Boosted Falcon

Hi,

just a quick link to some stuff I've done just recently experimenting with my Canon 7D and shooting video.

I've built an aluminium Jib/Crane for moving shots (watch it in 720p!):

That's pretty cool.

(No homo)

Thanks Sunny. Was shooting a music video for a mate, that's just a random shot I did while we were eating tea. The actual music vid probably won't be done until early Feb at this point (I'll make sure I link from here)

That's a Brilliant video, the 7d is a really great camera, I wish i had the 550D so I could update the software, and get better frame rate. But iv'e only got the 500.

Have you seen these video's by Devin Graham 5DmkII and a glidecam pro.

http://www.youtube.com/devinsupertramp# ... BLccEDmn40

http://www.youtube.com/devinsupertramp# ... F_OQuu3Ap0

In fact all his video's are great.

Those are amazing. I hadn't seen them, so thankyou very much for showing me something to aspire to!

Those vids are awesome!

Yours is rad too SNR. I have played with my 550d, I always seem to have issues getting it to focus. The half-press shutter thing seems to cause it to focus in and out heaps and make a lot of noise in the mic, but it wont track a subject. Using an 18-200 5.6 lens or my 30mm 1.4. Any tips?

galapogos01 wrote:Those vids are awesome!

Yours is rad too SNR. I have played with my 550d, I always seem to have issues getting it to focus. The half-press shutter thing seems to cause it to focus in and out heaps and make a lot of noise in the mic, but it wont track a subject. Using an 18-200 5.6 lens or my 30mm 1.4. Any tips?

yeah the focus is slow, noisy and annoying. You have to do is really plan your shot get the focus distance organised before. It's a downfall but considering its not really a video camera hard to complain really. Manual focusing is better but hard to keep it still and smooth.

Yeah, I find it hard to get accurate focus using the LCD when focusing manually. The 10x zoom button helps but when tracking something on video it's easy to lose the subject at 10x zoom.

Have you looked at Magic Lantern firmware for your 500d to get 24fps? http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Release_2011Dec22

I knew they were trying to release it for the 500D but had not come across it's release yet looks good..

galapogos01 wrote:Those vids are awesome!

Yours is rad too SNR. I have played with my 550d, I always seem to have issues getting it to focus. The half-press shutter thing seems to cause it to focus in and out heaps and make a lot of noise in the mic, but it wont track a subject. Using an 18-200 5.6 lens or my 30mm 1.4. Any tips?

Yeah, focus manually.

Use a monopod, set focus where you want to end your shot, then move the camera away and do a lean in to the final spot. Look up stillmotion on vimeo, they have some cool tips like that on there.

Manual focus is naff though. It depends on the lens you are using as to just how clear it will be when in focus; poor lenses will be blurry even in focus when at 10x on the display. I only have Canon stuff and all pretty exxy (even the "nasty" EF 35mm f/2 used for this)

I also have an EF 10-22 (great handheld, camera movement isn't as distracting/obvious) - here's another tip - if it's bright enough, shoot wide and with quite a small aperture, this will mean focus isn't anywhere near as critical.

EF 50mm f/1.4 (don't really use much for video but is really good for the lean in-lean out type shots I mentioned above

EF 200mm f/2.8 - too easy to bump for video, even on a tripod, but really good for background seperation stuff; basically can't use for any moving camera shots as it's just too heavy to stabalise.