City Night Lights - Olympus E-PL1 HD video

Shot some night time street lights around Richmond Row in London Ontario. I was testing the Olympus E-PL1 using AF tracking in low light. It did struggle with the 14-42mm kit lens - however I was very impressed with the out of focus circles that could be acheived with this inexpensive and rather limited lens. For one scene I attempted Manual Focus going from the out of focus cab lights, to and in focus scene. However, it took 8 or 10 complete rotations of the focus ring to accomplish that - - - making this lens viirtually useless for that type of focus sweep. The E-PL1 handled low light at 1250 ISO quite nicely for my needs

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Education

Tags:

• City
• Night
• Lights
• Olympus
• E-PL1
• HD
• video
• manual
• focus
• 1250
• ISO

[ElKuku9999]

With video on the camera does it always stay on auto focus or can you change it to manual focus?

[robertwatcher]

@ElKuku9999 - you have the option of AutoFocus or Full Manual Focus

[raldiraldi]

how's your setting in Noise Reduction & Noise Filter?

thanks

[robertwatcher]

@raldiraldi With this video everything was on Auto

[SuperRefine]

nice work!

[robertwatcher]

@SuperRefine Thank you.

[countessb]

This is very nice--L just got my new Olympus e-PL1, and can't wait to post some night shots in Chicago

[bluematter08]

I like how this isn't as grainy in the dark as some of the other digital cameras I've used. This is with the kit lens, that's amazing.

[robertwatcher]

@particlerealities I kind of like the effect on parts of this night time movie. In general I am focusing manually with this kit lens as it does have the out and in motion when finding focus. From videos that I have seen, the new 14-150 and 9-18 Olympus Pen lenses, do not show that and also focus more quickly and more accurately than the kit lens. But I have the kit lens and that is what I have to use best way I can. Thanks for your comment.

[particlerealities]

Cool video! Do you find the random focus hunting (causing random blurring of the video) to be much of a problem? Or does it do this mostly at night? Makes for interesting effects in your video, but could also be a hindrance I think. Your thoughts? I'm looking at buying one, which is why I ask. Thanks for posting!