1st Camera Workshop

Learning how to set up and use the Cameras

Camera type - Blackmagic URSA mini 

RULES:

• When passing a piece of equipment, the person who wanting the equipment once they have the weight of the equipment says"mine" and the person passing says "yours" when they give up the weight
• pack up nicely so equipment is easy to use.

1) we took the tripod out of the bag, pulled the legs out and placed on the ground 

 

2) The yellow air bubble need to be facing you and then attach the pan hand

The yellow air bubble is the spirt level. 

Twist under near the main part of the tripod 90 degrees, and use the pan hand to adjust. The idea is the have the dote in the circle and that how to know that the tripod is level. And then twist 90 degrees back to tighten.

3) Before adjusting the spirt level, first you want to set the height of the tripod. To adjust height, the bottom of the legs there is the extension locks. Turn all to the side then pull up all the side equally. Then turn the extension locks back to keep at height. If wanting to go higher there are another set on the middle of the legs. 

 

4) On the tripod there is a side lock which is for the head to tilt and can be locked in a tilt position and there is another on the front of the head by the yellow spirt level for the pan lock. 

5) To place the camera on the tripod. Hold camera from the top handle and the rest of the camera with the other hand. The yellow spirt should be facing you, gentle slot the camera into the head of tripod and press the button on the left. Once the camera has slide through and all the camera is on the head, let go of button on the left all on the head there is a lever on the left to twist. The camera is now safely on the tripod. 

 

6) Placing the battery in the back. The Battery has a V in the back this is the slide down onto the back of the camera, it clicks when in place. 

7) Take camera cap lid off, open the side of the camera and turn on. One the lens of the camera are the nozzle. The big one is to zoom in and out and the smaller one is to focus. To the best focus first you must zoom in and then focus from there and then zoom back out. Need to do this in every shot otherwise loses the level of quality. It's also used to emphasis certain things in a scene, like you want a person in deep focus and everything in the background not. It defines the images seen. 

 

8) Blue part on the lens controls the exposure, you have to pinch it and then rotate to control the exposure. Exposure is important because it controls how light and dark a picture as well as different tones in the photos. It also decides the artist decisions of the shot.

9) White balances is easy to use by tapping on the corner of the screen where the 'WB' is then it give you options for where you are. For example if the camera was set for indoor lighting then filming natural day light it makes the film very blue cause the sky makes a blue overcast but when changing the white balances to outdoors the film looks normal.