Video equal, will you sell your 7D for a T2i?

Video equal, will you sell your 7D for a T2i?

  • Yes will sell 7D

    Votes: 30 13.8%

  • No, im keeping 7D

    Votes: 123 56.7%

  • Dont have a 7D

    Votes: 64 29.5%
  • Total voters
    217
Barry_Green said:
I guess what drives many of us batty is the "ostrich" mentality of many folks to simply not see, or not WANT to see, what the differences are. It's somehow that if we point out that a DSLR has aliasing, that's somehow taking away mr. indie filmmaker's dreams and his career.
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They must be spending all their time on the forums defending their DSLR instead of going out shooting films and discovering and overcoming its flaws. I think I'm going to rename my betrayal fest entry "moire city"

Many pro stills photographers are now making money shooting DSLR video with mixed results, Nikon and Canons core customer base will start to demand improved video specs and we will benefit.

I've personally shot stuff with the MKII that looks better than a couple of features I've seen shot with a RED and I only have a years cine experience so it certainly isn't the tool that maketh. Give me a 7 megapixel read and a 100mbps 4:2:2 codec and I'm in cine heaven.
 
squig said:
They must be spending all their time on the forums defending their DSLR instead of going out shooting films and discovering and overcoming its flaws. I think I'm going to rename my betrayal fest entry "moire city"

Many pro stills photographers are now making money shooting DSLR video with mixed results, Nikon and Canons core customer base will start to demand improved video specs and we will benefit.

I've personally shot stuff with the MKII that looks better than a couple of features I've seen shot with a RED and I only have a years cine experience so it certainly isn't the tool that maketh. Give me a 7 megapixel read and a 100mbps 4:2:2 codec and I'm in cine heaven.
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We'd love to see it. Just decent looking DSLR material in general. Which boils down to having nothing to do with camera, but what's behind it and in front of it.

Please post! We all need inspiration.
 
shaocaholica said:
Totally agree that you can't just sit around waiting for the 2nd coming. If you can only afford a vDSLR, then get something now and hope for the best in the future. My biggest gripe is when people insist that vDSLRs have peaked and will never better than what they are now even though they have been getting better since day 1.
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We've already come a long way from the D90 jello cooker
 
J Davis said:
Yes that is true and I agree, but realize that not every editor who says they are professional are professional and as I said before, not everyone in the chain of people who will touch the media cares as much about the project as you.

Given all of that, 9 times out of 10, a producer will hire a shooter with a 7D over a GH1 which was my original point. Don't believe me? ask kholi about renting out 7D's
(he was saying somethign silmilar in a thread yesterday)
The only exception would be if the GH1 shooter had an awesome reel.

edit: actually my original point was, if u are doing stuff for yourself, get a GH1 because its a better cam, if you are getting gigs, get a 7D, beleive me as I've owned both.
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Indeed. And, despite the uncoolness that is the MKii, that thing still goes out as well. I suspect when the MKii gets 24P it'll go out more than the 7D, because for some reason people think throwing everything out of focus is awesome....
 
Kholi said:
We'd love to see it. Just decent looking DSLR material in general. Which boils down to having nothing to do with camera, but what's behind it and in front of it.

Please post! We all need inspiration.
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You have to wait for betrayal fest. I just got it down to 6min yesterday. Still have to grade it and do a score and some narration.
 
squig said:
You have to wait for betrayal fest. I just got it down to 6min yesterday. Still have to grade it and do a score and some narration.
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Sweet, looking forward to seeing that. The prospect of "better than RED feature films" makes my hair stand on end with anticipation.

Good luck, man.
 
Barry_Green said:
We did occasionally try to get someone to pull focus but it was silly because the SLR doesn't even have a locking pin to keep it pointed straight on the tripod, so as soon as you added any lateral torque in the way of a follow focus, you ended up with the SLR pointed the wrong way on the tripod plate. It was kind of ridiculous.
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I've been having the same problem and I think I've found a solution-
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...emDetail&Q=&sku=554160&is=REG&si=rev#features
 
shaocaholica said:
What about an L-plate? Those sometimes have contoured sides that prevent twisting not to mention the fact that its an L-shape.
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Do you have a specific one in mind? I haven't seen one that I think would a) have a universal fit and b) solve the twisting problem
 
Ian-T said:
well....you gotta give'm what they want...
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and they always think oh the sensor is bigger? then it must be better!
I can see FF working for some situations, aps-c is a good working medium, really keen to start working with 2/3 dof
 
If anything is going to kill the 7D it will be the 5D MKii 24P update. Barring that it doesn't make the camera worse than it already is, I'm pretty positive that the rental market will shift BACK to the MKii strictly because of the sensor size and "flexibility" the MKii provides.

There are a lot of projects that simply want to be composed in a 2.40:1 frame, the MKii is a pretty good candidate for this and, admittedly, does look pretty awesome when composed @ 2.40:1 and cared-for in post properly.

It's this reason that I believe I will sell two 7Ds and keep my MKii (aside from stills), having two 7Ds and 1 MKii leftover for all small projects.
 
J Davis said:
maybe wait till the update arrives first, its been a long time coming so I hope it happens
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There's another reason I'm dropping a few cameras, it's labeled M-X #81. Haha. And soon, M-X #89X

Still gonna keep a pair of DSLRs for dirty work, though.
 
Did I miss the discussion about bitrate? I doubt that the T2i will require Class 10 for video. With Class 6 card the speed is limited to 48 Mbit/s at best, less 20% or so to be safe, the bitrate should be 40 Mbit/s or less. The 7D has what, 48 Mbit/s ?
 
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