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Canon 5D Mark II — The Coolest Video

By Rick Sammon
September 25, 2008 | Comments: 10

Hey All

You gotta see this.

How totally cool! Vincent is the man. I will be adding Canon 5D workshops (shooting and editing) to my 2009 schedule. Hope you can make one!

Rick

10 Comments

Mazen said:

Hi everybody,

The quality of the video taken by 5D Mark ii during the day is awesome! it just looks perfect without even using a reflector or any kind of lighting devices.. but when it comes to night shooting, it doesn't give me the same results unless you lit the location properly.. otherwise the picture will look grainy and so cheap!

I'm not sure if there's some specific settings for night shooting, like ISO or whatever.. any advice? did anybody face this problem?

Thanks

February 26, 2009 4:31 PM

rick sammon said:

hi michael

thanks for your note about the 5D mark II cameras.

i have not hear that... let me check around.

thanks
rick

January 26, 2009 9:16 AM

Michael said:

Last Wednesday I used my two 5D MkII's in a 3 camera music video shoot. The third camera was a Sony PMW-EX1. Audio was recorded on two additional devices. One audio recording device was an Edirol R4 Pro. The other audio recording setup was a Tascam USB Interface to a MacBook Pro.

The Sony Camera, Edirol, and Tascam/MacBook Pro devices all synced sound perfectly over the full duration of the shoot (just over 20 minutes). To clarify - once the different sources are sync'd quickly and easily to the slate clap on the waveform at the beginning of the shoot they all stayed perfectly in sync for the rest of the video.

Both Canon cameras audio and video sync'd perfectly to each other but drifted significantly from the other 3 devices even over a 3 minute segment. The is a very serious problem for me and one that introduces significant post-production trouble and expense.

This issue was so unexpected (I haven't run into this in years of working with a range of equipment) that I performed 3 subsequent tests to confirm that the 5D MkII's run too fast. The results from the test show both of my 5D Mark II run about 14 frames too fast in 10 minutes. Audio that is 1 full frame out of sync is noticeable on sharp sounds causing an echo. Audio that is 2 or 3 frames out of sync causes echo on any sound and looks odd in terms of lip sync.

That the two Canon cameras audio sync'd OK to each other tells me that the cameras can be calibrated to a standard. Evidently they are just calibrated to an incorrect standard.

Anybody else experience this? Does anybody really know if this is likely a chip issue or a firmware issue? Does anyone know an easy reliable way to get the clips to conform to the standard without time-consuming constant tweaking?

January 26, 2009 9:10 AM

Tech News said:

canon is the best!

November 6, 2008 6:13 AM

Canon 5D Mark II said:

I love to see sample images get posted to see how the high ISO shots perform.

November 6, 2008 4:05 AM

Rick Sammon said:

Hi John

Yes... more blurring to come.

Re still vs. video:
RAW vs. HD video
Still image pixel size: 5616 x 3744
Video image pixel size: 1920 x1080

Want a big print? Shoot a still!