PD150 Training Series

I’ve produced a short training series on the Sony PD150 camera for Winchester university over summer. Don’t know your shutter speed from your frame rate? Wondering why camera operators are obsessed with zebras? Perhaps this could be just the thing.

Regardless of whether you own a PD150, something better or something worse the videos are designed to painlessly introduce you to the concepts inside all cameras and are broken into bitesize chunks.

Video 1:
Unless you’re a student at Winchester University an introduction to how to book kit is probably worth skipping this one.

Video 2:
Any cameraman worth his salt should know how to efficiently set up a tripod. This is demonstrated here with a libec TH650DV.

Video 3:
An introduction to the basic functions of the DV cameras such as powering the camera, different camera modes and where camera video outputs are.

Video 4:
The simplest functions camera framing are discussed… Zooming and Focusing

Video 5:An operator must know how to adjust the light levels of their camera and the reference changes to set them correctly. Key controls for doing so (iris, gain, shutter speed, ND filters and zebra) are all explained.

Video 6:
Good images mean nothing without good sound. Here I explain how to go about basic mic recording on the Sony range

Video 7:
A little bit of information about timecode, tape and recording formats