5D mk 2 on a tv

ciencin

ciencin

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I saw footage online from the 5D and it look great, however how would it look when you view it on a lcd or hdtv?

Also I heard on nikon cameras the sensor gets overheated after a while and you need to take a break from shooting. Would this be the same for 5D?

Thanks,
Michael
 
I expect it to look great. Just watch a lot of the small segments on "Saturday Night Live" on the weekends....they use the 7D....so i expect the 5D to look good also.
 
The 5D does overheat but takes much, much longer to do so. As long as you shut off the live view for a while between takes, you should be fine in most conditions for a whole day.
 
A computer monitor is technically a dedicated video device. The technology is the same as home theater A/V, and it's just as adjustable. The only real difference is size.

I'm using a 67" DLP TV at this very moment as my computer monitor. :)
 
ydgmdlu said:
A computer monitor is technically a dedicated video device. The technology is the same as home theater A/V, and it's just as adjustable. The only real difference is size.

I'm using a 67" DLP TV at this very moment as my computer monitor. :)
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To my eyes I have never seen a computer monitor (the kind most have hooked to their PC/Mac; Apple Cinema Displays, Dells, etc.) come anywhere close to the same image a good plasma or LCD television can pump out.

But if your happy with it cool.
 
William_Robinette said:
To my eyes I have never seen a computer monitor (the kind most have hooked to their PC/Mac; Apple Cinema Displays, Dells, etc.) come anywhere close to the same image a good plasma or LCD television can pump out.
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That's because they are calibrated differently and fed a different set of input sources. Please explain how an LCD monitor designed for a computer is so dramatically different from an LCD TV. Isn't the technology exactly the same? An LCD display device is simply a liquid crystal display panel attached to a controller board and an inverter. There's no extra mojo beyond that. The computer monitor is still designed to render accurate colors and high contrast, you know.

Please break-down the criteria for evaluating the image quality of a display device, and explain how computer monitors perform differently from home theater displays in each criterion.
 
ciencin said:
I saw footage online from the 5D and it look great, however how would it look when you view it on a lcd or hdtv?
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I am currently color grading a short that was shot on a 5D. I have looked at the footage on my calibratd monitor, a 40" CRT, and 52" LCDs. It's really, really nice!

We are going to do a theatre projection next week so we'll see how that looks, but I expect it to look marvelous.
 
ydgmdlu said:
Please break-down the criteria for evaluating the image quality of a display device, and explain how computer monitors perform differently from home theater displays in each criterion.
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No.

Because:

I think anything on a dedicated video device...

To my eyes I have never seen a computer monitor...
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I thought this was clear enough that I am offering my opinion and not fact. And the best part is there is no way to hold any of this discussion to "fact" because we all see differently. I don't care if computer monitors or LCD televisions are manufactured using the exact same components. I think they look different.
 
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