{"id":2303,"date":"2009-03-03T04:31:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2009-03-10T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:51:32","slug":"shooting-with-the-panasonic-hpx-301e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/shooting-with-the-panasonic-hpx-301e\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting with the Panasonic HPX 301e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to have the new Panasonic HPX 301e, which is the European version of the HPX 300, for the weekend. I went to film some ducks, to Piccadilly Circus (again) but the really nice stuff was when I nipped down to St Margarets Bay near Dover in Kent whilst visiting my parents. I know, I went to see my folks and spent most of the time out shooting. Bit of an addiction this shooting lark!<\/p>\n<p>I love filming water. It fascinates me and I could watch it for hours. I also like tired English seaside resorts. St Margarets is really just a bay with a short promenade, not much there but a nice place to knock off a few shots. Everything was shot with the stock lens and filmed in AVCi 100. Edited in FCP using Pro Res 422<\/p>\n<p>The camera was a joy to use. The LCD may not be as good as the EX1 but it&#8217;s still good. The viewfinder is also superb. I struggled a little with the camera, mainly due to my familiarity with Sony cameras and limited experience with Panasonic cameras. Just getting my head around the menus, how to change things. I couldn&#8217;t get a picture profile (scene file) that I was really happy with. Think this will take time. Also I found it annoying that in thumbnail mode to view my overcrank material I had to change the camera system to play it back. I suppose this is the same as my F350, but in the EX1\/EX3 the dedicated media mode plays everything. These are just niggles that I will get used to.<\/p>\n<p>The lens is fine, a 20x would be better but it performed well. There is CA in some shots but what do you expect at this price point?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/films\/35mm-films\/a-sunday-in-kent-shot-on-panasonic-hpx301e\/\">Please check out the short here and do download the full HD version to see it at it&#8217;s best!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[starrater]<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/shooting-with-the-panasonic-hpx-301e\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[282,322,1283,312,406,1282,383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}