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Canon EOS 5D Mark II: 21MP and HD movies

HDMI uncompressed

HDMI uncompressed

H.264 may be 8-but but the HDMI seems to be before h.264 compression so it may well be 10-bit 4:2:2 over HDMI.,\
Ariana said:
If it's h.264, then it's also 8bit i think.
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Luminous Landscape has a video demo up on their site...some of the specs are wrong (1080i instead of 1080p) probably due to 'no' real specs given them way back at the 5th of this month when they were asked to take a look at the camera (and the fact that Michael had only a day or two to check it out before a trip to Africa (or somewhere distant)). When you get to the sample footage...it is pretty impressive considering the obvious huge compression necessary to get it to the web. He said most of it was shot at ISO3200...wow! He also said that there was almost no skew (read his discussion just before the video). Now, if only it had an articulated LCD.
 
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Josch said:
If not, it´s useless (as a motioncam) over here.

Jochen
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Too bad the D90 is such a desaster in terms of video. Otherwise, it would have been possible to push Canon to allow for different speeds. But the popular success of the 5D II is such that Canon Marketing will say no to any feature improvement.

As someone put it "it is the Canon way". Should we complain? Maybe not, because it must be their marketing also that allows them to shell out such astonishing products.
 
lrgebhardt said:
Luminous Landscape has a video demo up on their site...some of the specs are wrong (1080i instead of 1080p) probably due to 'no' real specs given them way back at the 5th of this month when they were asked to take a look at the camera (and the fact that Michael had only a day or two to check it out before a trip to Africa (or somewhere distant)). When you get to the sample footage...it is pretty impressive considering the obvious huge compression necessary to get it to the web. He said most of it was shot at ISO3200...wow! He also said that there was almost no skew (read his discussion just before the video). Now, if only it had an articulated LCD.
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Yeah...his article said it was over 47bit as well.
I thought it was around 35bit. (if he is right, maybe you can pull a good key?)

Cant wait to see what Jim has up his sleeve with this DSMC/Scarlet thing.

Peace

dAlen
 
pango said:
Too bad the D90 is such a desaster in terms of video. Otherwise, it would have been possible to push Canon to allow for different speeds. But the popular success of the 5D II is such that Canon Marketing will say no to any feature improvement.

As someone put it "it is the Canon way". Should we complain? Maybe not, because it must be their marketing also that allows them to shell out such astonishing products.
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Why is it a disaster?
Because no one like Vincent stood up and did with the Nikon yet, what he did with the Canon.

Im not sure, but I dont know anyone that yanked out a 5k budget - fluid head tripod, some lighting, and tried to show off the nikon.

That bad footage of the nikon was just hand held wasnt it?
Lets see the 5d II hand held and being swiveled around... :)

Peace

dAlen
 
pango said:
http://www.vimeo.com/videos/search:d90

Fact is, the same images taken with the D90 would not look as good. You can see the heavy skew even on some promotional videos. My cellphone is a bit worse, but not that much.
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The point seems to be missed...it wasnt put on a fluid head tripod. ;)
At least not that I know of.

The canon wasnt panned the same as the nikon. (it had the fluid head tripod)
We havent seen the canon and what skew it may have when panned without the extra equipment. ;)

It may be better...just havent seen the footage with an accurate comparison. ;)

Peace

dAlen
 
Here's a short film shot on one of the first 5D Mk11's. This was directed and photographed by world renowned photographer and Canon Explorer of Light, Vincent Laforet. http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/

Lets not forget what this camera is. First and foremost it is a digital STILL camera that happens to shoot amazing HD images. It was not meant to replace/compete with a Red or F23 or whatever else used for film-making today. It is a digital STILL CAMERA! So with that in mind being 30FPS should not matter to anyone on this forum because even if it did 24fps or (23.98) no one on here would ever think of slapping a matte-box on and a follow focus and showing up to your client's project with this Canon DSLR!!

Lets just be happy with what it is as opposed to complain about what its not.

just my two-cents....
 
ditto..
 
earmarkcreative said:
Here's a short film shot on one of the first 5D Mk11's. This was directed and photographed by world renowned photographer and Canon Explorer of Light, Vincent Laforet. http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/

no one on here would ever think of slapping a matte-box on and a follow focus and showing up to your client's project with this Canon DSLR!!
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But there's no shortage of frankenrigged adapter shooters whose rigs would be infinitely more streamlined with a 5D.

And there are legions more who will kill for this image quality for $2600.
 
earmarkcreative said:
o one on here would ever think of slapping a matte-box on and a follow focus and showing up to your client's project with this Canon DSLR!!
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Oh yeah I would. Guess others beat me to it, but clients just care about the result. Old school Hollywood producers might want 35mm only - but those guys are getting a real dose of RED right now. We're at the point where gear doesn't matter, just results.

I'm guessing I'd probably shoot one of these before I'd rig up an adapter to an EX1. 30FPS can be converted to 24 in post. These cameras might kill the adapter market first. RED has other things going for it.
 
Solomon Chase said:
Already have a mattebox / followfocus on my D90, and the 5D MKII will get the same treatment :biggrin:
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Its Solomon Chase, sweet HV20 work on the Rainy Day video.

And yea, who wouldnt mount a mattebox and follow focus to one of these new ViDSLRS (see what I did there?)
 
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