This is a hand-held stroll through the neighborhood of the old Paris Opera (Opéra Garnier), just after sunset. Since it is hand-held, I couldn’t prevent the camera from jiggling a bit, but hopefully I held it still enough to still make the video worthwhile. The occasional sniffle you hear in the background is me, since the chilly air made me sniffle. The stroll starts on the boulevard de la Bonne Nouvelle, and continues west for 23 minutes and one mile to finish in front of the Opéra Garnier. The video consists of just two long, uninterrupted, hand-held tracking shots. If Hitchcock and Scorsese can do it, so can I! Ironically, some of the periodic jumps in the image come from the image stabilization on the camera, which holds the image still until it decides that the frame should have moved, in which case it quickly shifts the image. This is especially obvious in the up-and-down axis. The constant noise is the real thing. Paris is a tremendously noisy city. Turn on closed captions for some simple narration.
Video Rating: 5 / 5