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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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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$17 Arduino-based nikon IR intervalometer + code
September 30th, 2009 · 22 Comments
This is a project that allows me to take pictures at any (reasonable) interval. This allows the photographer to create time lapse movies with a digital slr. This is an arduino-based project that should work for any nikon camera with an IR port. Best of all it only cost $17!
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powering a nikon d40 from an ac outlet
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments
I have been shooting a lot of time lapses lately. The biggest problem with that is battery life. I have a very ghetto hack to power the camera from a cell phone charger, but I am looking for a more permanent solution. I found a fotodiox battery grip on amazon that has an internal battery, [...]
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