Wide angle lens help

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Dr.DRE

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I have been looking to buy a wide angle lens lately and I was wondering if they help with stabilizing the shot and making it look smoother (shakiness). When we film with a tripod its fine, but for follows or just holding the cam in are hands, the image looks all blurry. Like the skier is not clear and other fast moving objects look bad. Thanks a lot!
 
Yes it will help, but dont expect to have smooth follow cams just because you put on a wider lens.
 
I think what you really need is a DIY (no idea what this stands for). there's a thread on here about ones that NS'ers have built. A wide angle lens would make filming easier but won't reduce shakiness in any sort of way.
 
diy is do it yourself, which really doesn't make sense how you said it, you may be talking about a steadicam, which will help, or you could just train yourself to have a steady hand haha
 
Thanks! Its just that it looks like their is a delay on the skier ( like a shadow image following him ) when we don't film with tripod. That is what we mainly want to fix. We can fix the shakiness of the follows with practice.
 
just use your tripod as a ghetto glidecam. its not as good as the real thing, but it helps infinitely.
 
I dont think that the handles will help as much as steadiness as a DIY glidecam kinda thing. I made one and it's pretty legit it's in the other thread
 
Increase your shutter speed to at least twice your frame rate. For example, if you're shooting 30 frames per second, set your shutter to at least 1/60th.
 
My camera does not have this option since it is a lower end HD camera. Thanks because we might upgrade soon anyway.
 
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