On My Nizo S series camera, you can set the shutter to full open...presumably this allows you to make long exposures in time lapse etc...like SLR stills photography. This will give me the blurry images, long trails of headlights from cars etc. But the Nizo also has Half open shutter option....what sort of effect would i gain from this....whats its main use for.
would i simply use half shutter to get more lighjt to the film?
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Variable Shuttter - Nizo
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The wider the shutter angle - ie. 220 degrees or whatever, the more light hits the film, which can produce blurriness with fast moving objects, but it's not that bad as you have so many images per second. This is called XLS, sometimes appended to Super8 camera names to indicate "eXtra Light Shutter"
Smaller angles, such as 150 degrees are good when shooting action, for the sharpest possible images and when shooting something really bright, (unusual in S8). It reduces light hitting film, so more light is needed. It gives better results, but is a luxury, as for most of us lack of light is a standard problem.
My Super8 camera is the last and most sophisticated of the Nizos, the 6080, and it doesn't have an adjustable shutter angle, so I am surprised you say yours has. Are you sure? I have heard of people getting confused about this before, thinking the over/underexposure control was opening and closing the shutter.
My Nizo is 220 deg. such as all XLS cameras. Canon 1014XLS has adjustable control, either 150 or 220 degs, which is unusual.
Smaller angles, such as 150 degrees are good when shooting action, for the sharpest possible images and when shooting something really bright, (unusual in S8). It reduces light hitting film, so more light is needed. It gives better results, but is a luxury, as for most of us lack of light is a standard problem.
My Super8 camera is the last and most sophisticated of the Nizos, the 6080, and it doesn't have an adjustable shutter angle, so I am surprised you say yours has. Are you sure? I have heard of people getting confused about this before, thinking the over/underexposure control was opening and closing the shutter.
My Nizo is 220 deg. such as all XLS cameras. Canon 1014XLS has adjustable control, either 150 or 220 degs, which is unusual.
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Simon R
No, i dont mean you can adjust the shutter angle on the camera.....
Its a Nizo S800....shutter angle on this is 170....
My question just concerned the fact that you can leave the shutter permantly Half Open or Fully Open..........the control for this is on the side of the hand Grip. So as you say, i can get blurry images...goood for time lapse of traffic at night etc. I just wondered what the Half Open shutter would really be useful for? I'm intereste din finding out all the functions of my S800 camera. Oh...by the way..the control for sdjusting the shutter is the fading in and out lever....!
Cheers again.
Its a Nizo S800....shutter angle on this is 170....
My question just concerned the fact that you can leave the shutter permantly Half Open or Fully Open..........the control for this is on the side of the hand Grip. So as you say, i can get blurry images...goood for time lapse of traffic at night etc. I just wondered what the Half Open shutter would really be useful for? I'm intereste din finding out all the functions of my S800 camera. Oh...by the way..the control for sdjusting the shutter is the fading in and out lever....!
Cheers again.
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Yemi
Hi.
The shutter control options on the Nizo S-series cameras are awesome. Most of the S-series cameras have a normal shutter angle of ~150 degrees which gives you a shutter speed of about 1/57 @ 24fps. They obviously won't perform as well in low light as a camera with an XL shutter but the faster shutter speed means less motion blur, something I really appreciate when shooting moving subjects hand-held.
Placing the shutter control in the halfway position halves the shutter speed. The result is very crisp footage with a slight strobing motion effect (very common in music video). The iris must be opened by an additional f-stop reucing depth of field (the auto-exposure mode will do this automatically).
You can lock the shutter in the halfway position for extended exposures. Combined with the excellent built in time lapse intervalometer you can then expose single frames from 1/8 sec to 1 full minute!
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Yemi
The shutter control options on the Nizo S-series cameras are awesome. Most of the S-series cameras have a normal shutter angle of ~150 degrees which gives you a shutter speed of about 1/57 @ 24fps. They obviously won't perform as well in low light as a camera with an XL shutter but the faster shutter speed means less motion blur, something I really appreciate when shooting moving subjects hand-held.
Placing the shutter control in the halfway position halves the shutter speed. The result is very crisp footage with a slight strobing motion effect (very common in music video). The iris must be opened by an additional f-stop reucing depth of field (the auto-exposure mode will do this automatically).
You can lock the shutter in the halfway position for extended exposures. Combined with the excellent built in time lapse intervalometer you can then expose single frames from 1/8 sec to 1 full minute!
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Yemi
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