Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
How are we? We are now approaching the Xmas season, which means getting some wonderful shots spending time with our friends, and family also it’s a great time to start photographing Xmas lights. I will be heading to Franklin Rd tonight, which is well known for houses dressed up in lights. There is a couple of thing that we need to be aware when we are photographing lights, so I will be doing another blog sometime in the week regarding this.
Well I am a very happy lad, I have just purchased the Canon 7D I picked it up from Photo Warehouse last Wednesday and I can tell you its an advanced machine I guess you could say its like going from a Toyota to a Porsche! With its 18 MP sensor the images quality is amazing. There is only one thing that annoyed me though, when I took my first RAW image (oh and by the way I only shoot RAW) I noticed that there was quite a bit of noise when I put it into Photoshop camera raw. To cut a long story short after doing days of research, as it’s a brand new camera it requires the latest version of Camera RAW
So here is the answer: Get camera RAW 5.6 NOT camera raw version 5.5 it has to be version 5.6, which you can download here: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Camera_Raw_5.6
One of the reasons why I brought the 7D was because it’s able to record HD Video. Before I brought I was kind of unsure what the quality would be like as some people said the quality is amazing and other people was saying you still cant beat a video camera, well folks I here to tell you the video capability of the 7D is amazing you will not be disappointed. Final Cut Pro also handles this fine too. In fact I’ll go as far as saying that a 7D would be perfect to video a wedding. As far as the sound goes its not the worst it pretty good but if you want it perfect like I do you still have to use a pro microphone. The file size for a 7D video 44 seconds = 247.8 MB which is not bad as I’m recording the highest setting 1920x1080 at 25 frames per second!
This works perfectly with the 7D oh and when you first open it will say “as this is a beta version it will expire in …….” Trust me they say that but it wont.
Of course the 450D, my previous canon is still a beautiful camera perfect for a beginner to intermediate it credit my 450 To giving me a understanding of DSLR, I think I will still keep it.
Please support my friend, Rick Sammon by going to http://dpexperience.com/ when the site is open I'm sure its going to be excellent! Rick Sammon has to be one of my idols look at his photography and you will see why! Not to mention Scott Kelby, listen I urge you to look into these guys you can learn a lot from them.
Keep those shutters rollin’
Wayne Frost
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