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WIP: Part 104 #2

Added 2022-07-22 08:17:00 +0000 UTC

There was a surprisingly high skill ceiling with the new camera in the relatively high-action pace of Project Ls, where we move quickly from place to place, and where I shoot a lot of video among the photos.

In practice, it should be 90% identical to my old one, with most of the buttons in the same places; but when shooting, I have this extremely tight muscle memory, and whenever I don't find the exact button/setting wherever I was expecting it to be, my creative mind went all somersaults and forgot what I was about to do. This happened multiple times during the last shoot, and many frames were lost due to it.

Not to whine, as the new systems are at their intended places and work much better than the old ones, especially the camera's autofocus, but man, I really need to use the camera more. A lot more. I need to relearn my muscle memories.

Besides, there were way different tools used, like a variable ND filter (a filter with two polarized filters crossing each other, in short darkening the image for video usage), that seems to mess up with the white balance settings a bit. This is not a big deal, though, as I shoot RAW, so white balance can be changed later on with no loss of quality. It, too, needs to be relearned.

EDIT: To simplify the photography jargon...