Canon 7d in Amsterdam

A couple of hours in Amsterdam testing the Canon 7d, lot of details, night shooting and typical Amsterdam tourist attractions :) Some shots, most of them not in this video, will be used in a BBC doc about the drugtrade. For some reason people think there is a drugtrade in Amsterdam... OMG!

All shot handheld with a Canon 7d and Sigma 10-20 F3.5 and a monopod:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maart/4052758958/

Changed the curve in Color to get a bit more detail in dark parts. Overdid it in some shots, will re-grade and re-upload later.

Camera was set to Av, so White balance, exposure and ISO (gain) are all set to auto. Still waiting for my ZFinder so had some trouble focusing. Some of the stuff is pretty rough because the area was not a place where you want to attract to much attention by being all pro and setting up the camera. So some of it is shot without looking and just a basic test to see how this Canon behaves with no light and a lot of movement.

Will do some more daylight shooting with the 7d this week.

For more info on my experiences with this camera check out:

http://www.digital-exposure.com/dslr-cinema/5-dslr-video-good-bad-ugly.html

Category:

Film & Animation

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• canon 7d
• canon
• 7d
• dslr
• video
• redlight district
• Amsterdam
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• digital-exposure.com

[freddyfreddy101]

did you use a rig of some sort?

my 7d never has this little jello when i do it completely handheld without a rig! very hard to do unless u have a very steady hand. if you did use a rig, wat kind did you use?

[Visualbrother]

@freddyfreddy101 Just a monopod, no rig. And with a superwide like this Sigma 10-20 mm it is a lot easier to keep things steady. If you want to shoot a bit more close or with a zoom, get one of the Canon lenses with a image stabilizer.

And if you don't have one, get a Z-finder if you want to shoot video. You need that extra point of contact when shooting handheld, holding the camera in front of you to look at the LCD will make it very unstable.

Hope this makes sense :)

[stanarthur]

Gotta get me a Sigma 10-20.

[ksalbrecht88]

This video is exactly what I wanted to see... Amsterdam film with a Canon Eos 7D! Thanks for the upload! I am a cannabis advocate & envy Amsterdam's policies. I want to go there soooo bad.

[DeLuxeMon]

LOVE AMS

[Visualbrother]

@rubent100 Not really no, for my system it just works faster when doing effects and quick timed cuts play a bit more fluid, also much more responsive when jog/shuttling, so I prefer it. For grading I re-connect to the original files to get the most out of it.

[rubent100]

@Visualbrother I see, i didn't have to much trouble editing out of .mov, is there really a need to convert to XDCAM?

[Visualbrother]

@rubent100 Well XDCAM EX is the editing format, nobody says the final video output has to be XDCAM EX :) What I send to YouTube is a H264 or a HD WMV.

So edit on whatever format you like, output on whatever format you like, they are seperate issues.

On a side note: if you have a Mac and can edit XDCAM EX your Quicktime player can play XDCAM, other wise you would not be able to edit it.

[rubent100]

@Visualbrother XDCAM huh, i can't play that type of file on my system. The only video player that can open that file is VLC but it looks really choppy. XDCAM is mpeg4 right?

[Visualbrother]

@rubent100 Not Prores, but I did convert it to XDCAM EX 1080P just for easier editing, using mpeg streamclip batch convert.

[rubent100]

Is this converted to Prores?