Viva La Bleu on the Canon 5DMKII & 7D

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Man, this was fun! Fun to shoot and fun to edit! After a month or so of chopping away at commercial gigs, this was just some good ‘ol fashion candy coloured, idealistic fun!

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Canon 500D Firmware Hack in the works!

What it looks like at Jonny's end.

What it looks like at Jonny's end! Where is the "Add Manual Controls & Extra Frame rates button"? :)

When I first got wind of this, I was very, very interested! I’d always thought that surely as soon as the Canon 5D MKII Firmware Update that gave the user manual control over ISO, Aperture and Shutter speed came out, somebody would take up the reins and find a way to port that over to it’s baby brother the Canon 500D. It never happened. I guess by the time the Canon 7D came around, most people had seemed to forget about the fantastic little 500D.

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Canon EOS 7D Camera Test

TESTING, TESTING!!! 1,2,3!

Disclaimer: This is straight out of the camera! It includes unaltered wind generated lens shake, automatic highlight tone priority visibly changing the exposure (lesson learnt!), messy pans and all. It is not meant to be a showcase of my best work, it is only to show the results of my first afternoon shooting this camera. There are some shots in there that I would never include in a final edit for upload, but have here because a camera test should be just that, a warts and all look at what it looks like. There is a time and a place for icky-sticky sugar coated depth of field wack off material, but this isn’t it.

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Canon EOS 7D video capabilities unleashed!

So the internet is abuzz with many review sites getting having got their hands on pre-release versions of the Canon EOS 7D.

Our friend Rob Galbraith has gone to the trouble of including a couple of test video clips on his site in full res.

Needless to say I am pumped, have already arranged to pre-order and am

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Almost confirmed spec list of the Canon 7D!

Again, I’m hanging on every word that Canon Rumors is posting as more and and more information comes to light on the new Canon 7D.

Turns out it’s spec’d to sit in between the Canon 5D MKII and the 50D. It’s still an APS-C sized sensor with a probably 1.6X crop factor, but it trumps even the

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