Cinerama w/ 7D?

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TeresofBlood

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Has anybody considered or experimented with using 2-3 cameras a set distance apart and combining in post to get that scope look?

I'm guessing like 3d, a device would be needed to sync the shutters. Between my friends and I there are 3 7Ds, and it'd be pretty suite to use 2, never mind 3, as opposed to cropping or shooting anamorphic to get the scope look.

Thoughts, concerns, experiences?
 
last year I tried a single camera (what!) for a static test with a Panasonic GH1, moving the same camera to shoot the second camera position just for a quick experiment. The multi-camera Cinerama method has always interested me. I joined the left and right frames together in After Effects (my frame "overlap" was about a quarter). From those tests it appears shooting anything less than a 50mm lens (on the GH1) produced alignment problems for the two frames, so that made an unexpected limitation on the type of shots I could use. Wider focal length lenses caused a slight distortion which made matching them up convincingly almost impossible. I did try to slightly rotate first one frame and then the other (and both) to attempt a better fit with footage shot with a 35mm lens, but from an image quality point of view, I didn't like the idea of tilting the frames.

So, unfortunately, my tests don't further your interest much, but I just put it out there -- you're not alone in liking Cinerama!
 
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The generally accepted fact is that Canon only records every 3rd line for video. Right?

What if we had a firmware hack that would skip the upper and lower 1/3rd of the sensor and record EVERY line of the center 1/3rd? Anamorphic video of exceptional quality.
 
Its nice to have dreams about hacking this and that.It wont happen.

Anyway It would be so pointless to crop anamorphic so much and use only small area of sensor.
Or maybe you mean 3:1 aspect ratio withput anamorphic lens ,but anyway this wont happen.They could do that but they chose not to,they could do windowing for super 16mm lenses without line skipping but they didnt.
 
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I would agree that this is unlikely for the 7D, however the 5D's firmware has been successfully hacked with ML.

Reading every line of the center 1/3rd of the sensor would eliminate moire and create an anamorphic image.
 
Jay H said:
I would agree that this is unlikely for the 7D, however the 5D's firmware has been successfully hacked with ML.

Reading every line of the center 1/3rd of the sensor would eliminate moire and create an anamorphic image.
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That's my dream for a Tester13 type firmware, but I'm not holding out hope for that. Hence my desire to investigate Cinerama.

If you haven't seen this on blu-ray, check it out. How The West Was Won. That's 3 camera side by side. This must be possible with 7D! Anybody know of a device that will sync out the two shutters (probably necessary, but possibly not).
 
If I'd gone on with my After Effects tests, I was going to make key frames to have a moving edge crop within the 2-frame overlap area so that the "join" would change position at every frame, making it harder to spot. In the Cinerama theatre projections, the edges of joining frames were "blended" using projector attachments -- physical teeth which quickly moved up and down to help blur the overlap area of the frames!
 
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