While I am on the video thing I was wondering how you FMers would put the 5D2 video to practical use.

I use my camera for shooting accident and crime scenes for later courtroom presentation but there are times when I may want to tape a route my client may have driven before his arrest to illustrate physical aspects of a route that may have affected his driving, such as potholes, curves etc. This is particularly relevant in DUI cases where I am looking for an explanation of questionable driving. Now I have to bring my camcorder with me. With the 5D2 I get the best of both worlds for under 3K

Am I trying to justify a purchase? No, because I don't have to. Another plus is that a business-related buy costs me about 2/3s of the price in real dollars

I want to make a zombie flick. Brainnssss.....
I'll probably never get the budget to get more than a scene or two done though and I very much imagine that I'll be cajoling people into playing roles for me.

I could also see myself filming some wildlife on the islands off the coast here, plus the usual daily drunken shenanigans that this island throws out.

Very much looking forward to it I can tell you!

This is a good question. After second thoughts I wonder if I need video...
First of all its practical usage and settings make it cumbersome on the 5d2.
Then dealing with gigabytes of data for a couple minutes shooting...

Still impressed by the Laforet and co videos, but I wonder if the 5D2 is not a kind of DSLR video guinea-pig...

"I want to make a zombie flick. Brainnssss....."

John Power wrote:
While I am on the video thing I was wondering how you FMers would put the 5D2 video to practical use.

I use my camera for shooting accident and crime scenes for later courtroom presentation but there are times when I may want to tape a route my client may have driven before his arrest to illustrate physical aspects of a route that may have affected his driving, such as potholes, curves etc. This is particularly relevant in DUI cases where I am looking for an explanation of questionable driving. Now I have to bring my camcorder with me. With the 5D2 I get the best of both worlds for under 3K

Am I trying to justify a purchase? No, because I don't have to. Another plus is that a business-related buy costs me about 2/3s of the price in real dollars

Can you do the trip in 12 mins or less
Not belittleing your work. It would probably be a good tool for you but maybe the video could come up a bit short for your use. IE No AF when recording and the shorter DOF may not suite the application. worth a try though but still have you Video cam with you just in case.

Boom-chicka-bow-wow...

Speaking of MK2 video, what kind of CF cards are optimal for this use?

Ben Horne wrote:
Boom-chicka-bow-wow...

?........................rarely if at all beyond testing it out of the box?

UDMA (40-45mbps speed) 16mp or 32mp Lexar Pro or Sandisk Ultra IV.

deewaltguy wrote:
Speaking of MK2 video, what kind of CF cards are optimal for this use?

I'm going to make a documentary.

Sparingly. I would rather have good DR and low noise than the video ability. Can't frame or hang a video production on the wall

I just hope that people who are all fired up about making video will not be disappointed. I'm a bit bummed out about the lack of AF while shooting although manual focusing will work, with practice.

Most certainly

Ian.Dobinson wrote:
John Power wrote:
While I am on the video thing I was wondering how you FMers would put the 5D2 video to practical use.

I use my camera for shooting accident and crime scenes for later courtroom presentation but there are times when I may want to tape a route my client may have driven before his arrest to illustrate physical aspects of a route that may have affected his driving, such as potholes, curves etc. This is particularly relevant in DUI cases where I am looking for an explanation of questionable driving. Now I have to bring my camcorder with me. With the 5D2 I get the best of both worlds for under 3K

Am I trying to justify a purchase? No, because I don't have to. Another plus is that a business-related buy costs me about 2/3s of the price in real dollars

Can you do the trip in 12 mins or less
Not belittleing your work. It would probably be a good tool for you but maybe the video could come up a bit short for your use. IE No AF when recording and the shorter DOF may not suite the application. worth a try though but still have you Video cam with you just in case.

If you shoot 480p not 1080p, you can get 24 min per clip of 4GB. Then pop in another ... But perhaps the client wasn't being followed that long before being pulled over ?? ??

I guess I did not check the stats. There is a limit in the video? Can't you just put in a 16gb CF card?

It's a limit of 12 mins per clip, not a limit of 12 mins full stop (or 4Gb, which ever comes first, and that's dictated by the file system on CF cards, not a limitation of the camera per se).
The way some people are going on it's like the camera can only shoot 12 minutes before detonating.

Anyway, my thinking on the video feature is that it's better looking at it than for it.

I'm intrigued by it. I shoot a lot of weddings where this is no videographer. I don't want to shoot video (been there, done that) but I 'd like to come up with some idea to make money with this feature.

I'm 99% sure i'll use it for advertising- get a clip of teh B&G saying nice things about me, or clips of something for the web or blog.
I'll throw out my 8 year old video camera that I've not used in 3 years
I'll get some video editing software I suppose.

A movie is sooo tempting to want to try, but as has been mentioned, cost and time and cast. My concept is a serial killer flick - less makeup and every senior or bride can be a victim! Call it "blair the bitch" maybe.

Ben Horne wrote:
Boom-chicka-bow-wow...




Please don't use a macro lens for this flick.

I was considering an XH-A1 to shoot some short films I had ideas on and some promo like videos for some stuff I have been working on. I was planning on picking up the xh when I had time and then the 5d waas announced... So I figured I would wait. I plan to record audio separate with some nice mics I have for music recording.

Short film work for me. I shot them back a few years ago and got out of the video biz when HDV and the like first came out. This new body is the first new piece of hardware that has gotten me excited about video/film making in over 4 years. Really looking forward to rack focusing, shallow DOF with high quality optics, and options for burning to Blu-Ray...