Interesting D5 Mark II (cap)abilities -- more/new (careful) footage

That was absolutely incredible; I'm blown away. I am more impressed with this than Laforet's video, reason being that this more than likely didn't have a budget and so it's more amateurish, but equally looks as awesome.

You'd swear you were watching a film aftre viewing this.

I am crossing my fingers that Canon will introdue 24p for this camera.
 
Bottom line is Nikon needs to step up an and play their D3 version with Motion Capture if they have got it and it's ready to go.

That will really keep the ball going and change the paradigm as Nikon can go full manual and perhaps even a focus assist feature as they don't have a camcorder segment to protect.
 
It looks like it was re-timed? Either way... I'm impressed, man. As far as straight image quality on the dollar this thing is intense.
 
That was outstanding. I am downloading the QT version now. I was really interested in the description of the workflow as I also have CS3 w/o a real-time card. I never thought of rendering to the targa format. One thing that bothers me is not being able to do a slow zoom very smoothly. Also, the limitations of not having a coventional camcorder type manual control of aperature and shutter speed. Otherwise, the inconvience may be well worth the superior quality image.
 
ESTEBEVERDE said:
Bottom line is Nikon needs to step up an and play their D3 version with Motion Capture if they have got it and it's ready to go.

That will really keep the ball going and change the paradigm as Nikon can go full manual and perhaps even a focus assist feature as they don't have a camcorder segment to protect.
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There have been rumors circulating that the D3x will be announced late Nov or early Dec and available by Feb. Of course, its going to cost... And who knows what, if any , video abilities it will have. And you know how rumors are, but it seems plausible that Nikon will tip their hand soon either way.
 
Thebes said:
There have been rumors circulating that the D3x will be announced late Nov or early Dec and available by Feb. Of course, its going to cost... And who knows what, if any , video abilities it will have. And you know how rumors are, but it seems plausible that Nikon will tip their hand soon either way.
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Hope So.


I think it will.

I think it will be manual control too!

If not, F! 'em!

That is a lost opportunity that shouldn't be so easily forgiven.
 
The low-light handling is insane... its worth buying the camera simply for the signal to noise ratio... Damnit why couldn't it'd be 24p..
 
Found a color corrected version on a 24p timeline. Some motion stutter but not THAT much. I ask myself if a more sophisticated workaround for 30p to 24p conversion would work fine...

ttp://vimeo.com/2061359
 
I was up at the Canon head offices here in Toronto shooting an industrial, yesterday... for the photocopier division.

I was all excited about the possibility of seeing the mark2 they had there, so the photocopy rep took me up to see the camera rep.. but the 5d was out being tested by the photojournalists from the Toronto Sun (bastards), and then of course the rep told me that I wouldn't be able to shoot anything with the camera even if he did have it (bastards)

So, how do these guys get to go leisurely shoot all this stuff and then post it at will.... boggles me! (bastards)
I'm just showing my envy here of course...
 
joe 1008 said:
Found a color corrected version on a 24p timeline. Some motion stutter but not THAT much. I ask myself if a more sophisticated workaround for 30p to 24p conversion would work fine...

ttp://vimeo.com/2061359
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I just re-timed a little chunck of that footage to 25p (for us in PAL land) and it looks great, no weirdness, just normal 25fps.

I didn't simply play the 30p back at 25p - but used After Effects to turn 2 seconds of NTSC/30p into 2 seconds of PAL/25p.

Worked surprisingly well, better than I thought.

http://www.vimeo.com/2069928
 
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Hi Lee!

You did post the wrong link, it leads to the original footage. This is the right one:

http://www.vimeo.com/2069928

At first sight it looks perfekt. But watching the legs of the man leaving the frame of the first shot you can see an odd movement, his left leg is literally jumping out of the frame. The same happens in the second shot, when the last girl of the group of three enters the frame. The right girl of that group also makes an odd movement when her right leg is passing along her left leg.

As I understand it, it is difficult for interpolation software to interpretate objects that enter or leave the frame or that get hidden by other objects inside the frame. Some programs allow you to mask such objects (like Twixtor) to "explain" to the software, where they come from, where they are and where they go to. But doing so in every situation would suppose a heck of additional work, I suppose.

Said this I must add that, in this footage at least, these are minor flaws I could live with. And thanks a lot to you, Lee, that you postet this example, I was waiting a long time for something like this and I hope more converted footage will follow because it might become a very important workaround with the 5D.
 
Pierre Petit said:
Is the 5d mkII for sale already in japan? I would not be surprised if a firmware hack would allow for 24fps eventually.
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I'm told by Yodabashi Camera Sales staff the Canon 5d mkII will be available here in Japan towards the end of November. Posters are up everywhere in stores already.
Cant wait.
 
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