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CompuNirvana on the Set
Here Comes Hollywood!!! Time To Make Some Movies!!!
Notes from the set:
Over the past few days, I've had the opportunity to work with the Canon 5D Mark 2. I like the camera becuase the form factor of the camera was small, and it shoots extremely well. I used it in a stop motion shoot with a great DP who knew exactly how to setup the shot to make it fantastic.
We used the USB connection to go to a MacIntel desktop with 24 gigs of RAM, yes! I said 24 gigs of RAM, and the shooting was quite crisp. The lighting was hot and crisp as well: the spot was shot using 2 5k lights and 1 3k.
One important issue that came up was the lighting changes caused by the video feed from the camera not having a manual setting. The resulting problem was that when the image would be too dark, the video feed would auto compensate, leaving the stills settings okay, but creating a terrible dark video feed that was hard to judge by. Luckily, we didn't get too distracted, and being able to quickly check the final images from the camera, we discovered that we could get by with this setup.
Eric Grush, on set tech