I agree, very beautiful footage. Reminded me of Gus Van Sants "Gerry".. I have an Olympus Zuiko 50mm and am just stoked on it's image quality etc... In some cases I prefer these older and less contrasty lenses as they let you eeek out as much dynamic range as humanly possible.. Have you found the 24mm to be the same ?
I want to see more !!!

Love and Aloha, iamKP-

Thanks! They're not slowed at all - they're enormous turbines, so look deceptively slow.

Thanks!

Hehe! Thanks very much.

Thanks! The Punch Bowl is my local. Always nice to meet local Vimeoans!

Ta!

Thanks! They're the older, OM mount Zuiko lenses. I picked up an adapter from eBay for about £20.

Thanks man! keep them awesome vids comin.

Heh! Thanks. The water is that colour because of the iron in the soil!

It was a cheap Chinese import - I couldn't tell you the brand or the seller as I bought it a couple of years ago. However they're abundantly available and yes, you can get Nikon ones too. Check out cinema5d.com as there are a couple of discussions about adapters.

You'd be surprised; the noisier shots were taken at iso 3200 in very low light - so dark I couldn't see the spirit level on the top of my tripod. What looks like noise in the very detailed daylight shots is actually aliasing and some compression artefacts.

I notice the artifacts, but also noise at ISO 160. This is on L lenses with a lot of light, in scenes with little detail. Have you experienced this? It's driving me nuts, as I've seen 5D/7D footage that didn't seem to have ANY noise...

I think it depends on the shot; how much detail, contrast, DoF etc. Shots like the thistle in the video above tend to be clean whereas I've noticed a lot more noise in wide shots with deep DoF. It's all about the compression I reckon.

Thanks Blake!

Thanks! There's very little correction on the sunset shots, just altered the gamma curve to add some punch. The sky really did turn blood red!

The heavier grade is on the daylight shots which had much more curves adjustment and the blacks pushed into blue.

thanks! Much of this was shot on the road between Stanhope and Barnard Castle. The turbine shots are from the East side of Tow Law. We've only recently moved to CD, having lived in various parts of the country.

I live very near to Bishop Auckland! You should come visit County Durham.

I have an EF to OM adapter, bought on eBay for the price of a chip butty.

Thanks Christian. I may go shoot some stills up on the moors soon. Extracting stills from 7d video is possible but is very low res compared to 18mp raw images.

That's cool, would be great if you'd let me know about it somehow then, I'm using flickr.com for that purpose (flickr.com/photos/creative-me/).
Keep it up :)

Pleased you like it!

Not that much to tell really. as I said, done in FCP. Most CC done with the 3 way Colour Corrector, blacks crushed into blue and contrast added as I was filming with a very flat profile. Hope that helps!

Thanks Kevin!

For video? the 7d without question. As for stills, the following review seems to come out slightly in favour of the 7d: dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos7d/page30.asp

Thanks David!

The lenses are EOS (EF) and Olympus OM Zuiko (with adapter).

Used in the right conditions, the 7d can rival an HD camera with adapter. It is limited to those conditions however, and it'll be some time yet before I part with my HVX200 and Letus.

The HVX200 is a bit dated now, but it's still a better video camera than the 7d. Why? Because it was designed as a video camera and not a stills camera.

The 7d's shortcomings are many - that's not to say it doesn't have it's place, but it has none of the technical and ergonomic conveniences of shooting with a proper video camera.

In video mode, the 7d has serious issues caused by binning and inadequate compression - it can't cope with high detail, high contrast images. It suffers very noticeable rolling shutter 'jello' effects precluding any fast pan / cross fov motion.

The ergonomic limits are even more important; first it *must* be mounted, be that on a tripod or a shoulder mount like the Zacuto Tactical shooter. Shooting without a mount results in an unwatchable wobbly image. Also, SLR lenses are not designed like video lenses with their big, comfortable focus/aperture rings and breathless focus. The 7d has unusably bad audio, both in terms of software (AGC) and inputs (only a minijack input) requiring external audio recording equipment. Video monitoring is again difficult without third party eyepieces / HD field monitors. Recording to FAT formatted CF cards forces a clip record time limit of around 12 mins.

It's important to bare in mind that all of the above limitations can be overcome, the question is will doing so undermine the benefits of using the 7d? If so, look to another camera. I love my 7d, it's great to use and can produce some superb images, but I'll always keep a dedicated video camera that I can take onto any job knowing it'll do what I need it to.

Thanks! The music is "Three Sisters" by Hammock

Thank you!

Artistic choices by focus group?

Ummm, no. But thanks for your kind comment.