5D II - Youtube footage - Not MUCH Skew... Hmmm

[Matthew Bennett]

This appears to be actual non-rigged, normal dude, shakey hand-held footage from the 5DII, and although there is SOME skew it looks like Canon has it almost licked...
What does everyone else think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ILR7uf4GM

[Kholi]

How wide is the lens?

[Matthew Bennett]

I don't know, I'm imagining that this is just a guy with a blog who went to a camera show in Lisbon, shot to his own card, and then put the footage on youtube.... I'll try translating his website, (linked in youtube)

But as a d90 user you must agree, Kholi, that this exact operator would have killed the d90 as far as skew goes.. so it appears there has been some progress

[Madmanden]

I didn't notice any wobble and the skew wasn't too bad. Seems promising.

[wjm]

I wonder if he shot 1920x1020 or if he used the lower resolution setting (640x480) which might have some impact on the skew. If this is Full HD then the skew is nearly non-existent! Put this baby on a steadi-cam or tripod and you're OFF!

Crap - there goes $2700 from me... :-(

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

He also was on a wide lens and without much fast panning. I want to see somebody swish panning back and forth to see how the two compare.

[ando]

there is no difference between wobble and skew. it's the same effect called rolling shutter

it rolls but less than d90. that's pretty clear. what we need to know is what sort of controls are available in video. so far we now that you can't set the shutter but no indication on locking exposure or other things like EV

[Matthew Bennett]

My mirror post on REDUSER got slaughtered in the "is there skew to you?" question.

Compared to the d90 though, this is looking pretty good.

[Kholi]

Originally Posted by Andrew Brinkhaus

He also was on a wide lens and without much fast panning. I want to see somebody swish panning back and forth to see how the two compare.

Exactly. I won't trust it til it's in my hands, which don't like anything that's too light.

[Matthew Bennett]

I also just noticed a moment where the guy panned out the window, and there was a very smooth transition to a lower exposure... that was nice to see as well.

I would buy this over a Scarlet if all the manual controls are there, and the sound is there a bit more...
The thing that gets me is the apparent FIXED BITRATE! Even on the sample clip at DPreview, a bird with a very blank sky in the BG, the compression stayed at the target level! Oh Nikon, if only you were so diligent...