Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
In this video I'm going to show you some footage I took at my local state park.
The goal was to see what I could do with the 120 fps mode.
Now in the case of the Canon EOS M50 it's not super high quality.
It's at 720p, but it's there.
I'm going to give it a shot.
See how it works...
See if I can get anything interesting out of it.
Now I'm not too used to doing filming like this in general, but I do want to improve.
Try to expand my horizons with video.
Of course, for the sake of this Youtube channel, but in general form an artistic perspective.
Using high frames per second modes has some benefits over standard, like 30 fps.
With 120 it minimizes the movement of your hands while you're panning the camera or whatever.
It also potentially gives it more of a gimbal look to it.
It's a lot smoother in general.
Now, this specific camera stretches out the footage to 30 frames a second approximately
inside the camera.
At the state park I took one of my M50s with the 11-22mm lens.
So the added benefit of a large wide angle lens plus the 120 fps, I was hoping that my
footage would be very smooth in general.
That was the main goal to see how smooth I can do handheld video with this setup.
Settings wise, you want to go into your movie recording quality settings.
And then enable that high frame-rate mode.
At that point it'll be set to that 120 fps mode where it stretches out the video to 30
fps but with those high frame rates.
Now you don't have audio recording in this, and you also don't have auto-focus.
Which I didn't really realize at the time.
I wasn't quite sure if it was focusing, but of course you can prefocus.
And then you can just do manual focus.
In this case manual focus with peaking is pretty nice, that works well.
With the wide angle lens I was trying to get dynamic movements through brush, through any
type of plants that were flowing in the wind.
There were some insects around as well that I didn't quite get perfect focus on most of
the time, but a few of the clips seemed to turn out okay.
Video itself is a whole new thing.
There's a lot to it.
Some of your skills will carry over from photography, but really not too many.
There is so much more to learn.
All of the audio side of things which are huge and very important.
But on the video side as well.
Definitely a lot to learn.
You've got your shutter speeds related to frame per second, and all that.
One quick tip about shutter speed and frames per second.
I was shooting at 120 fps for all of these clips,
so on the shutter speed side of things you generally want to do twice that number.
So 1/240th of a second shutter speed.
It seems to be the best to get the proper blur and proper movement in your video.
That was a fun learning experience.
I definitely want to to use that high frames per second mode in the future.
Now of course the quality perfect, but it's there.
It's definitely usable in my opinion, especially for my simple Youtube videos.
And it's fun to use.
Gives me a little bit of mixture between my standard types of filming plus some smooth
more artistic flowing type of footage that I can put into my videos.
Now I do have a few previous videos that have a little bit of that in there if you noticed,
but anyways...
Fun little practice exercise.
Definitely want to use it more in the future and I hope you enjoyed this video.
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