Avoiding blur in FDR-AX43

[EivindK]

What are the best settings for avoiding blurry footage on the FDR-AX43 when you're walking and moving the camera?

E.g. walking down a street, focusing the camera on various things as you walk, moving the camera around, occasionally subjects might be in movement too. Not heavy movement like you'd see in sports, but for normal, busy everyday scenes.

Any suggestions for the best settings would be great!

[IamNic]

Hello @EivindK,

the quicker you expose per image, the less blurry each frames exposure will be. 

Usually when filming you will want to go by the 180 degree shutter angle rule (meaning you expose half as long as a frame is later displayed in the video, so for 25fps you go with 1/50th of a second and for 50fps you go with 1/100th of a second).

If you still feel like it is too blurry that way, you can expose even quicker, but be aware, that if you expose e.g. 1/100th of a second while filming 25fps 3/4 of any movement will not be recorded which might lead to a video which feels "choppy".

You have to find a middle ground where the blur is acceptable for you but not too much of whatever is happening per frame is "not recorded" due to the short timeframe the frame is exposed.

- Nic

[Piscie]

The best way to reduce the blur is to adjust the exposure of the camera. This link will help you in adjusting the settings: https://bit.ly/3rYNqDF.

[EivindK]

Thank you for the responses so far! I thought motion blur had more to do with shutter speed than exposure, but I might need to read up again! Still very gradually learning to use the handycam.

But one question. Does the steady shot settings affect blurriness/choppiness at all? Or is it only the exposure?

[IamNic]

Hello @EivindK,

if anything the Steady Shot would help with blur (reduce it), as in the case of the FDR AX43 it is an optical image stabilization, not a software solution (in active mode).

- Nic

[HannahEd01]

Hi EivindK,

The steady shot's main functionality is to compensate for camera shake, so it should not be the cause.

Regards,

Hannah