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Topic: Holding Our Own spinoff: Brent Schneider Animation Test 2013-06-24

Here's the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHBk4h2S … YoxdrzBvvw

I've stabilized my camera brace with some Lego reinforcements, and as a result the image is less jumpy.  I also shot doubles of more frames and discarded those that were too bright or dim.  I'm learning more about the nature of my camera and why it doesn't produce consistant lighting.  As I hope to minimize this problem even more.  Only four frames out of 47 required any adjustment of the brightness & contrast settings, and with better results as usual.  (Usually just the whites/brights have the brightness variations and adjusting it throws off the bolder colors.)  Anyway, feedback is welcome.

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Re: Holding Our Own spinoff: Brent Schneider Animation Test 2013-06-24

I can see the camera bump problem has really been eradicated! Good job on that!
Also your shooting doubles so that no light flickr is a great idea. What kind of camera do you use, because you will want pretty much all the setting set to manual.

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Re: Holding Our Own spinoff: Brent Schneider Animation Test 2013-06-24

The camera is a Sony CyberShot DSP W570.  unfortunately, the camera, which is otherwise a great device, is limited in the manual settings, which is the cause of most of the problems.

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Re: Holding Our Own spinoff: Brent Schneider Animation Test 2013-06-24

HoldingOurOwn wrote:

The camera is a Sony CyberShot DSP W570.  unfortunately, the camera, which is otherwise a great device, is limited in the manual settings, which is the cause of most of the problems.

You ought to look into a Logitech Webcam Pro 9000.
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Webcam-P … m+pro+9000

I have been using one since 2011 and it has served me very well. You can mount it on a surface and if you use it with either MonkeyJam or any other stop-motion software, all you have to do is click a button on the screen and you don't have to touch the camera itself (reducing the risk of bumps that can come from using an ordinary digital camera). You can also manually control the focus and lighting of the shot so that you not only don't have inconsistent frames, but you can change the focus of the shot to focus on a different subject in the same shot if need be (something I have been doing for the past couple of years)

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Re: Holding Our Own spinoff: Brent Schneider Animation Test 2013-06-24

Right now I don't have the $$$ to invest in anything.  I also had a problem with LogiTech's customer service once; they wouldn't support a defective product I bought from them.  But there's always the future...

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