Can anyone give us raw mov 5D mark 2 files to work with before purchase?

[Ruben/Sheri]

Gonna purchase 5D mark 2 soon but not sure, I was hoping if anyone would be kind enough to give us some cinestyle or anything raw mov files strait out of the 5D mark 2 so we can play with the footage in our editor and see how it handles before our purchase thanks in advance :thumbsup:

 

[El Director]

All the Canon DSLRs spit out the same video files, I'm sure there's something out there from one of the models. Worst case scenario, take your laptop or memory card to a camera store and tell the sales person you want to get some test footage. That's what we ended up doing.

 

[Samuel H]

I don't have a 5D2, but if what you're worried about is the codec, this may be useful:
www.similaar.com/aarchive/c100_0005.MOV

it's a file directly from my 550D (T2i), shot with vintage Leitz glass (I think it was the Elmarit-R 35mm f/2.8, set at f/4, but I'm not sure), and using cheap Tiffen ND screw-in filters
it was shot with the following settings:
picture style: Technicolor Cinestyle (now I use Flaat)
contrast: -4
saturation: +3 (nearly at maximum, to me CineStyle requires this, otherwise final images end up being too noisy in the color channels)
sharpening: 2 (I like to get a tiny bit of sharpening in camera, if you add it all in post codec issues are amplified)
white balance: custom, set using WB cap

 

[Ruben/Sheri]

thank u =)