a7S II SteadyShot issues shooting video

[cliffwatson]

Sony a7S II with Sony 24-70mm f4 lens in video mode, SteadyShot ON

 

I was shooting an event hand-held using a camera cage, and I felt pretty good about holding the camera steady.  I was very disappointed when I viewed the footage.  The video floats or rock and rolls.  The SteadyShot function definitely added motion to my video.

 

FYI, I am an experienced cameraman having worked professionally for more years now than I want to say.

 

Am I using this function improperly?  I have looked at years of hand-held video, and I am not happy with this result of smoothing out the video with SteadyShot.

 

Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

 

BTW, I love this camera ... the look, the photographs, the feel ... all good!

[Golem]

Kinda vague thought but .... 

  

Since you are experienced and quite steady by

your own skills, but since you hope Steady Shot

might be helpful, maybe you should reduce the

amount of "help" that Steady Shot renders. You

can take Steady Shot's FL info off of "Auto" and

dial in any FL you choose. What I'm suggesting

it to set about 1/2 or 2/3 of actual FL. It's just my

half baked idea which I certainly haven't tried on

my own. Just "arm chair quarterbacking" on my

part, but seems worth a shot [OK, pun intended]. 

  

Maybe with your skills you are in conflict with a

mechanism that is attempting to do what you're

already doing ? Maybe instead of allowing the

Steady Shot mechanism to redundantly double

up on your skill, maybe it would be beneficial to

have Steady Shot offer just a "final tweak" rather

than letting it attempt to totally take over.

 

Sure is a lotta "maybe" in there :-)