Apparently young grasshopper has still a lot to learn. I had incredible dive at weeki wachee yesterday benchmarking and testing my goprohero3 black cameras.
I wanted to do apples to apples to apples so bear with me.
Setup:
Bonica HDDV 1080 30fps. Bonica wide angle lens. Bonica red lens filter.
Gopro Hero 3 Black X2. 1080 30fps. Polarpro red lens filters.
Wide angle lens opens incredible range of opportunities to a videographer but I never had to compare it against anything. On this dive it was a huge overkill. Let me demonstrate why.
Never mind the fact that lower image is not autowhite balanced but have a look at top row (both gopros with red lens filter, no protune, auto white balance) vs lower row autowhite balance bonica red filter.
First thing you will notice is what is captured. All 3 things were pulled from 3 simultaneous videos shot from same location mounted to same very 2 hander tray. Wide angle lens in this case acts like a strong pair of binoculars which is an overkill. On the other hand if this was a shark swimming there it would have been absolutely worth it.
This dive was used to test all 3 camera functions (had bonica for years) and it was very interesting to see what happens when you add lenses and filters and stuff like that. I knew that wide angle lens works in mysterious ways but never had 2 side by side images to compare.
Here is another really cool example. Notice how gopros are showing everything more or less as eyes can see giving depth into the shot. By comparison wide angle lens captures stuff on foreground and takes entire background and zooms it making shot double focus on 2 locations blending them into one area. Granted this is captured off moving image but you can see what its doing.
Unfortunately this was only a 1 tank dive so I did not get to try every bench mark I set out to do but at the very least I has a very thorough benchmark of polar pro filters. I will be uploading part 2 of my brutal polar pro review as soon as humanly possible (editing other stuff at the moment). Lots of good and lots of bad to be said. Given that I actually own 2 filters I will be giving hands on examples, provide comments etc etc.
I wanted to do apples to apples to apples so bear with me.
Setup:
Bonica HDDV 1080 30fps. Bonica wide angle lens. Bonica red lens filter.
Gopro Hero 3 Black X2. 1080 30fps. Polarpro red lens filters.
Wide angle lens opens incredible range of opportunities to a videographer but I never had to compare it against anything. On this dive it was a huge overkill. Let me demonstrate why.
Never mind the fact that lower image is not autowhite balanced but have a look at top row (both gopros with red lens filter, no protune, auto white balance) vs lower row autowhite balance bonica red filter.
First thing you will notice is what is captured. All 3 things were pulled from 3 simultaneous videos shot from same location mounted to same very 2 hander tray. Wide angle lens in this case acts like a strong pair of binoculars which is an overkill. On the other hand if this was a shark swimming there it would have been absolutely worth it.
This dive was used to test all 3 camera functions (had bonica for years) and it was very interesting to see what happens when you add lenses and filters and stuff like that. I knew that wide angle lens works in mysterious ways but never had 2 side by side images to compare.
Here is another really cool example. Notice how gopros are showing everything more or less as eyes can see giving depth into the shot. By comparison wide angle lens captures stuff on foreground and takes entire background and zooms it making shot double focus on 2 locations blending them into one area. Granted this is captured off moving image but you can see what its doing.
Unfortunately this was only a 1 tank dive so I did not get to try every bench mark I set out to do but at the very least I has a very thorough benchmark of polar pro filters. I will be uploading part 2 of my brutal polar pro review as soon as humanly possible (editing other stuff at the moment). Lots of good and lots of bad to be said. Given that I actually own 2 filters I will be giving hands on examples, provide comments etc etc.