speed/small shutter angle). I have no idea of raw workflow either.  

was planning on handing out insta 360 to people too to get some action and pov stuff but this footage looks super video-y. Are there any action cams that might cut better with z8?   

 

 

 

[Ilkka Nissila]

10 hours ago, gethin said:

Which is out of my jobbing comfort zone.  I’ve done it before but 10+ years ago and honestly kinda fluked it: like manually focus pulling on people zooming down slides.

They want stills and video.  There’s a bunch of things I need to test but thought I’d canvas opinion

I have Nikon ed 300mm f2.8 and vrii 70-200 f2.8. Using the zoom previously I found the autofocus a bit shit - especially with subject approaching camera, and that was with stills.  I’m assuming this is because it’s not native z mount (I have ftz1). Do I have a hope in hell of either of these handling video af with fast moving subjects?  Any advice on modes would be appreciated.  
 

Nraw:  Just seen premiere beta supports nraw.  I’m thinking of shooting raw and extracting stills from the 8k files.  Is this a terrible idea?  I have done this with 8k h265 but the stills are kinda nasty. (I’ll shoot high shutter speed/small shutter angle). I have no idea of raw workflow either.  

was planning on handing out insta 360 to people too to get some action and pov stuff but this footage looks super video-y. Are there any action cams that might cut better with z8?   

With F-mount lenses the AF won't be great during video but it should be OK for stills for the most part. I don't think focus pulling by hand with autofocus stills lenses (F-mount) is going to be easy. Practice with the same kind of subjects helps.

For video AF, native lenses do best. Most Z mount Nikkors also can be programmed for linear manual focusing.

Raw video takes up a lot of storage very quickly. 

 

[PPNS]

sounds to me like you’re doing a shoot that’s meant to be done by multiple crew members as a 1 man band. 

i already think you’re setting yourself up to fail. Depending on what you’re invoicing and whatever budget you’re going with, you might even skew expectations further for clients and other workers in the field.