Canon announce 7D
This camera has been anticipated with bated breath for a while and it promises to produce fantastic images.
Of note is the video which makes a great case for the convergence of stills and moving pictures.
Where oh art thou oh fabled RED scarlet?The masses await your arrival.
It’s not perfect and from my initial observations of original footage around the interweb – there are still aliasing artifacts as in the 5D,no uncompressed HDMI the rolling shutter is better controlled but still there somewhat and one will need to use profiles to get it looking less like video.However in the right hands this tool will produce some amazing story telling.I personally prefer the Depth of field adaptor look from my SGBlade and HFS10 recorded to my DIY cineform recorder but it has it’s limitations – mainly poor low light performance.I suppose that is where this camera could fill the gap or indeed Canon could release a firmware update for my EOS 5D mark II.That would do nicely…..
Now my rant for the day has to do with Panasonic.They could have made the GH1 so much better.They have a new codec coming out that does 12 bit 4:4:4 called AVC Ultra for their professional models but they gave the camera by most judgements an inferior codec.Whether this is by design or not I am not sure but they have given ground to Canon by not giving a superoir codec on the GH1 – and it is in their reach.Please Pana – get a fantastic codec on the GH1 and I will buy one.Especially the AVC-ultra.It is the perfect size to fit in my portable Cineform recorder….or even better to recover sales – give it uncompressed HDMI – this is the future and Nikon may have an offering soon.Please, please pretty please?
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