Tokyo Midtown Christmas Illumination 2011

Here's a quick piece I threw together to go along with a GaijinChannel.com article about Tokyo Christmas illuminations. But one reason I shot this was simply to test out my new GH2, guerrilla shooting at Tokyo Midtown, the highlight of which was the "Starlight Garden" attraction.

I managed to get quite stable shots thanks to a pretty kickass monopod from Manfrotto (561bhdv), which was low-key enough not to raise any red flags in an area where tripod shooting is strictly forbidden.

The GH2 hack is Andrew Reid's EOSHD "Intra-esting 88" which enables shooting 1080/24p at 88Mbit/s. Almost all shots are with the Sigma 30mm f1.4 (Canon mount/Kippon adapter) I threw in only one shot from the Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 (try and find it!) ISO settings were mostly 320, 640 or 1250. The footage is untreated, so this is how it looks straight from camera.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Tokyo Midtown
• Christmas Illumination
• Japan
• hacked gh2
• intra-esting 88
• Panasonic GH2
• low light
• manfrotto 561bhdv
• Tokyo
• Illumination
• 2011
• Roppongi
• Christmas
• Starlight Garden
• Santa Tree
• Big Santa Boot
• Dazzling Tree
• Aurora Road
• Tree Illumination
• sightseeing
• HD
• 日本
• 東京
• ミッドタウン
• 東京ミッドタウン
• 六本木
• 観光
• 天の川
• クリスマス
• イルミネーション
• ハイビジョン

[GaijinCh]

I'm using SanDisk Extreme Class 10, 30MB/s SDHC cards. I've used this patch on two more shoots since and still not a single hiccup or freeze.

[sirtechy]

What card were you using? Any hiccups or freezes when using this patch?