Day: April 7, 2011

New Nikon Camera

Nikon Releases D5100 HDSLR With Autofocus, Articulating Screen

by Daniel Bruns on http://www.videomaker.com/community/videonews/2011/04/10284-nikon-releases-d5100-hdslr-with-autofocus-articulating-screen/

This article was about companies that are excited to come out with the newest and latest forms of their best products. Some companies such as Nikon, releases their products a bit earlier than other companies. This year, Nikon released their new HDSLR or the D5100. One of the newest features they have on the new Nikon is a 3 inch articulating screen. This enables both high and low angle shots should be much easier and has the ability to rotate 180 degrees. This puts Nikon in the same ball park as the Canon’s 60D and Sony’s Alpha. Like the Sony Alpha, the Nikon has the ability to auto-focus so shooting on the run is easier. Not only has Nikon come out with a new camera, but they came out with a new microphone called the Nikon ME-1 stereo microphone. Since Nikon has released this new camera and microphone, they seem to be taking bigger strides towards making a camera for every amateur and prosumer videographer’s needs.

I learned a lot in this article. My dad has this camera and I can relate a lot to what they are talking about. The auto-focus they talk about works really well and makes taking shots easy of moving objects to take the best photo possible. I knew that Nikon was a good camera but I didn’t know they were in the same ball park as Canon who is an amazing camera and video camera company. I can apply this to this class because our class bought new audio equipment too that is top of the line and should sound a lot better than the audio equipment that we had.

Video Maker Article


I read “Selling Your Green Screen Shots to Your Audience”, By Mike Sullivan, March 2011.
I learned that in order to make green screen shots look real the lighting, the background color, and the editing must all be planned and correct. First make sure that all the lighting in your scene is going to match your graphics in the fore and background. After you have the lighting right focus on what color your backdrop will be. Green screen or blue screen. Use a green screen if you actor has blond hair. Use blue if the color blue is noticeably absent from your actor, (no blue jeans). I could use this information for my commercial or my music video. http://www.videomaker.com/article/14949/