GH3 Zenmuse Questions

Hi,

I have a couple of questions about the Zenmuse for GH3 i anyone can help.

I've just installed and it all seems to work as it should on the bench.

My questions:


  1. On its startup procedure when it checks its roll it seems to hit the camera. Is this normal?
  2. What do you all do for camera settings - do you use DJI's camera settings or do you use your own? There doesn't seem to be any mention about settings for stills?
  3. What is the HDMI Switch used for - i can't see the point or am i missing the point!!

Thanks
 

hbarchini

Member
Hi...
1) yes
2) I use my own settings... For video and still
3) hahahahahaha turn on and off don't know what you need to do with the video off... But is there...
 

sk8brd

Member
captain. make sure there are no wires coming in contact with your gimbal when gimbal turned off. make sure it spins freely in all axis's. if your shooting video use manual mode- set your shutter to double your frame rate. 24fps would be 50th shutter 30fps would be 60th shutter 60fps would be 120th shutter. using 200th shutter speed for video is a bad move unless your going for a saving private ryan staccato look the motion would be terrible and jumpy- don't know why they would recommend that unless you were maxed out on your aperture and at iso 100. basically adjust iso or aperture till you got the correct exposure using shutter speed determined by frame rate. if you adjusted iso and aperture but still get over exposure then up the shutter or use nd filter-but that's not recomended for zen by dji to use filter's-throw's off balance.for photo settings i personally would use minimum 100th shutter to minimize any motion blur or shake blur from vibrations and adjust iso and aperture till you get good exposure and have enough depth of field. if you go auto mode-like shutter priority then set you iso to auto and you shutter speed to double your frame rate and let you camera select aperture. there is really no exact answer it depends on your available light you could also go aperture priority mode-prolly better select f8-10 and let the camera select settings but f8-10 is typically around the sharpest apertures on a lens. or just go full auto mode up to you.
 
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deluge2

Member
Thanks for this practical video mode setup advice!

Steve

captain. make sure there are no wires coming in contact with your gimbal when gimbal turned off. make sure it spins freely in all axis's. if your shooting video use manual mode- set your shutter to double your frame rate. 24fps would be 50th shutter 30fps would be 60th shutter 60fps would be 120th shutter. using 200th shutter speed for video is a bad move unless your going for a saving private ryan staccato look the motion would be terrible and jumpy- don't know why they would recommend that unless you were maxed out on your aperture and at iso 100. basically adjust iso or aperture till you got the correct exposure using shutter speed determined by frame rate. if you adjusted iso and aperture but still get over exposure then up the shutter or use nd filter-but that's not recomended for zen by dji to use filter's-throw's off balance.for photo settings i personally would use minimum 100th shutter to minimize any motion blur or shake blur from vibrations and adjust iso and aperture till you get good exposure and have enough depth of field. if you go auto mode-like shutter priority then set you iso to auto and you shutter speed to double your frame rate and let you camera select aperture. there is really no exact answer it depends on your available light you could also go aperture priority mode-prolly better select f8-10 and let the camera select settings but f8-10 is typically around the sharpest apertures on a lens. or just go full auto mode up to you.
 


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