{"id":5094,"date":"2009-09-04T02:26:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T02:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2009-09-22T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:11:49","slug":"my-first-short-shot-with-the-canon-7d-shaving-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/my-first-short-shot-with-the-canon-7d-shaving-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"My first short shot with the Canon 7d: “Shaving it back”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only got it this morning, but me being me meant I had to get something up asap. Even though I am now in Dublin for the first F-Stop Academy Workshop this weekend. I took a few silly shots in the bar whilst having a proper man’s cocktail then went for dinner. So I didn’t start shooting this until just before midnight.<\/p>\n

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In Pal mode you can shoot 720p 50p or in NTSC mode 720p 60p. I went with 720p, made sure my shutter speed matched the frequency of the Irish power supply, 50hz, so I had the shutter at 1\/100th and shot the whole lot at 50p using just my Canon L series 50mm f1.2 (which effectively becomes an 80mm with the 1.6 crop \u00a0of the APS-C sensor) and my Canon 24mm f1.4.<\/p>\n

Basically I just filmed myself in the bathroom having a shave. Very simple test. Tiny room, no additional lighting. All shot at 100 ISO or 200 ISO. I used my Marshall 6.5″ monitor mounted on top of the camera to help me shoot myself. The monitor only displays 480p when recording but it is so sharp that monitor that I was able to get focus pretty much spot on. Very simple film. Shot by me and starring me. Everyone else was asleep sensibly!<\/p>\n

I brought the footage into my mac using my lexar fw800 reader. Converted to Pro Res LT with Mpeg streamclip then opened up Cinema tools and converted the whole lot from 50p to 25p which took about 5 seconds. What it does is simply change the metadata to say that the clip should play at 25fps instead of 50 which if you visualise it is almost stretching the clip out to 25p effectively doubling the length of the clip giving you perfect slow motion<\/em>. This was graded with Magic Bullet Looks from REDGIANTSOFTWARE.COM<\/a> use code bloom2o to get 20% off it at checkout.<\/p>\n

There won’t be a review of the camera properly from me yet as I need to spend more time with it. But all I can say is I love the 720p 50p mode and I shot a little at 24p earlier and I love this camera. It’s a joy to use and the images out of it are awesome. Much more intuitive than the 5d and simple video buttons on the camera and ability to re-assign buttons is very useful. Yes I miss my full frame of the 5dmk2, but I don’t miss the 30p. I really hope they can bring out firmware for the 5d…we shall see.<\/p>\n

If you can make Dublin this weekend we have just had one cancellation for the Sunday F-Stop Academy Urban Cinematography and there are a few spots left on Saturday so you can get hands on with all my equipment and that includes the 7d and Zacuto gear. More info here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Shaving It Back: Canon 7d<\/a> from Philip Bloom<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Filmed on a prototype Canon 7d in 720p 50p mode then converted to 25p using cinema tools to get overcrank.<\/p>\n

Music is by Chris Montez<\/p>\n

Shot with 50mm f1.2. and 24mm f1.4<\/p>\n