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Thanks for the comments guys - glad you liked it!

Regarding the bike scenes, I strapped my tripod to the bike and just shot video, not stills.  Yes, I know, I need a gopro.   Not easy cycling with a DSLR and a chunky wide angle in between your legs!   

Hi guys,

Just finished my '3 Days in New York' project, and thought you might want a look.

I shot tonnes of HD vid and nearly 11,000 stills to try to capture some the icons of this epic city.  Lots of sunset and cityscape action, and a fair bit of focus ramping. I hope you enjoy:

Obviously I used ML, but also Lightroom, LRTimelapse (pretty nifty time lapse ramping and leveling software that links to Lightroom), Mpeg Streamclip (invaluable video convertor/compressor), Final Cut Pro 7.

My poor little 550D has copped a bit of a beating, but I am still amazed at how much I have gotten out of this camera.  It is probably entering the end of its life (shutter count), and I am keenly eyeing off a full frame big brother, but until then, this little workhorse has a few sunsets left in it!



Thanks everyone.  Happy shooting.

Nick.

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Nice work man.  Very smooth.

That is awesome, well done.  200,000 snaps in 2 weeks - I imagine you didn't get too much sleep.  Not to mention the editing!

Again, top work.

I've had this problem on my 550D, but it is not a Magic Lantern problem, and it doesn't matter how long you have the camera on for.

I has to do with the speed of your SD card - not all SD cards are created equal.  You will find slower cards (like class 6) can work fine for a time, but then they can stop working and need a full reformat to be useable again to shoot vid.

I had a couple of cards that would stop shooting after 5 seconds, and some that would work fine.  Reformatting the ones that were not working sorted them out.  This was all prior to me using ML.

I now use class 10 cards and have not had a repeat of the problem (for over a year now). If your cards used to work and they no longer do, a low level reformat should fix them up (you will have to reinstall ML on those cards obviously).

Hope this helps.