Canon 5D Mark II : Canon's 5D Mark II: The World's First Forbidden HD Video, Finally Official!!

Posted on Thu Nov 06, 01:06 by softwarera
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GOOD! new.................Can not afford to buy

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Posted on Thu Nov 06, 04:45 by koji
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WOW... this is what will be a serious issue for all those 35mm adapter-companies. Who is going to mount an optic on a camcorder when you can do pretty the same with a 5D? How much will that beauty be? If you do alittle postproduction this video would have looked as it was shot in film... at least not more or less than the 35mm adapter do.

But in some scenes the picture was green-ish... beta... well... ok. nice job!

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Posted on Thu Nov 06, 08:52 by olasPolare
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why is basically every shot overexposed?
not impressed with the exposure latitude of this, not much better than a consumer videocamera.
can sense a bit of rolling shutter jello in the first escalator shot, but theres not very much other shaky shots to judge how the camera handles this.

also video was a bit long, did it really need two whole songs?

still looks like lots of fun to make, ahw i miss tokyo now

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Posted on Thu Nov 06, 09:07 by Ash, IT qt work Home amature photographer, Fort Wayne, IN
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Quality of the video was way beyond what I was expecting. What was the song called btw?

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Posted on Thu Nov 06, 09:11 by Ryan, Philadelphia, PA
Home Page: http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/10/10/without-further-ado-reverie/
First? I take it you guys haven't seen the "Reverie" video by Vincent Laforet?

he shot the first public video with this camera, back in September. Check here:

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/10/10/without-further-ado-reverie/

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Posted on Thu Nov 06, 03:55 by David_M, Photographe/Caméraman, Tokyo
Home Page: http://www.lejapon.fr/blog/
Ryan -> Yes first ! Vincent Laforet is an offical video maker from Canon and he have been pay for that ! We have making that un-officially it's why Canon have forbidden this video... and only yesterday they say "ok you can publish it" !

So that the first unofficial video of 5D Mark II, and the proof of wath we can make without any team and few normal lens. Only 2 guy have work on it ! And I'm one of them

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Posted on Thu Nov 06, 05:08 by JasonCollin, photographer, Tokyo
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Sweet video guys. It's very impressive and you got a lot of good footage in just 3 days of shooting.

I was impressed with Daily Motion's video quality as well. Is it better than Vimeo's?

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Posted on Thu Nov 06, 08:52 by halc
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Great video, many thanks.

We need more panning shots, please pretty please.

Only way to assess how the cam copes with the jello-effect.

Next time, try underexposing by 1/3 or even 1/2 stop by default. May help a bit with the over-exposure.

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 12:14 by Stuggy, IT drone, Philadelphia
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What was the music used in the video? I particularly LOVE the second song! I very much want a copy!

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 12:18 by Madmolf, Web something, Limoges, france
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Congratulations. With all due respects to V. Laforet, his film is just technical display of the camera's possibilities. Your movie is... a movie, not only are the pictures great, but it also conveys emotion and nostalgia of the time in Tokyo. I find it has a poetic value akin to "Koyaanisqatsi" (google it and watch it).

Good job and i hpe to see more films done by your team.

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 01:39 by PaulieDC, Visual Studio Developer, Ohio
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Vincent Laforet is NOT an Official Video Maker for Canon. They didn't even ask him to DO Reverie. HE went to Canon and said let me shoot video and they agreed to let him use the camera for 72 hours to do "whatever". That "whatever" was paid for by Vincent himself (including $2000 for renting a helicopter), and it was his FIRST VIDEO he's ever shot. Credit where credit is due folks.

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 01:56 by pookapooka, us
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Can you only shoot with autoexposure? In all the footage examples I've seen, in Vincent's video too, every shot seems to be set to auto exposure. That's useless for anyone trying to control the look. Does anyone know?

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 02:01 by Avaro, Tech Consulting, Madrid, Spain
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This is simply gorgeous, can't wait to get my hands on mine. Anyway it seems that is going to be needed to develop certain technique of film making.

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 03:20 by KKohl, Photographer, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Nice Work! Please Continue. I am looking forward to getting a 5DII in a few weeks.

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 04:03 by Photographer, photographer, seattle
Home Page: http://www.abeautifuldayphotography.com/
Thank you for doing this. I too, want to return to live in Tokyo.

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 06:30 by JD, student, San Diego
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Great movie! And the music is great too, who is this?

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 08:27 by Clark, photographer, London
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Actually it is not the worlds first 5D video on the web.
Last week the Danish Press Photographers website had 2 videos from the 5D.

http://www.pressefotografforbundet.dk/teknik/index.php?id=10989

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 09:07 by koji
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when will the 5d be avaiable

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 09:11 by Cloudform
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The first song is "Strings that Tie to You" by Jon Brion, for the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Not sure about the other.

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 11:41 by HD, garbage collector, USA
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second song is

Kraked Unit - Poupées russes

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 01:30 by Andizzle
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If you wanna see panning shots, go see the other video by Vincent.

http://www.vincentlaforet.com/

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 03:41 by Jonnnny
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What's so great about a bunch of Japanese people going about their everyday life?

Color is OK, poor depth of field though. Hard to really tell anything else from this low resolution streaming video.

I'll still take a XHA1...

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 04:12 by Kei, USB Key Specialist, Tokyo, Akihabara, Koiwa
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@ Jonnnny, you'e simply Out of Topic man...

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Posted on Fri Nov 07, 09:46 by SergeyDubenco, web-development, Ukraine, Odessa
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Nice video!

I hope soon to see your new film

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 12:06 by Koooooichiroooooo, CEO, Yokohama
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Cool video!
This is real Tokyo of everyday but I feel greater deal of atmosphere in this movie.
Actually I don't like Tokyo so much, but now I get to like Tokyo a little bit more.
Maybe no one thinks that you are recording a movie with a still camera like EOS, so the commuters behave so naturally I guess.
I think this is one of the biggest merit of movie function on 5D MkII.

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 12:36 by fabio1234, research, geneva
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No real image stabilisation. This is clearly visible here. A bit disapointed.
Do not see any advantages over a real video camera.

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 01:35 by Kei, USB Key Specialist, Tokyo, Akihabara, Koiwa
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@fabio1234, Because, may be it's not a Video Camera. Lot of people forget that point. And if, it was better than video Camera, the Video Camera market would be dead...

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 06:06 by CarolS, engineer, Stockholm
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Nice "on the road movie".It looks like this camera is good for taking snapshotvideos at a zero budget level.Excelent work gays!

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 07:27 by juliengeekinc, IT, bordeaux, france
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Great job guys !

Super boulots les gars ! ça donne vraiment envie de se balader à tokyo !

A+

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 02:07 by jcruz
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Good bye REd One?

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 05:15 by andersemanuel, happycamper, Kavlinge
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I see the same artifacts horizontally as in Panasonics .mov files.
Nervous and unstable. I wonder if this is the quicktime format or the camera files producing this.
ANY basic camcorder does a better job. Sony, and Canon pocket IXY, IXUS or SD series produces a smoother more eyepleasing movie.
I hope it is the macbook pro editing that screwws up the film.
more raw film from the camera please .
So I can make up my mind if this is any good.

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 05:53 by Matt53, Japan
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The only thing that I really noticed was maybe the AI servo focus having a slight problem. In the scene with the ambulance, I think the ambulance was supposed to be the subject of that clip. However, when they were panning to the left, it seemed like the autofocus had a slight problem keeping the ambulance in focus. I don't know how the video function is supposed to work, but if it uses the same focus settings as photo mode, then I think that makes my assumption true. But seeing as how the camera has not yet been publicly released, I guess that's something that is still left to be seen.

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Posted on Sat Nov 08, 08:25 by Mrgee, Cameraman
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Very interesting, where can I find out more.. what is the video recorded onto?
How much video can be recorded? Any compression?
Lots of questions?
Hopefully some answers eventially..

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Posted on Sun Nov 09, 06:39 by Norberto, Buenos Aires - Argentina
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Excelent video, great work in such as small time. My congrutulations to you guys. I got shocked. Why are you discussing about exposure, shoots, musci, please this is free and made in a couple of days, came on...

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Posted on Mon Nov 10, 04:00 by Shi_Ju, Moscow
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Any chance of downloading this movie in .avi or .mov?

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Posted on Wed Nov 12, 01:42 by sebas, Canada
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very nice work !

felicitation, bravo super

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Posted on Wed Nov 12, 10:05 by MaxHodges, Tokyo
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> it was his FIRST VIDEO he's ever shot. Credit where credit is due folks.

Laforet had a filmmaker help him--read the credits. it's not he just picked up a video camera for the first time and make a create film. he had an experienced director do it with him.

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Posted on Wed Nov 12, 10:40 by kentcourtney, Producer, Mid-Atlantic, United States
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I love Japan. Watching the Ginza, commuter trains and the Shinkansen brought back a lot of wonderful memories. What a fantastc camera, also. Tape formats are becoming obsolete - although I've got to wonder how many memory cards they used for these two shoots. Now, I'll find a way to get to Paris.

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Posted on Sun Nov 16, 04:22 by denko
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Nice video. Could have done without the "actor"... made the title "Tokyo Reality" misleading.

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Posted on Tue Nov 18, 05:51 by bobby
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Anyone who is slamming the quality of this footage is either not working under the real-world constraints of low budgets, or is working on large-budget film shoots. It looks great, and I'd love to see a video camera in the $3000. price range come close to doing what this camera does. Great stuff guys.

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Posted on Sun Nov 23, 04:00 by branson, designer, boston
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Anyone noticing the lenses used for this vid? 3,000 dollar budget? No... At least 10K. Still impressive, and some blown out areas but could have been compensated for. Is there HDR Video yet? Either way, some sharp shots with very narrow depth of field... nice vid.

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Posted on Mon Nov 24, 06:47 by miles, gatoing, behind you
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Hey, about the focus lag... I read the blog of one of the two people that made the movie, and the one who filmed focused manually

>>> Original post by video author David, which gives you even more details about the vid - juste read before criticizing :

http://www.lejapon.fr/blog/index.php?2008/11/05/744-tokyo-reality-premiere-video-hd-non-officielle-faite-avec-le-canon-eos-5d-mark-ii

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Posted on Mon Dec 15, 01:05 by justsomeguy, Florida, U.S.
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Some people are so picky. I enjoyed it as much as the Reverie video. Well done.

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Posted on Mon Dec 29, 06:16 by bobmac
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why can't canon make video that doesn't have the rolling shutter jello-vision? I'll pass on this camera thanks.

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Posted on Fri Feb 27, 12:55 by JonWestcott, Photographer, London
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So easy to criticise!

I think for a first attempt with a new piece of technology your film is great..

Well done!

Love to see what the 'critics' could produce - I won't hold my breath though...

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Posted on Sun Mar 08, 04:16 by Vidman, Pro
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Not sure why people are excited about the 5D video. It is average at best. Of course, if you are taken in by Canon marketing, you will believe it is the answer to all our video needs. I have seen much better video than this from cheaper video cameras.

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Posted on Mon Mar 09, 05:54 by fres
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Damn now I wanna live in Tokyo

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Posted on Fri Apr 03, 03:39 by Luccio, CEO, Vietnam
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This is a really nice video. 5D is really a top-of-the-line machine. And Tokyo is way too cool. Thanks for sharing this video here.

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Posted on Fri Apr 10, 06:03 by Meek
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Wow! The video looks so clear!

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Posted on Wed Apr 22, 12:02 by Zane, student , videographer, santa barbara ca
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Hello I've been checking out the canon 5d mark 2, and although the video looks great
i'm not sure if its quite pro quality. I heard/read that it has jelloing issues due to its single ccd and aliasing artifacts. I know the still image aspect of the camera is awesome, however i'm still not sure of the video. I'm doing this research independently for a group of friends wanting this camera for primarily video use which i feel is the wrong reason. Any body care to shed some light either pros or cons. Thanks

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Posted on Sat Oct 31, 10:05 by ugg, CEO, New York
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Thank you for your share ,very great!

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Posted on Fri Nov 06, 08:43 by Vern, IT Manager, Calgary
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What lenses did you use?

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