First camera lesson

On Friday the 18th of September my class had our first professional camera lesson. We started off by setting up the tripod and making sure that the spirit levels were balanced on the top part of it, this is so that the angle of the camera isn't crooked when filming. After making sure that the tripod is in place and the locks on the legs are secure, we were able to go onto the camera work. In our lesson we used three different types of cameras the Canon 5D, Sony FS100 and Sony NX5. The Canon 5D is particularly good for shooting high quality movies or scenes. The Sony NX5 is used in news interviews and immediate filming, due to the fact that all you have to do is take it out of the case, turn it on and it will be ready for filming immediately. Whereas, with the two other cameras you need to put it together and make sure that it is set up for your using. After setting the cameras up on the tripod we were able to control the zooming, saturation and use the white balance.
I learnt that it is very important to use the white balance whilst filming from the inside to outside, as the colours of the trees and the surrounding don't get portrayed in the way we see them with our eyes. We do this by focusing the camera on a white balance and then we had to press the 'WHT BLNC' button, after this you start filing your scene. It was very useful to learn the basics of each of these camera's as it gave me knowledge and understanding on how to simply use a professional camera.