"Gluttony" - A T2i Test Short

Stephen Mick

Stephen Mick

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After getting the T2i yesterday afternoon, I thought I'd drag it along on a gluttonous outing to The Salt Lick (for barbecue) and to Gourdough's Doughnuts (for…well…donuts).

All footage was shot 1080/24p. Lenses used were the Canon 17-55mm f2.8 (barbecue) and the Canon 50mm f1.2L (donuts).

Again, this is just a fun test, that might make you hungry, to see what the T2i image is like indoors, outdoors and in low-light.



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Lookin' good (and tasty)!

I'm still amazed by the cinematic quality of this camera - to me, it looks the way film is supposed to.


If I can ask, what did you use to edit with it?

john
 
Edited in Final Cut Pro, but I deviated from my usual workflow a bit on this one.

Instead of transcoding to ProRes (like I usually do), I transcoded to XDCAM 422 (50-bit) instead. I wanted to see what that would to do file size and quality, and the results seem promising. I need to do more side-by-side tests with other codecs as well.

--SM
 
i have noticed a lot of T2i footage that seems to be colored with a bit of red/orange....as if the white balance is off a bit. is it just that people aren't white balancing for these indoor shots? is it difficult to white balance with this camera? or does this camera tend to color higher iso shots?
or is it something else entirely??
 
:happy:Damn you Stephen DAMN YOU! I am a die hard Que guy and I literally had to turn that off 30 seconds in because my stomach started growling. man that place looks amazing. aand the footage was good to.
 
averan said:
i have noticed a lot of T2i footage that seems to be colored with a bit of red/orange....as if the white balance is off a bit. is it just that people aren't white balancing for these indoor shots? is it difficult to white balance with this camera? or does this camera tend to color higher iso shots?
or is it something else entirely??
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The T2i isn't necessarily "harder" to white balance, you just don't have the options of the 7D and 5DII (or a traditional camcorder). You have Auto (bad), and the normal Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, etc. But you don't have the option to dial in the Kelvin temperature on the T2i.

With this footage, I wanted a warmer look for the barbecue stuff, and since it was a mix of daylight and tungsten light, I left it set on Daylight balance, knowing I'd have to do some correction on it. I also did this because I wanted to see how far I could push the footage from the T2i, and I was pleasantly surprised.

I'm going to try to shoot some more stuff this weekend, just to get acquainted with the camera better. It is a bit different than the 7D.

--SM
 
no manual white balance? even cheapo consumer digital cameras can manual white balance.
i've never had a video camera that you can dial in custom wb by going through the full kelvin range, numerically, so no trouble there for me.
in the 'old school' world of film, you'd have a set of grey cards for this purpose, warming or cooling your white balance as needed.
thanks for the info.
 
The T2i does have a manual (called "custom") white balance, but it's a bit wonky and a bit hidden in the main menu. This is why I always use the Kelvin scale on the 7D, it's more accessible and easier to dial in.
 
From the few clips I've seen from the T2i, it seems the images are not as sharp as other cameras or camcorders. Is this the trade-off for the low cost? I've seen HV20 footage that's sharper.

Other than that, it's got plenty of bokeh.
 
I wouldn't judge sharpness based on my footage, as it was more of a low-light test than anything else. The nighttime footage is shot a f1.2 (wide open) which doesn't do much for the sharpness of that lens. I've also dialed down the sharpness on my cameras, as many others have.

I'm not going to get into the whole "perceived sharpness" and "aliased detail" discussion, but what I see in the edit suite is sharper than the HPX170 footage I used to shoot, but not quite as sharp as EX1 footage.
 
I gained 4 pounds watching that footage.. How many ant acid tablets were ingested that night?
 
usually this is done because detail in-camera tends to add noise.
we'd rather shoot a cleaner image that's a little less sharp and slap on a sharpen filter in post.
the end result looks better that way and it's harder to remove noise in post than to sharpen.
 
There's a lot of yellowish CC'ing going on, that's the main reason for the color of the footage.

off-topic: You guys deep fry donuts?!
 
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