My First Video with The 7D

Hi Guys, this is my first video shot with the 7d Nauticam combo. Hope you like it. I have managed to edit this to 3.3 minutes. Its a herculean curve learning to edit video. Taken in July 2012 at Cenderawasih Bay

http://youtu.be/eegt0bMyLWU

Cheers,

Diggy

Incredible footage. They are just like house pets. I have the exact same system. When the subject changes distance you have to keep refocussing with the 7D. Compared to a camcorder that always keeps your subject in focus, I find it to be very frustrating.

Hal

I was going to ask at what distance did you set your focus to? Also, was the video shot all at the same focal length? I'm setting up a 7D for u/w, I'm used to a video camera where it can be in constant focus, so here, the trick is to keep the distance constant, but you can't do that. Do you stop shooting, re-focus, then shoot again?

I assume the lack of sharpness is due to all the compression you had to do to get the video to fit inside three minutes, correct?

Nice - Jim

Hi Guys, this is my first video shot with the 7d Nauticam combo. Hope you like it. I have managed to edit this to 3.3 minutes. Its a herculean curve learning to edit video. Taken in July 2012 at Cenderawasih Bay

 

http://youtu.be/eegt0bMyLWU

 

Cheers,

 

Diggy

Hi

Really it is grate Innovation !

I ended up going to a 7D MkII, solves the focus issue, but believe it or not, the focus motor makes a small noise that gets picked up by the camera's microphone, had to edit out the "noise." The video from the 7D MkII is better because of the focus issue.

Jim