7D 2048 x 930 resolution chart. How good it really is

[Ted Ramasola]

The Canon 7D with Magic Lantern raw video+sound is now maturing as a reliable raw camera, this is how good its 2048 x 930 crop mode video looks like. At 23.976fps with no VAF filter.
At this resolution, the 7D can record continuously at 23.976 to fill up a 1000x CF card.
Sound is sync with no drift. Just nudge it back 1-2 frames on the timeline.

 

[Samuel H]

I love ML RAW but only when it reads the whole sensor. That's a 4.1x crop factor, I'd rather shoot with a BMPCC.

 

[Ted Ramasola]

Shot this with an 11-16mm Tokina this morning, since it was a snowy "light dusting" weather, decided to rush out grab some shots.

All in crop mode. 2048 x 930 and edited on a 1920 x 1080 timeline. Downscaled it 93.8 %.

The ambient sound is actual recorded sound via internal mic.

 

[Ted Ramasola]

I realized how almost all clips from the sample I posted above were soft. This was due to the difficulty I had in getting proper focus using the crop mode. The LV is low resolution/pixelized and not in realtime.
I discovered later that cycling through the info button brings up a clean 5X magnify which I can now use to quickly check for focus.
Unlike the 5D2 that you can use the 10x magnify to confirm focus, in the 7D, pressing 10x magnify freezes the lv so I disabled 10x in zoom tweaks ML menu.

When another snow storm hit us in Dallas last week, I quickly went out and retook similar looking scenes and uploaded the clip, this time in 2K in YoutTube.