Yesterday I crossed my fingers, held my breath and installed Magic Lantern software on the Canon 50D. One of the things this adds is the ability to shoot silent video. I'll make a more detailed comment about the ML software abilities another day.
This is the first video I took this morning of one of the Great Tit adults on the peanut feeder. Even with a 400mm lens it doesn't get as close in as my camcorders. This one was shot in wide screen:
A little later I decided to try the 640x480 aspect ration and was lucky that at least two of the baby Great Tits decided to make an appearance:
Nice to see at least two of them are learning where the free food is while the parents continue to search for food.
Glad it's working. Have you compared the quality these look fine to me.
ReplyDeleteAdrian: Original quality looks good. Both these were compressed to reduce upload times. On widescreen HD it uses 4GB for a 12min shot (about 5.5MB per second). It seems to me the colours are more natural than either of the video cameras but then the the lens cost much more that both the camcorders put together! If I keep ML I may look for a 1.4x (?) multiplier.
Deleteglad the software load went well. and yay for the smart babies!
ReplyDeleteGood to see the youngster fending for itself.
ReplyDeletecutie little Rollie Pollies :)
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