09-25-2008, 01:01 PM
Mike V wrote:
It has some serious limitations, like no way to change the frame rate or shutter speed.
This has more ramifications for PAL countries with 50 Hz power than it does for you guys in the States though.
Being able to under- and overcrank is a nice-to-have, but the lack isn't a deal breaker for folks buying video cameras.
It would, however, be weird not to be able to set the shutter speed.
I am not sure I understand why either of these features would matter more to the rest of the world than they would to the US and Japan?
The global shutter effects (i.e. jello-cam) on the 5D Mk II seem to be surprisinglyminmal.
The skew on the pan (the jello clip to which papercup linked), is a rolling shutter effect and it has to do with the way the data is read-out from the CMOS sensor. The sample video appears free of skew and squash -- but it also appears free of the fast pans and tilts that would exhibit these artifacts.
Again, I wonder if this is because the shooter just doesn't think in terms of pan, tilt, dolly, track... or if the panning footage was unusable.
The low-light capabilities of the camera appear to be the low-light capabilities of some pretty fast lenses. He lists eleven lens changes for the short -- with relative apertures down to f/1.2.
It would be interesting -- in a purely academic sense --to compare the footage from the 5D.2 to footage from a an XL-H1 mounted with the same lenses.
More useful and informative would be to put this camera into the hands of a videographer and see what most annoys him or her.