Began my 2021 M2P flying season yesterday and was scanning through the images and video last evening when a past forum discussion got me to thinking about ND filters.
I typically use a Freewell variable ND filter set to "0" for stills and a higher darker filter setting for video to achieve the inverse of the fps for shutter speed (i.e. 30fps and 1/60 shutter speed). The only problem with that is I need to land and adjust the filter when switching between stills and video or vice versa.
Today I took the variable ND filter off and set each of the stills and video to manual...for video I used ISO 100, aperture 4.5 and shutter speed to a higher value than the inverse of the fps to the point the EV was 0 and the sky was not blown out (no zebra stripes).
The resulting 4k video looks fine to me....am I missing something here when it comes to using a shutter speed that prevents blown out skys rather than using an ND filter?
I typically use a Freewell variable ND filter set to "0" for stills and a higher darker filter setting for video to achieve the inverse of the fps for shutter speed (i.e. 30fps and 1/60 shutter speed). The only problem with that is I need to land and adjust the filter when switching between stills and video or vice versa.
Today I took the variable ND filter off and set each of the stills and video to manual...for video I used ISO 100, aperture 4.5 and shutter speed to a higher value than the inverse of the fps to the point the EV was 0 and the sky was not blown out (no zebra stripes).
The resulting 4k video looks fine to me....am I missing something here when it comes to using a shutter speed that prevents blown out skys rather than using an ND filter?