Paul & the Sony α7C II go to SEA LIFE London Aquarium

I was going to do a little Vlog about this trip, but it wound up being impractical to do much vlogging while walking around the SEA LIFE London Aquarium, so I just focused on doing what I was really here to do: testing out my new Sony α7C II. So this is just a simple little test video, demonstrating the quality of footage I was able to capture of all the cool fish and other aquatic critters to be found at the Wonder Under London. I also took this as an opportunity to experiment with migrating my finishing workflow to Final Cut Pro from LumaFusion and see how the grading of the footage and any additional stabilisation it could add in post would come out and with moving to a 60fps master from 30fps. So this one is primarily of interest to me, but it’s here for anyone to take a look and see what these tools are capable of even while still getting up to speed.
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DJI Osmo Action 4 HDR Sample Footage

Testing out my new DJI Osmo Action 4 camera. I picked up the Osmo Action 4 to use for things like capturing footage onboard theme park rides where using my DJI Pocket 2 or my iPhone 15 Pro Max handheld wouldn’t be possible or at least impractical. In this sample footage, I test out using the camera for vlogging, walking chest-mounted, in low light, using slow motion & a walking hyperlapse. This video is in HLG HDR and the levels from the Osmo Action 4 have been adjusted for HDR presentation.
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