I was in Sofia, Bulgaria at the weekend with my friend and colleague Philip Bloom of www.philipbloom.co.uk and we were teaching a bunch of film makers about how to create the film look using video, depth of field adaptors and learning tapeless workflow.
It was pretty interesting and very enjoyable sharing our knowledge with the film makers.
While we were there we shot some footage on the new Canon 5D MkII.
I thought you might be interested in seeing it.
The camera does have some limitations though!
It only shoots in 30P mode and you have no manual control over shutter speed, ISO or aperture if you use EOS lenses. So we were using a Nikon to Canon EOS adaptor and Zeiss ZF Nikon mount stills lenses.
You have to cheat the film speed and lock it so that you can control the aperture which is a little fiddly but works well particularly at night.
The sensitivity is incredible and most of what you’ll see in the video was shot at ISO 1250.
The codec is H.264 and once finished we transcoded the files to XDCAM EX 35mb/s for editing. This reduces file size considerably and makes for much less processor intensive editing. The transcode software is free and is called MPEG Stream Clip and you can get it here
Anyway here’s the film:
Would love to know what you think?
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Nice mate. The colours look really nice, has it been graded or is that all in camera. With that high ISO I guess it is all available light as well - looks really nice.
no grading…bare bones settings in camera
i haven’t looked deeply into MPEG streamclip transcoding, but am looking for a solution for getting 5D Mark II stereo to transcode to dual-mono so I can just drag and drop onto disc on the U1 or HD1500 XDCAM decks, but can’t get around this issue without putting the clips in a FCP timeline and then exporting dual mono. Any thoughts?
Where can I get a Nikon to Canon EOS adaptor? I was begining to think that such a thing did not exist - that’s what I have been told so far, am searching for just this thing to possibly use my Nikon lenses on a 5D Mk 11
very nice - did you use any lights? i could recon some artificial light in some shots… am I wrong or not? thanx
This is just amazing!
great capture and great music.