How to Setup your 7D
I found these two articles on how to setup your 7D for more optimum performance and ease of use....
Use both of these as written and your camera will be setup pretty nice for stills and video. I started with the first setup as written and finished the camera setup with the second one. You should change any settings that you would prefer to use in conjunction with these suggestions to get the camera setup your personal way of shooting... I used all of these settings and only changed one or two items from the combined articles... the first one I used to setup the video portions is here: Tutorial: How to custom configure your Canon EOS 7D settings for Photo & Video | Oeding.com the second one I used to setup the still settings is here: Setting Up Your New Canon 7D | Deep Green Photography enjoy :-) |
Thanks for posting that.
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Anyone have links to settings that work best for out of the box shooting? I don't have good calibration gear for post and also am wary of artifacts that often result from manipulating heavily compressed files.
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Brian, the posted set-up is an out-of-the-box solution and wont result in post-production artifacts - that's the point of the set-up.
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There's no major post required with these parameters. Keeping sharpness and contrast dialed down just prevents the camera from baking in too much too early in the process and gives you more control over the final look. Indeed, there are so few settings on this camera that you should be able to adjust one of the presets and find your desired look with the minimum of testing. Start with a "Neutral" picture style and adjust from there.
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The line between professional and amateur is drawn with the dollar bill. If you're getting paid, by definition you are professional. Without belaboring the point, I'll direct you to the maxim of "Cheap, fast, good. Pick two". I've been doing some stuff with musicians lately and I absolutely love it, but they're musicians, they just don't have a budget, and as much as I love music and working with artists, I'm not going to work for minimum wage. So yes, I shoot them with a cheap camera (the 7d), and do everything possible to minimize post. They're happy, I'm happy so end of story. Btw, they're especially pleased with the audio I'm getting from the Tascam DR100 and Octava mics and syncing via Plural Eyes. So much so that they're hiring me for audio only gigs over a well established sound engineer who carts around a 50k sound kit. These are discriminating professional musicians with degrees from places like Juliard, they don't know jack about Color grading, but they have ears |
Don't need a faster computer.. they currently don't make one much faster.. I see where you are going with the videos for the musicians.. I guess it's just me personally that would never send out anything uncorrected at this point.. To each their own..
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I set up my 7D exactly like the first link told me so, and I quite like it. However, when I'm using Custom Mode C2 the camera is adjusting the ISO automatically to match the light situation. Is this something you guys would want? I find it quite "camcorder" style, which IMHO doesn't suit the "cinema" style manu of us are pursuing. I could be missing some specific infomation though.
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Frank, ISO should be set to 200 as a default. Select your desired ISO when shooting but never use AUTO.
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I'm with Brian.
I use the 5D2 and 7D as a camcorder capable of shooting several stills during the video. No post processing required, just edit length, and burn SD DVD's, or if more definition is required Blu-Rays. I realize this and other forums are geared towards filmmakers and wedding photographers, however there is also a need for informative, reliable advice covering more mundane applications of this hardware. We surely don't need another forum do we? |
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