6 Basic Camera Settings You Need To Know

[@BigBossLaxman]

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[@Menapho]

Absolutely one of the most through and simple explanations I’ve ever learned (that’s many) it should become a standard 😆. Well done 👍

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[@Pierorocks]

Wish I had this video in film school! Love how you simply you explain these concepts while also using current films to show them in action!

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[@TheNegative]

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[@Willful_Long]

Thank you for this video! I've been watching your videos learning as much about the industry as possible and I learned something new about my digital camera today lol I've been trying to work it manually but your explanation helped me parse some things that make it different from shooting 35mm.

[@yetanotherbassdude]

Awesome video and a great primer on camera settings. Just a small point on film stocks though, but I think most film stocks can be pushed or pulled in developing to allow for shooting at different ASAs besides the "box" speed, and it's not uncommon to use colour correcting filters to shoot tungsten balanced film in daylight or vice versa. Still a lot more of a faff than changing a setting on a digital camera, but also very doable with some planning!

[@SkeletonCreeper03]

yes! most cinematographers push or pull film for creative reasons rather than for exposure. color correcting filters are very commonly used for film, but a downside is there's a drop in exposure, about 1 stop or so. an interesting trend that's been more common recently is for a gritty film look, so they push 500T by 1-2 stops, and since tungsten is not as common nowadays, they have to use an 85 filter. i think it works really well in terms of setting exposure on set since pushing and using a filter cancels the exposure differences out, so there's less math to do!

[@ConstantThrowing]

There's some big film/ director who was forced to do this because of accidental overexposure on a bunch of important rushes that couldn't be shot again... but I can't for life of me remember the film/ director.

[@yetanotherbassdude]

@@SkeletonCreeper03 that makes a lot of sense, actually. Do you know of any specific films that have gone with that gritty 500T look then? I'm only a stills photographer, but I shoot quite a bit of film and I actually have a couple of rolls of respooled Vision 3 500T and an 85A filter in transit to me right now, so I'd love to get some inspiration for my new film stock when it arrives!

[@yetanotherbassdude]

@@ConstantThrowing the story rings a bell but I'm not sure where from either. Shooting film seems like you're basically shooting blind though, as you're essentially relying entirely on your exposure calculations, preproduction camera testing, and your previous experience when you have no way of truly knowing how a shot will look until the next day when the film comes back from the development lab. I know Roger Deakins has talked in interviews about all the sleepless nights he had while shooting film, just worrying if the crucial and impossible to recreate shot he'd done that day would actually come out the way he'd hoped in the dailies the next day. I'm sure shooting digitally is still incredibly hard to do well, but shooting on film just seems like you're setting the cinematographer game to "ultra nightmare" difficulty!

[@SkeletonCreeper03]

@@yetanotherbassdude Two of my favorite movies that pushed 500T by 1-2 stops are Phantom Thread and Uncut Gems. Phantom Thread looks more accurate in terms of what pushing film looks like since they didn't do any digital corrections. They color timed it instead, which if you've used Davinci Resolve before, is basically just Offset controls. There's no way to change contrast and saturation, so other than exposure and color balance corrections, the end result is almost exactly like what was shot on set. Uncut Gems on the other hand was digitally graded, so the pushing process mostly made the grain structure more pronounced. I also shoot film photos! The film in my camera now is also 500T, and I can't wait to finish shooting on it and send it off to get developed! I have pushed stills film before, but for higher ISO film, I'm not that big of a fan. The one time I liked pushed film was when I shot ISO 200 film (rated at 400 and pushed one stop). The grain isn't distracting, and the contrast was really interesting in a good way. I don't have an 85 filter since, for now, I'm using a camera that my friend borrowed to me, so I've been shooting under sodium vapor lamps or setting my lights to 3200k (I mostly shoot at night). But hey, a benefit of that is that I won't lose any stops of light!

[@KyleFosse]

Great explanation - very informative! Two quick things: 10:04 - 24fps doesn't give "the illusion of motion at a speed which is the same as that which we experience in real life." The human eye/brain can perceive motion at around 50-100fps equivalent. 24FPS paired with a 1/48 or 180deg shutter speed gives the illusion of motion blur which is similar to what we experience in real life. 24 is just the classic standard that we're used to seeing in movies. 10:42 - Shutter speed is what impacts exposure - not frame rate. Yes, the two are generally adjusted in unison, but not always. If the rest of the camera settings remain the same, changing the frame-rate will not affect the exposure. Again, thanks for the video. It's obvious you put a tremendous amount of work into your production value and information.

[@shaunlaisfilm]

Worth viewing, enjoyed the content. In my opinion, the best camera setting is: getting to know your camera & when one get to know their camera, manual or auto is only a step, not the standard. Read Ansel Adams' "The Camera" or any old American Cinematographer magazine & it is all about the photographer or cinematographer/director of photography, understanding what their camera can do. We are in a modern world where cameras have become technological answers instead of a an extension that encourages thoughtful techniques that allow the photographer/cinematographer/director of photography to learn about their cameras.

[@Kennethmarchant9705]

Beautifully video and great information. A huge thank you 🙏!!!

[@FergVision]

Great stuff, love how you explain each setting and also how it applies to filming/motion, not just rehashing a photography settings video. The amount of times I have to explain to people why I need an ND filter when filming, often times to people who work in video, is shocking. I filmed a wedding this summer and the other guy I was shooting with was just free-balling his Canon R5 with auto shutter in the brightest day of the year, no NDs. I had never worked with him and was also just filling in so I didn't ask him about it, guessing he just never uses one. I see this a lot when I pick up weddings or event work and it's totally understandable, Likely just don't care or don't know. I have definitely watched wedding how to videos where they say the clients can't tell so just don't use NDS and use aperture priority mode. I kinda hate it. I don't think filming anything with auto shutter on a DSLR or mirrorless camera or even iPhone looks very good regardless of the purpose tho, unless of course you have a specific reason to jack or drag the shutter or want a true "video-style" look. I Can't imagine it's a thing on sets you work on, but you never know.

[@ashtonsouter4965]

Great stuff! I would love to see a Greig Fraser cinematography breakdown 😁

[@NguyenHuy-hl3nv]

9:21 - I'm surprised since this is the first time I heard that fps affects on the exposure. Could anyone explain more for me on this?

[@potatofuryy]

If you shoot at a higher framerate the sensor/film is exposed for a shorter period of time. For example if you shoot at 30fps the sensor can be exposed for 1/30s, while if you shoot at 60fps the maximum exposure time is 1/60s. Since 1/30 is twice as long as 1/60, the 30fps video can be twice as bright as the 60fps one since the sensor can receive twice as much light.

[@rustneversleeps85]

Thanks, on point. Been looking for years for a decent video to explain these things.

[@Elassyahmed]

Awesome video. Quick question: my understanding is that for digital cameras (DSLRs, Mirrorless, and cinema cameras) Shutter speed when shooting video is actually the processor's readout speed of the digital sensor, i.e. how many times per second the digital sensor is read per second, a shutter speed of 1/50th is read 50 times per second. Is that correct?

[@todorbokan123]

yep, that's right!

[@TechnoBabble]

That is definitely not right. It's simply the amount of time the processor is reading out the amount of light hitting the photosites. Sensor readout speed is a different thing and effects the rolling shutter artifacts that the camera produces.

[@DobyWan]

Dude this is top tier education honestly.

[@howardron543]

I kinda got most of this one... But i will most likely forget it in a few minutes... Love your vids

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[@RideWithBala]

Thanks for ur Information 🥰🥰🙏

[@abduh-vn7tm]

I wonder can i find these type of settings used by specific filmmakers such as Denis Villenueve, David Fincher, and Chris Nolan? Their films are so distinctive while you can feel its their film from the very first frame.

[@colonelcrackerz2320]

Great video 🙂

[@antoinepetrov]

7:32 Are those couple of frames from a film or just a random video?

[@Motionphile]

Thanks for showing the insight of cinecamera also 🙌🤩

[@benjamincorteslyon6777]

Amazing video... would be great if you talk about lightmeter!

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[@colinbelanger]

thank you, good explanation

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[@TechnoBabble]

Quick correction, essentially no digital cameras around today use a mechanical shutter during video. They all use an electronic shutter, which is not something physical that blocks the light.

[@KEVIN-nf9oh]

Question: I don't have access to a digital camera but is there a way I get to try these settings on my smartphone? Is that possible?

[@maelc9206]

You can play with some, like the ISO, by searching for a "pro" mode in the photo app But smartphones aren't really the same things as cameras, it's like wanting to learn how to drive a racecar but in a kart. You can still learn a few things of course, and some movies were famously shot on smartphones. Also, I would advise you to download a dedicated professionnal application, google should tell you which one to use

[@yetanotherbassdude]

Depends on the phone and the camera(s) it has. Maybe just try and set your phone camera to a "pro" or "manual" mode if it has one and see what settings options that allows? You're unlikely to get them all, but even a phone camera has all the same basic components as a pro cine or stills camera so you should be able to change some things to get a feel for it.

[@KEVIN-nf9oh]

@@maelc9206 Thanks for the pointers! Appreciate it.

[@KEVIN-nf9oh]

@@yetanotherbassdude I dug in and found a pro mode and it has lots of settings to play with. Some I hadn't thought to look for (ISO, Exposure, Manual Focus, Temperature). Thank you very much for highlighting this!

[@AcrossTheStereo]

Can anyone explain to me why it is called 0.3 for an aperture of 1 stop? Why exactly 0.3 ?

[@skshariworsaad6381]

Thnx a lot! Im totally new to all this so plz excuse my ignorance. Can anyone plz tell me why higher fps drops the exposure?

[@natthecat2004]

When you film 24fps the shutter speed should be set to 1/50sec (1/48sec if your camera has that) in order for the motion blur to look natural to our eyes. When shooting at 48fps you have to also double your shutter speed to 1/100sec. The faster shutter speed lets in less light, but the motion blur should look natural at that framerate. I almost gave up on filming a couple years ago when all of my drone footage looked like garbage, until I learned the rule of doubling your framerate to get your shutter speed.

[@skshariworsaad6381]

@@natthecat2004 thnx a lot.. now i get it.. I assume the reason for doubling the shutter in relation to the fps (i.e 1/48 Shutter for 48 fps) is because of the shutter angle being 180°, right?

[@LycanVisuals]

May everyone be free from the shackles of auto mode (including myself)

[@quentinmackenzie4650]

I thought this channel was called "In Depth Cine"

[@OctaviusGeorge]

I still do not understand how Shutter speed affects motion on a DSLR since the frame rate is fixed

[@curioustill]

The frame rate merely tells you how many still images appear in one second. It also dictates the MAXIMUM duration the shutter can be open. You can have 24 fps, but only open the shutter for 1/500 second if you want. In that case there will be close to zero motion blur and the image may be quite dark (unless you compensate with other variables). Or you can keep the shorter open for 1/48 or 1/50 seconds (half of one frame, meaning 180 degrees shutter angle) and achieve a more natural motion blur!

[@bluewaver1216]

Hey! You sound like another youtuber lazy masquerade, is that you as well?

[@F1lmtwit]

Too Push, or Pull?

[@VadimOm]

Pro photographer here, shoot most of my work in aperture priority, this video is bs from the beginning, your don't need to shoot in manual with modern cameras lol

[@potatofuryy]

This video isn’t about photography. lol

[@AlleyKatPr0]

So, hire an intern and let them deal with it? Nice.

[@NicolaCagol]

Christians have the Holy Bible. Filmmakers have In Depth Cine

[@fremekwame]

This is SO SO COMPREHENSIVE