AF is enabled. Granted...Slow.. but it does have AF functionality.
Apologies. I meant to say "fast AF". If Olympus made a fast contrast AF in the GH1 I see no reason that Canon can't match and even surpass them. Basically, I think that the engineers can do a lot more than we have now if the marketing people won't tie their hands.
I'm confused (nothing new) - I don't own the 5D II, but what does it mean to set a shutter speed when shooting a video? It makes no sense to me what this means. What is the current method of operation for video mode?
Well you are not along in your confusion. First the video is allows recorded on the the 5d MK2 at 30fps. The shutter speed is only a way of controlling the amount of light that hits that frame being recorded along with the aperture. Think of it in terms of a still picture capture and forget the frames per second. Weird I know that what can I tell you.
I use a d90, and normally bash canon, but this was an extremely smart move on their part. They have separated the video on a pro camera from that on the more entry level DSLRs. good job canon. now if you would start including lens hoods!
Yakim Peled wrote:
Apologies. I meant to say "fast AF". If Olympus made a fast contrast AF in the GH1 I see no reason that Canon can't match and even surpass them. Basically, I think that the engineers can do a lot more than we have now if the marketing people won't tie their hands.
Happy shooting,
Yakim.
? the GH1 is from Panasonic , has no mirror and an EVF, and its also probably a bit easier (and faster) to get focus when you are dealing with the extra DOF for the given FOV and Fstop
But yes the contrast detect AF is the next thing to get some more work on
I have very little technical knowledge about this so all I can say is that I have more belief in the skills of the engineers than in the common sense of the Marketing executives.
davenfl wrote:
Well you are not along in your confusion. First the video is allows recorded on the the 5d MK2 at 30fps. The shutter speed is only a way of controlling the amount of light that hits that frame being recorded along with the aperture. Think of it in terms of a still picture capture and forget the frames per second. Weird I know that what can I tell you.
Hey, thanks Dave makes sense. If you want properly exposed video do you first meter in still mode with your preferred aperture, then switch to video mode?
