Wow. I'm very impressed with quality of image. I'm seriously thinking of selling my D300 for this. What lens was this?

Thanks Drew, I think I love you. ;)

Quality does not look that great on 720p in this clip. I'm currently looking into doing some kind of upconversion to 1080p with added grain, then recompressing down to 480p for a cleaner image.

The lens is the kit lens at 18mm f/3.5. Focus is relatively deep at that setting, so I didn't need to pull. I wasn't even testing it for quality in particular... just trying to show that all of the overreaction about "crazy skew" is only because of shaky handheld footage that doesn't look good with any camera (IMO).

thanks for this sample with a steadicam. was looking for something like that. did you have VR on? also the cheaper wide zooms are not sharp at 18mm, f/3.5 (wide open lens, wide open aperture). they are soft with lower res on edges.
i don't think upsampling will improve anything. make sure you use a hyperfocal chart to know exactly where the dof is.

wow, thanks for sharing!

at 18mm i seriously expected less of a wide shot, i can only imagine the goodness of the Nikon D90 with my 10-20mm Sigma *drools*

VR was on, I believe.

Sorry that I'm 19 days late. :p

Hey Drew, thanks for that video! I have a steadicam as well, but before I take it off "permanent" my dvx settings, may I ask what your settings were for the merlin? How many weights you had on the bottom/front and what letter you balanced it on? I'm sure it will all depend on what lens I use as well though, but I'd rather have an idea of some settings before I mess with mine.

Yeah, 5DMKII's video is much better but this isn't terrible.

Oh, and what lense did you have on?