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Hi,  I shot this a few months ago and cut it together for this Women in Science charity.  I used ML on my 5Diii primarily for the focus peaking and compression tweaks.  Audio was recorded using a Roland R26 with a boom attached.  I had some shoulder rig which I borrowed - I can't remember which one.  I bought a loupe for the screen which was absolutely essential - it was a magnetic one which didn't quite fit but i'm resolved to buy a better one for the next shoot I do.  Lens was the totally excellent EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM for the most part with a EF 50mm 1.4 for some of the picked up GVs.

I put it together with Media Composer through AMA which worked better than I thought.  I synched the audio to the video by hand, which took a while but once i'd started it was easier just to finish it that way - i'll be looking for software to do this next time.  (I was disappointed to be reminded that the 5Diii is really a prosumer camera in terms of consistent TOD timecode - I know with proper video cameras the TC will slip about a bit over the course of a day, but the 5Diii was out by up to 30 frames between stop/starts over the 3 hours I filmed).

I'm not really a cameraman - I'm an editor in my day job - and I had to work quite hard to make this watchable.  Also, being an editor and used to being in quite a lot of control most of the time, I was pretty hard on myself during editing.  Also note, i'm an offline editor meaning it doesn't matter too much if i'm colourblind - which I am - so I know the grade's not perfect - I used a scope.

Anyway - let me know what you think.

Dan.

I'm doing a charity shoot in a few weeks with my 5diii.  It's just a day shooting an event - probably 3 to 6 hours of rushes depending on my self discipline.  I'm really a video editor with a photography hobby so although I know what I need to get, I dont have that much experience shooting with the 5d.  I've got sound covered with an R-26 and a boom, and I've got a loupe/evf type thing (which is great actually).

Anyway, I wondered if anyone knows what kind of battery life I can expect shooting with a non-is lens using focus peaking?

Also, has anyone shot with/ can recommend a variable ND?

And finally - i'm probably going to hire some kind of rig with a shoulder mount and a focus doo-dad - any ideas from experience?

Cheers,

Dan.

Has anyone thought of this? (of course they have)  If the bottleneck is in waiting for the CF card to complete it's write cycle could you split the image say 70/30 between the CF and SD then merge them on the desktop?  Is it just a case of diverting the stream from one device to the other?

My other idea - which may turn out to be just as valid - is a large plastic bucket just underneath the cf card door, catching all of the data as it spills out.