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Re: Canon EOS 7D Master thread
RobDickinson wrote:
- liveview/video - the switch, switch it to video, then press the button, video records. same for lvie view, if its sr tto live view press the button, once...
Can you confirm this? The 7D I tried behaved as follows: switch to video, hit button, mirror flips/liveview comes on, hit button again, red dot appears to show that camera is recording. So from shooting stills I would first need to check that the switch is set to video, which it often won\'t be, because I couldn\'t find another way of initiating liveview, then I would need to press the video button, at which point the camera would start liveview BUT NOT START VIDEO, and then press the button a second time to start recording. Built for people who have plenty of time on their hands and love fiddling.
- video with FLASH? what are you on about!?
I will try to use shorter sentences in future. To clarify, what I meant was this: BECAUSE YOU CAN\'T USE FLASH with video, it is often desirable to use wide apertures instead. No flash, therefore available light. That is why the absence of an EFS 15mm f1.4 limits the appeal of the 7D\'s video capabilities for me. Notwithstanding the absence of 24p, a 5D2 with 24 f1.4 is a far more potent low light video rig, because it\'s a great focal length for general use and especially hand-holding, and it can see in the dark (i.e. without flash by necessity!).
Oct 08, 2009 at 05:39 AM
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