Nikon D90 Motion Test

Many of our video tests with Nikon D90 displayed a bad case of the wobblies, most likely due to a CMOS rolling shutter problem. Read our full, comprehensive review of the D90's video capabilities here: http://bit.ly/tcxjh

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Science & Technology

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• Nikon
• D90
• DSLR
• SLR
• video
• test

[jmwsee]

I'm a professional videographer uploading to Vimeo and I use the Nikon D90 this camera has its flaws like others equipment but this video is off by a lot. First off.. He does not have the camera set to max quality and second.. He is PURPOSELY shaking the camera of course your going to get these results with a low frame rate DSLR. Watch many other videos and you'll see that the D90 is not as bad as most every says it is.

[camcorderinfodotcom]

@jmwsee We did shoot at the maximum video quality setting on the D90 for this video, but the video was compressed for the YouTube upload. You are correct that we did purposely pan the camera back and forth quickly, but we thought that was obvious. That's the whole idea behind a rolling shutter effect—during quick pans, the camera's sensor can't catch up to the image fast enough, so the bottom and top will bend in different directions. This is a common flaw with DSLRs.

[jmwsee]

@camcorderinfodotcom Well I don't think any videographer would actually shake the camera vigorously so I don't see that too much of a problem.

[camcorderinfodotcom]

@jmwsee That definitely may be true. But we can't simply ignore a problem for that reason. We just want to inform people that it's there and it will occur if you pan back and forth quickly. We've also compared it to newer DSLRs and Nikon has gotten better with its rolling shutter (as have many video-DSLR manufacturers) in the past year.

[jermant2]

They were trying to shake it, because that's what produced the 'bending' effect of the objects (as in the case of the trash can). This is the fundamental flaw with filming video using a camera as opposed to a camcorder, and they were exposing it.

[LTF85199]

it is not a VR issue it is a Processing speed issue. + the sensor signal output speed. CMOS are generally slow for video recording. This is commonly know as the Jello-Effect or the rolling shutter issue, I hope I am correct on this... ?

[DrZeeb]

To everyone complaining, why would you buy this for video? It's a DSLR! Not a camcorder!

[N6600]

@RamiroR thanks for the reply man. i was also told by a friend that cmos sensors were the reason gadgets became cheaper. he said CCD is a much expensive thing to produce.

[RamiroR]

@N6600

Most likely, they wouldn't use CCD for cam phones, they are more energy hungry.

[daveandgoliathstudio]

The Foundry's Rolling Shutter plugin for Nuke is very effective a getting rid of this problem.

[akanathan]

The only thing keeping me from buying a good dslr to shoot video with.

[henrox555]

quality i like d90 over 5d but i feel this jello effect is more seen in the d90 which sucks for video makers!