One feature that I love about the 7d over my old 550d

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mattdreyer

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Is the 8fps; not just for "sports photography".

I had to make it quite fast and long to fit in all the photo's from the weekend but skip to half way - works better than the start.


I didn't take the photo's with this in mind but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out anyway.
 
One day in the future I'd like to be able to shoot my "motion pictures" like this (2k sequence frames at 24 fps), to really use the image quality of an SLR for film making...Nice effort Matt.
 
TrueIndigo said:
One day in the future I'd like to be able to shoot my "motion pictures" like this (2k sequence frames at 24 fps), to really use the image quality of an SLR for film making...Nice effort Matt.
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Cheers!

And yeah, preaching to the choir! Here's hoping for the 7d MK 2.

Also wouldn't it be more like 20k?!
 
In still mode on my 60D I can set the aspect ratio to 16:9 and set the frame size to say "S1", which is 2,592 x 1,456. The jpeg downscale of course (in still mode) looks good -- wouldn't it be great if future processing engines could provide that image quality kept up for several minutes at 24 or 25 fps? Of course, it would be hard on the shutter life (hope that film hasn't aged your 7D too much!) so an electronic shutter would probably be needed -- Pentax did this with one of their previous cameras (the K20D from 2008) which had an impressive burst mode (1,500 x 1,000 best quality jpeg frames at 21 fps lasting for 115 frames).
 
c3hammer said:
Sweet mix of images and music! Full frame would be 5k roughly :)

Cheers,
Pete
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Thanks a lot!

Ahh okay, I naively assumed a 1K = 1MP. My bad!

One way to resolve moire :)

TrueIndigo said:
In still mode on my 60D I can set the aspect ratio to 16:9 and set the frame size to say "S1", which is 2,592 x 1,456. The jpeg downscale of course (in still mode) looks good -- wouldn't it be great if future processing engines could provide that image quality kept up for several minutes at 24 or 25 fps? Of course, it would be hard on the shutter life (hope that film hasn't aged your 7D too much!) so an electronic shutter would probably be needed -- Pentax did this with one of their previous cameras (the K20D from 2008) which had an impressive burst mode (1,500 x 1,000 best quality jpeg frames at 21 fps lasting for 115 frames).
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Thats really interesting! I did not even think about my shutter life.. my poor camera! Hypothetically, if my shutter died from too many actuation's would my camera be totaled or is this repairable?

Am I right in thinking the 8fps is a physical constraint of the shutter and not a processor bottle neck?
 
It's a tool, use it to death :)

If you wear out the shutter, you either have too much time on your hands or you're selling enough footage to afford what ever camera body you want :)

Timelapses are the ones that will kill your shutter. I have had my T3i for a month and a half and I'm close to 15k on the image count!

Either way that 8fps action is great stuff !

Cheers,
Pete
 
Don't know about the 7D, but the mechanical shutter of the Canon 5DII was tested to be good for 150,000 actuations. If you just take stills, that's not something you need to take into account. People using DSLRs for animation and frequent uses of the 8 fps for "film making" will obviously hit that limit much sooner. If you have you frame counter set to continuous (numbering), what frame count have you reached?
 
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c3hammer said:
It's a tool, use it to death :)
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Haha truer words never spoken.

I'm just under about 10,000 frames I think. Had the camera since the beginning of may.. so according to my rough calculations, if i keep at the same speed it should hypothetically last at least 2 years, touch wood.

I don't need a battery grip to truly attain the 8fps right? My friend mentioned some camera's needed one to get their maximum fps.

I need to get myself one of those sigma 30mm 1.4's. I used a 50mm 1.8 for it and it was an absolute nightmare... far to much of a telephoto and also terrible autofocus in the dark.
 
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