Prague: Canon 1DMKIV from Philip Bloom.
OK, so this new video was shot with a pro camera costing 5 grand, but given the rate at which expensive tech moves into the lower cost realms, imagine what a $250 point and shoot at Walmart will be able to do in a few years.
The 1D Mark IV uses an APS-H-sized 16-megapixel sensor that’s “similar in size to a Super 35mm motion picture film frame” with a 1.3x crop factor (so not full-frame, booo) , and a normal ISO range of 100 to 12,800, with expanded going up to 102,400 ISO (like Nikon’s fresh D3s). The new 45-point autofocus system has 39 cross-type points and uses a new AI Servo II AF predictive focusing algorithm that’s supposed to be faster, which is handy, since it shoots in 10fps bursts.
But, let’s talk about video, which Canon isn’t too shy of making the star of this camera: You get full manual exposure control, stereo mic input, and 1080p video at 24, 25 or 30fps; 720p and standard def at 50 or 60fps
So–does it make color videos too?
Nice! Very film like. Amazing low light resolution. It still looks a little “vidioish” in a few shots but…wow.
This is so much better than the Sony DNW-90WS I use for news that lists for $54,000.00. Low light night video looks like crap on the Sony. This $5,000.00 SLR, using L series lenses, beats the heck out out it. Of course, the DNW-90WS is eight year old technology. Nonetheless, the replacement cameras Disney are buying this year are cheap consumer grade Panasonic junk with even WORSE performance than the old Sonys, and really cheesy lenses. TV news sucks. So. If I pick up this camera, my amateur video will kick ass, and my TV news video will, suitably, look like shit.
I have a Canon 40D and a 20D, plenty of L Series lenses, and will wait for a full frame camera like the 5D Mark II.
Here let me try it..
poignant, no?
No.
Just wanted to know….how much of that video depends on finding the right things to video, and the person taking the video.
- I really don’t understand that much about cameras, but how much of a difference does it make using that camera…
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I understand that next year they’re bringing out a color version.
It’s about the artist, not the hardware. You’re much better off with a good photographer and a lousy camera than the other way around. Grand things has been done with pin hole cameras.
“…but given the rate at which expensive tech moves into the lower cost realms, imagine what a $250 point and shoot at Walmart will be able to do in a few years….” – there are some fundamental engineering restrictions for el’ cheapo cameras to compare to these results at any point in time. We have reached a point where electronic parts have achieved full ability to take advantage of high end optics available. To get results as in this video you need equivalent optic quality of Canon L lens. Engineering and production of those have reached “cheapening” limits. Second problem is physics of sensors/materials. Canon is getting so good result mainly due to complex post-capture noise processing and sensors at the physical limit of quality. You don’t make those at fast production line in the middle-of-nowhere. Brand new technologies are needed for these barriers to breakdown and those are not anywhere in sight. Good measure is recent appearance of gimmicky 4/3 cameras. Harbingers of gimmicks like those brought to us by film-photography at the time when it have hit its own limitations.
This camera proves AGW is a hoax.
What is the point? I, like most Americans, just want a camera that will work, leave out the technical mumbo-jumbo and say what the camera does in plain English. Does it take great pictures in the dark? Yes or no? Does it have a great zoom? Yes or no? The jargon – “similar in size to a Super 35mm motion picture film frame” with a 1.3x crop factor (so not full-frame, booo) , and a normal ISO range of 100 to 12,800, with expanded going up to 102,400 ISO (like Nikon’s fresh D3s). The new 45-point autofocus system has 39 cross-type points and uses a new AI Servo II AF predictive focusing algorithm that’s supposed to be faster, which is handy, since it shoots in 10fps bursts – is useless to someone like me and is the main reason that most people get crappy cameras, they don’t understand what they are purchasing! Make it simple for the dumbed-down masses, please!
riker17, No camera for you!
#12 – What is AGW? I would suggest that a dictionary of acronyms be added to this site for those of us who are not initiated in the ways of Dvorak.
[Anthropogenic Global Warming - ed.]
My HD Flip cost me less than $200.
Shoots High Dev video, and pretty good looking if I do say so myself.
Want to improve your video shooting?
Quit moving the camera around while your recording!
Try taking a 1 minute video with ANY video camera holding it still, you’ll have a video about 1,000% better than anyone else in your family! LOL
#16: Either Anthropogenic Global Warming or Anti-Global Warming.
Id be more impressed if this was raw video straight from the camera with no post processing done.
#18 – I agree, that would be the true test of a camera’s ability.
#17 – Thank you, but I wonder how this camera (and I assume we are talking about the camera and not the crappy b&w film above) proves anything related to global-warming?
#16 – A flip is the way to go it would appear for ease of use and simplicity, I just wish it had a mic input on it for an external wired or wireless microphone. That is among the features I look for on a camcorder.
I am looking at purchasing the Cannon EOS 7D which was just released, its the semi-pro version which can do more than all I need to do and at 3.5K less.
Plus is it a coincidence that Windows 7 and the EOS 7D are released at the same time. I think not.