The Underachiever Life

  It’s been a very exciting morning here at the tubbynerd bunker. If you have been following the twitter, you will know how desperate I have been to get my hands on the Canon 5D mkII.  Thanks to the brilliant JB-HiFi  in Melbourne, mine was delivered yesterday.

As I was setting up the camera last night, I took some shots around our lounge room which was in complete darkness except for the light of the television. These shots are all handheld

Click here to see my Canon 5D MKII test shots.

 It is important to note, that these images are straight from the camera and apart from some cropping I have done nothing to them.

I have to say though, the reason I was so keen to get the camera was it’s groundbreaking video. There was a lot of excitement and hype around this. I recorded this piece, to really test its capabilities to the limit.

First up, there is No light. Seriously — I mean it, there is NO light. I had a monitor on in the background with constantly changing light and I use the internal microphone.

A-HA,  come on Ed, you used a really expensive lens to shoot this.

Nope.  I used a 50 mm 1.8 lens  which I bought  with the camera yesterday for $149 Australian dollars.  I could have used my fancy pants 50 mm but like I said, I really wanted to test the camera.

What about sound, did you use a lapel mike.

Nope.. This is straight into the camera.

Would I do video like this traditionally, of course not. But it is very liberating to know that I could if I needed to.

It is important to point out that it is not like using a handy cam -  there is no autofocus so you have to set your focus the old-fashioned way by distance or, do what I did and cheated by focusing on the head stock of my Fender  and I just made sure I sat at the same distance to the camera as the head stock…

Crude, but very effective.

Here is the youtube version, if you have the option, please watch the high-definition version (I know it’s not that high-definition but let’s face it from a marketing perspective you need to have your video on youtube!). The magic really happens, when you take a few moments to right click on the video below and download it to watch on your computer. Prepare to weep.

 (I tried everything I could,  to ruin this video,  they Canon just laughed and delivered)

If you’re on a Macintosh, you can just click the link and it will start playing as soon as it has built up a buffer, Windows users, right click and save it to your disk drive.

YouTube Canon MKII 5D example (watch the Hi-def version if you can)

Click here to download the rendered version of the Canon MKII 5D example (Right Click if your on Windows!!!

Ed

Tags: Canon5D mkII, Internet Marketing, Thirty Day Challenge Plus

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