Initially we learnt how to put up the tripod, by lifting it from the centre we were able to keep the three legs the same length. Once we had done that we also had to make the mounting plate be at a certain level, we could control this by unscrewing the hinge below the mounting plate and adjusting the plate until the spirit level was in the centre of the circle. We then tightened up the hinge and were ready to place the camera on top.
To place the camera on we had to hold down a button to allowed the camera to slide on, we then twsited the centre colum lock and the camera was securly in place. Once we re-adjusted the triop we were ready to beging shooting.
We started off by learning how to focus the shot, we did this by zooming close in to the object of intrest and then ensuring it was is best focus by twisting the first nossle. Once we were sure te focus what the best it could be we would zoom back out again. This was to ensure the quality of the footage was at its best. Secondly we learnt how to do a white balance, we did this by zooming into a white piece of paper and the pressing the white balance button this would then adjust the lighting to make it more natural, we did this so that the camera can measure the colour of the lighting and adjust the colours togive an accurate look to the footage, not red or blue.
I really enjoyed learing how to use the camera and look forward to putting my skills to use in the future, but because it was my first try at using a camera there was a lot of information to take in and at times it got confusing, but hopfully I've understood the basics!
This was the camera we used:
The Sony NX5 digital HD camera
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