Today, as excited as we were to finally touch a 4-figure sum of a video camera. They looked as professional as you can get for a college. We were spoken to by the media technicians who over look and take to caring for the quality of the filming equipment. We were given a few cameras and needed pieces such as batteries and memory cards. We were then instructed and shown how to insert them into the cameras appropriately, a point made was inserting 2 memory cards at the same time to reduce the risk of filling up a card and then not having enough space to continue filming. The cameras had all little details that could be adjusted and changed with the aid of buttons, such as the lighting, if there isn't enough natural lighting in a room then this could be changed. Also, the lense of the camera has a manual focusing rim which allows us to manually handle the filming instead of putting it on the easy task of automatic.
Other important factors of the camera include knowing about the battery power left and sim card storage space left. Both of these are accessible by pressing the index button various times to find out which one is wanted. This would be useful for when filming outside of college, to check before hand if enough time and space is available to do shots.
Another thing we were taught was how to use a tripod, which simply enough was being able to adjust the legs, and importantly being able to place the camera on the tripod and locking it in so that it won't fall. This has to be done to insure that no damage to the cameras is done.
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