I shot this Nikon D750 Thai boxing video at the Max Muay Thai Stadium Pattaya using a Nikon 28 by 70 2.8 lens.  This is the same lens I used shooting digital stills of strippers and feature entertainers with a Nikon D-1 X.

The Nikon D750 has awesome video potential

Weighing in at a full 2.2 pounds on that professional Nikon SLR with a powerful flash–this was a lot of weight to be carrying around on one’s neck all night long.  So I understand how the Nikon 28 by 70 2.8 lens earned its nickname, “The Beast”.   The lens was also very expensive.  But I noticed that this lens almost produced a three dimensional effect that lesser lenses were incapable of achieving.

My new Nikon D750 camera is an awesome piece of equipment.  Its resolution is four times greater than my old Nikon D1x.  Although it can function as a point and shoot, it has so many features that it would take me a lifetime to master them.   My main problem was that I could never shoot decent video with it.   Yet this camera had outstanding video capabilities according to all the photography reviews I had read.  I just couldn’t get it to change its focus when I went from short range to long range subjects.  But my little Panasonic LX-7 with its superb Leica lens came through every time.

But so far shooting video with it has ended in abject failure

All my video experiments with the Nikon D750 wound up in failure.  Then I found a one and a half minute video on you tube that pointed out a very important step I had never taken.  Suddenly all my focusing problems seemed to go away.  And tonight I was going with Big Daddy to the Max Muay Thai Pattaya Stadium.   There would be sufficient light at the stadium for accurate focusing of the camera.  While in the ring there would be a lot of fast moving action to challenge the camera’s focusing ability in video mode.

The Nikon D750 Thai boxing video vindicates the camera’s potential

For the first time my Nikon D750’s video performed up to expectations.  The Thai boxers were all over the ring, moving from its opposite side to only a few feet away from me.  Big Daddy and I had first row seats.  Being so close to the fighters did pose two challenges, however.  There was a post right in front of me, which would obscure my subjects from my camera whenever they moved behind it.   The second challenge was the ring’s ropes.  I’m sure that my camera was constantly focusing on the ropes instead of the fighters.   I could at least edit out those portions of the video that had the two fighters going at each other behind the post.  But there was no way getting around having to shoot between the ropes that formed the perimeter of the ring.    The camera would often tend to focus on the nearest object.

Overall, I think the results were outstanding.  The twin stereo speakers in the Nikon D750 reproduces very strong audio bass.  I think that the series of 20 odd digital stills at the end of the video show that there is really nothing like a good SLR camera when it comes to zeroing in on the action.  Nikon D750 Thai boxing