While the Red/Canon mount hasn’t been released just yet, Laforet got his hands on it early and has reported that it includes image stabilisation, digital aperture control, autofocus, and a bunch of other features. The results, as you can see in his video below, are nothing short of amazing — but then, he is a professional, and had some beautiful scenery to work with. [Vimeo, with pics via Propic]
Rollz
Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 2:54 PMPretty crappy video for such an expensive device.
adrian
Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 4:58 PMAre you even serious?
Eli
Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 9:08 PMI tend to agree with Rollz… wavy water and out of focus birds… whats the big deal? No point having a awesome lens if the end product ain’t special.
Chair
Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 6:38 PMRollz you obviously have no idea about depth of field (lens theory) with a comment like that and thus no idea what this video is all about. At that distance and taking video of a moving object it would be near impossible at that distance to keep the subject in focus as the depth is so shallow, it proves to his skills that any decent video was captured at all.
LucasF
Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 9:21 PMMy girlfriend and I just watched this on my projector, just SD res, and both of our mouths are still hanging open. It is absolutely incredible! Rollz is a twit.
lulz
Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 10:59 PMYou probably thought Avatar was a good movie too.
Dennison
Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 11:04 PMI love his work, his first video with the 5D Mark II was what pushed me over the edge to buy one.
I have had a lot of fun with both my 5D MK II and 7D with my Sigma 50-500 with 2x extender, I guess you can say its a poor mans version of this :).
Paul
Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 10:51 PMI love slow motion, unfortunately that impresses me more than the reach of the 1200mm equiv hand cannon.
Like Dennison I have the poor mans version, Sigma 50-500 with a 1.4x TC on a 1.6x APS-C gives me almost that reach – so that could have spoiled my surprise.
Ash
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 9:43 AMThat first scene of water bubbles I thought were UFO’s on a sunset background!. Awesome video!
BETLOG
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:03 PMAs someone who owns a (professionally damaged) 600mm and (faintly dusty) 1000mm catadioptric lenses (yes, the poor-mans telephoto) I was pleased to see the light transmission at this resolution/refresh rate, but more impressed by the smoothness of whatever he has it mounted on. Rock solid AND silky smooth. But I guess thats pretty standard for tripods that cost nearly as much as the gear mounted on them. *sigh*
Camwerkz Pte Ltd
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 12:05 PMYou make video camera rental house like us want to buy the Canon 600mm!