highlights of "joey tang guitar hero live 2009" concert in hong kong (part 1 of 2)

highlights shot using my newly acquired canon eos 7d. until the concert, i only had used it a few times shooting randomly while i was walking around the city. i am sure i looked rather conspicuously with all the zacuto gear attached. and, of course, very 自由行 feel. two times strangers came up and asked if it was a mobile phone that i had attached to the zacuto zound hotshoe.

i didn't use my zacuto rapid fire for this shooting for obvious reason. i don't think security will let me enter with the sight of it. instead, i used my another new zacuto gear, the z-finder version 2, to help stabilize. the entire footage was shot handheld. the z-finder has proved it is now indispensable. audio, as usual, was recorded using my olympus ls-10 pcm recorder using 44.1khz/16bit settings. as i was still new to the 7d, video was shot entirely using automatic 1080p 25p settings. i did try to shoot some photos during video shooting and this had given me some headaches during post to rectify the syncing problems created by the 1-sec pause that took place in video for each photo taken. i actually had repeated syncing a few times using pluraleyes before realizing the problem was caused by the 1-sec pause. i ended up doing a lot of the syncs manually. so, as convenient as the feature sounds, i will never use simultaneous video/photo shooting again in future. well, unless canon can fix it with a future firmware upgrade.

besides pluraleyes, post production was entirely done in final cut studio 3 on a 2008 macbook pro. no filters or grading have been performed to keep the video intact. only transitions and some motion effects have been applied.

lens used: canon ef 24-70mm 2.8L and ef 70-200mm 2.8L

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• joey tang
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[JXViper]

Hey, yes I notice 7D is really good, I have a choice now either to get the 500D or 7D, I also found out that 50D doesn't have the video recording, which sucks before I really need that feature, do you think 500D is good enough to get?

[rodkar]

video quality of 500d is almost as good as 7d in the same format and settings which is not a surprise as they have the same cmos size. depth of field should be the same. watch my 500d videos. but if u will be shooting a lot in formats that 500d doesnt support like 1080p/25p then you have no choice but to go with 7d. 500d not just supports less formats, it also doesn't allow manual control in video mode. as to what are the formats that 500d supports, check out at canon's website.

[JXViper]

Hey, I was checking out the product review on the EOS 7D, the video quality is really good, could you tell me more about the camera? What do you think the best good and the disadvantage.

[rodkar]

it depends on what u r using now and what u r comparing it to. moving up from 40d, i can't think of any disadvantages other than that it is more expensive than what i had paid for the 40 about 20 months ago.but, again, 7d is a class above xxd. 50d today cost less than 40d 20 months ago in absolute dollar value. all things considered, i think the price of 7d today is very reasonable.

[yputup]

ok, pardon for what I'd said nar.

[rodkar]

no worries :-)

[lkp0930]

any full version??

i want it please:)

[acirak]

great video, but the sound is poor.  good job, tough!

[rodkar]

will try to finish part 2 this week :-)

[tvbkid]

thanks for uploading! looking forward to part 2 :)