Maxwell's House 16
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Episode 16 |
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| Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ray Maxwell Topic: Canon 5D Mark II Recorded: March 5, 2009 |
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The Canon 5D Mk II 1. 21.1 megapixels 5616 x 3744 2. 1920 x 1080 HD Video 3. ISO 100 – 3200 in Auto, ISO 50 – 25,600 extended 4. Documentation very bad on video 5. Battery price $180 in Canada, now dropped to $130 6. Controls that have an effect on RAW images 7. High Tone Priority effects RAW 8. Set contrast to minimum for histogram 9. Set mirror lock up, 2 second delay, and dark frame for long exposures 10. Compare to 5D 11. http://www.dxomark.com/ 12. Compare to Medium format cameras a. CCD vs CMOS b. Off chip vs on chip circuits c. Fill factor d. Canon 5D Mk II has anti-aliasing filter 13. What is aliasing, and morie? 14. What is Nyquist frequency? 15. MTF 16. What lenses should I use with this camera? 17. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-mtf.shtml 18. www.dpreview.com 19. What about the video performance? 20. Beautiful image, BUT, this is no camcorder… 21. Tripod 22. Manual exposure…no auto tracking 23. Manual exposure control: http://www.vimeo.com/2530166 24. Manual focus…use 5x, 10x and zoom in. 25. If Still display, view changes when you start recording. 26. Movie view gives 16:9 view. 27. Don’t listen to reviewers that comment on the color that a camera produces. 28. Cameras don’t have gamut’s. They produce numbers. 29. Play Lenswork podcast
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