Good point about pans.

Loosing detail on motion is something most cameras will do to an extent.

Above a certain speed this effect does become noticable as the camera juggles it's bits moer thinly in the moving scene.

Gains are to had from manual shooting but on many comoct cmares this is always a challenge. One of the main resons I splashed most of my overdraught on my big jvc is that I wanted the contril of a proper lens with proper manual controls - but the flip side is you would be loon to take a huge camera many of the places you would take a contact.

Musing further, still picutres in video can be used for added impact just becuse we dont often see them in this no tripod wobby calera filming age.

Point taken about getting in the way, it can take a bit of bossiness to get that shot sometimes and staging stuff is not something i am keen on. It is very common practice for doc film makers to masseage 'actualie' I think this is done at the risk of swapping technical pefection for less 'real vibes' - all depends on what you are after.

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