Entries Tagged as 'video'
Weird banding on Canon 7d explained!
December 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
The other night I was out filming traffic. I ended up getting a really weird camera artifact. It looks like a dark bar that rolls through the shot from bottom to top. At first it made me freak out a bit, thinking that the camera was somehow broken. I eventually figured out that it is [...]
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good gear to go with your shiny new canon 7d
December 20th, 2009 · No Comments
I can only hope that there will be a lot of other happy people unwrapping new cameras this christmas. I bought my 7d about a month ago, and the best/worst thing is that now I realize buying it is just the beginning. I want to buy sooo much gear to use with it, and it [...]
Tags: general geek · photography · video
Slow motion from the 7d. 720p60 to 24p How-to
December 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
There were a few different stages of excitement that I went through after getting my Canon 7d. First I played around with all of my manual nikon lenses (using an adapter of course). Next I marveled at the settings and the live view feature. Finally I decided I wanted to go out and shoot some [...]
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Canon 7d test video
November 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
here's a quick video I put together with my new dslr: the Canon 7d. I'll run down my gear and workflow in a lil bit, but for now, here's the vid.
Canon 7d test / Coffee facts
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Cheapest follow focus ever for canon 7d / 5d mark II
October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Ever since I have fallen in love with the Canon 7d dslr, I have been fantasizing about making a legit follow focus for a dslr. It allows you to have more control over the focusing, and a smoother camera because your rotation is in a different axis as the lens. (You may hear more of [...]
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CHDK Update
May 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
So as I referenced in an earlier post, I bit the bullet and bought a camera so I could test out CHDK. CHDK is a hacked firmware for canon cameras that use one of three imge sensors. I believe it is the digic 2, 3, and 4 sensors. It turns out that all of [...]
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How to use Ac power to replace the Nikon D40 battery
February 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments
I still haven't gotten the grip I mentioned a few posts ago. I don't know if I will. I have figured out a clumsy hack to get the job done and I might just run it this way, or perhaps clean it up a tiny bit.
This is the battery with little aluminum strips taped to [...]
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Arduino Intervalometer for my Nikon d40
February 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments
For those who don't know an intervalometer is, it tells your computer to take a picture every given interval. This enables you to shoot video with a still camera over a long period of time.
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Time Lapses
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments
I had a lot of time to kill over break, so I shot a bunch of timelapses. Here they are!
This is from a coffeeshop that I spent a lot of my time in.
This is of some clouds at dusk. This one has two separate positions, and it is really interesting to [...]
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7 questions for my avid fans
January 29th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Seeing as how I am constantly inundated by media requests - I figured I would use my podium here to ask the readers a few questions. I look at it as distributed googling really, and hopefully finding some vetted answers in the sea of confusion that is out there.
1) has anyone used CHDK here? It [...]
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