Sony NX5 Camera Lesson

Learning about the Sony NX5

Thursday 18th Film and Media lesson took place in the Hurtwood's television studio, the class was split into groups of 5, between 3 Sony NX5 Pro-Camcorders and 3 professional tripods. The class as a whole was taught the demographics of the Camcorder and tripod, and how to operate them.

Learning how to use the multiple focus, exposure and aperture features, and learning about White balance, something that I've never actually gone over before, so i did learn something fairly new today. Going over the operations was something that the members of the group took in turns to do.

2012 modle of the Sony NX5 Pro-Camcorder

At the end of the lesson, we were given the task of using the camera to come up with a shot, implementing all of the techniques that we had been taught that day, and as a group we decided to implement some ideas from the 'camera angles' lesson from the previous day.

Are final shot consisted of a glass mug on a doorframe, sounds boring, but we managed to get in just right, dim, but sharp enough so that the teacher could see the features of the doorframe and the drink inside the mug, having drained the inside. The shot was taken near to the ground, but the camera was above the mug at an angle, looking down onto it. We were told that we may have need to take a further look at white balance, but he complimented that it was very "moody".