Sony NX5 Camera in 1 hour.

Not so long ago we had a chance to get to know Sony NX5 camera. That is actualy a great thing that you can touch a real camera, get acquated with it, say "HI!". It probably won't answer, firstly, because it is a camera and, secondly, because you're not able to treat her in the way it requires yet. But still you feel this satisfaction when you touch it with your fingers, it's like you touch something really as enormous and profound as cinema.

We came into the room with two people ready to share their experience, three boxes with tripods in them and three boxes with cameras and one artificial bird which we were going to film. First 30 minutes we spent to set up all tripods and cameras, one of these guys showed us all the procedure in detail. I was very impatient, but, finally, we switched on the cameras and started to change the picture on our little screens. Firstly, we zoomed the bird and focused on it - picture became sharp. Then we changed the light and made the image brighter. Now it looked much prettier.

Then we opened the door which was behind the bird, so that the bird became very dark and the background extremely overexposed. Now on the background through the door you could see some green trees and some white object in front of them. But the colours on the screen didn't seem natural, so our next step was to make them seem so. We zoomed on this white object so that the white colour occupied all the image, then we focused and press on one of  so-called "magical" button in the bottom of the controll panel and the colours in the picture became natural.

It took us approximetly an hour and ten minutes to learn all this, so I can say that it's a pretty long process and it takes much more than one hour until camera responds to you in an appropriate, respectful way, talks with you like with its real owner. But it's worth learning!