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5D Mark II Video – One Year In
Feb 6th
When I purchased my 5D I told myself I’d try my hand at a video. Well, one year later I’ve finally worked up the ambition to learn some video editing and publish something This video represents the past year of owning this camera. I learned a great deal in the process (mostly about how to shoot better source footage for the future), but I hope you all enjoy it. Click here to go to the Vimeo page to view in HD or download the original 1080p source. The non-HD (bleh) version appears below1.
5D Mark II One Year from Paul Kehrer on Vimeo.
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New Camera in Hawaii
Jan 22nd
I recently replaced my Canon Rebel XTi with a 5D Mark II, so I thought I’d share a few shots I got with the new camera while on vacation in Hawaii. The higher resolution and (much) lower noise has been the biggest advantage at this point, but it helps that I now have two L glass lenses (70-200 f/4L IS and 24-105 f/4L IS). I’m still on the fence about whether I like the new auto ISO features as I find myself turning it off and controlling ISO manually quite frequently.
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FileVault Performance With Lightroom
Jan 8th
I have recently begun switching from Aperture to Lightroom for my photography workflow (look for another blog post about that at some point), but on my new unibody Macbook Pro I noticed that Lightroom appeared to be unbearably slow when dumping large volumes of data. I suspected that FileVault (which I only keep enabled on my work laptop) was the culprit, so I decided to perform a few benchmarks.
Test SetupThe import was performed using a Sandisk Extreme USB 2.0 CF Reader with a Lexar 8GB UDMA card. There were 113 21MP RAW files (beach photos from a 5D Mark More >