Some excellent footage, and I just love the way the blacks are crushed and are almost noise free.

I wish I could get the quality of the 5d in the XHA1 with the ability to overcrank and undercrank. Then I'd be happy, even if it was only for six months.

Bottom line is it's not what you got but how you use it. Your right the 5D is a flawed beast. Why the @#$%^ cant Canon bring out a Sony EX1 killer. Come on Canon pull your finger out.....

Cheers Greg. You can really push the footage out of the 5D far further than my XHA1 in FCP. The noise is still there but its far superior to anything else Canon has done so far. Thanks for watching.

Gives me a nasty case of "I want" :)

I agree, this is awesome.

What lenses were used for this? Also I'm new to FCP and wondering what effects you used for the fantastic look you've achieved.

Hi Nathan. I used three Canon Prime lenses, 24mm, 50mm, and 400mm. Most of the footage was straight from the camera apart from some de-saturation using color corrector 3 way in FCP and Widescreen option also in FCP. Also reduced the speed in a couple of clips to 80%. Thats basically it!!! Have fun with FCP. I have years to go before I know what I'm doing.

NICE JOB
I love the 2.10 scene

Thanks Frederic I live in the country so there is plenty of scenes like this around. Thanks for watching.

it looks like it very nice well shot but the color is just so great. Hey I was wondering if I could get your email address so we could keep in touch. Mine is Li5tenup@aol.com

Luverrlee. Can't wait for mine to arrive. Sometime this week. hopefully sooner rather than the later part of the week.
I've seen some stunning stuff with these cameras and I think the images outweigh the problems. (mind you I haven't actually had one in my hands yet, so that may be a premature statement…
Your images are part of that stunning collection. Thanks for showing us.
Avey

Awesome footage Michael - Does the D5 record sound and are there any issues with timecode when capturing into FCP?

Incredible!!

nice!

stunned by a professional work on a wonderful camera....once again.
Damn you 5D2

Thanks for all your kind words. Spencer email is michael@christianfletcher.com.au Phil 5D does record sound and no issues editing in FCP.

Tasty footage. Does the Canon shoot in that 2.35 : 1 aspect ratio? Or did you add that in Final Cut Pro?

Done in FCP.

Wow!

Does FCP edit the footage natively, or does it first transcode it to a different format?

fantastic! great low lights in here.

very impressive! would love to see a Vidcam brought out with this much awesomeness

What music is this Michael? Its such a fantastic choice to compliment the images! Well done mate!

YARR Good cinematography 5DMKII sure looks nice but what's up with the lensflare logo? $%%

Wow! I will say it backwards WOW what great video it is absolutely gorgeous. The night city scape is amazing. great video . Thanks for sharing with us on here Michael.

Nice little camera! are you kidding? That an understatement lol. Now I have a case of the I must have flu ha ha ha

Not only a nice piece of work, but excellent music to accompany the composition style. Way'ta'go!

We too use the XH-A1's and absolutely love them coming from the hard to work with P2 environment of HVX200A's and love the XH-A1's low light.

Now on the SLR side we use 100% Nikon's and settled in on the D300 and love it. So, as a back up we picked the D90 which appears to be a nice movie selection also. To that end, before picking up the D90 this past week from B&H, we have been studying the 5D MKii very closely and ALMOST bought one on Monday but the Canon guy talked us into the D90 (go figure) as he put it, we'd have to dump all our Nikon gear (several lenses, speedlights, etc.) and all that would get us one D5 and a lens while we'd get movie with the D90 for less than a Canon lens AND as he put it, the next generation cameras are just around the corner that go straight to QT movie files, smaller better high rez files, and equally important larger and better CMOS imagers that will give much lower light capability AND lots more controls.

To this latter accomplishment, SpecComm recently contacted us about a new JVC camera that came out with straight to QT on SD cards (WOW) and heard that Canon is secretly working on some kind of HD video camera that has 1/2" imagers . . now that would improve picture and low light alone besides the rep said, "don't be surprised if you see removable lenses" like the XH camera and for "reasonable price" . . we'll see about the reasonable . . hey?

Just for the heck of it, we'll shoot something equivalent with the D90 (although we'd never get those nice scenes you have) once we're up to speed a little when it arrives Monday but will run it through Avid since we aren't that up on FCP yet. We're learning it but there are just toooooo many things we like about Avid thus far (like native editing for one :o)

Again, loved the piece. Nice work !!

nice work!

GREAT shots!!!! Do you recall what ISO you where shooting at on the night time city skyline shot?

Very very very good their films, congratulations and good luck!

I'm saving every penny to get this cam fast!
I was waiting for LUMIX GH-1, but overall 5D has more superior (even for dig. stills 21 MP), less jello/wobble effects - what a DSLR beast

Amazing! Excellent job!