Chris Soreide

3.5 hours? Going to be a quite a few coffees before shooting then. But thanks for the reply. Think we'll store the monitors someplace warmer next time.

The night before it was kept inside a air conditioned room that probably held about 77°F. It was taken out maybe three hours before the shoot and was exposed to the heat all the time. We were thinking the same, but the shapes created by the condensation almost looked like someone had pressed in the display. At the same time, the condensation keept increasing and decreasing for the next 2 hours we used it, before It completely went away. By the way, little correction, It was maybe around 93°F outside.

I was at a shoot yesterday and during the first shoot the Panasonic BT-LH900A LCD monitor we used suddenly got a heck loads of condensation on the inside of the screen. The shoot took place in Singapore, so the climate is very tropical and guess it was around 100°F. It might just be a coincidence, but this problem happened not too long after we connected it to an external battery. Anyone had the same problem or know what might be the reason? Thanks Chris Soreide

No thoughts or ideas too share? :)

Greeting people. I will be doing my Diploma film in about two month time and im now into a very experimentalt stage of the preproduction. The story will contain alot of "dream" sequences where there will be used alot of slow motion shots and this is why I wonder if anyone have any spesial experience doint that with this camera. I remember reading somewere that if you shoot in 1080 50i, convert it to 1080 60p and then convert it again to 25p, it will look quite good when you speed it down. This is when shoot with a quite open shutter, that is. But we are thinking of using primelenses and shoting with 1080 25F, which so far is something I haven't tried that much. Any suggestions and experiences to share? Cheers Chris

Yupp, It's really true what is said here. You will learn so much different stuff that you would never learn in a film school and the more productions you encounter, the more grips/gaffers do you meet and trust me, everyone work differently so you always learn something. Remember though, be very humble when going in as a Jr. grip for the first time. Always do what they ask you to do and don't try to do anyting big without being told so. Irritating the gaffer on the first day is a bad start :) Prepare youself for endless hours of roling extention cables and fixing the C-stands, at least what I did on my first locations shoots.