November 20, 2009
Chad Mumm is our video producer at Engadget, doing work on The
Engadget Show and filming shorter-form stuff when we need it. He
recently acquired the 7D for personal and work use, and we asked him to
put together some thoughts on the camera in terms of using it primarily
for video. You can check out our traditional review roundup for the 7D here.
These times are strange
. Five years ago if you walked onto the set of a
movie, TV show, or music video -- before you got kicked out by a strung
out production assistant -- you'd have probably seen a bustling group
of workers huddled around a giant camera changing out huge spools with
Kodak or Fujifilm logos on them. The RED ONE
camera shook up the industry when it was released two years ago and
those cans of film were replaced with hard-drives and digital
technicians. Now, we're in the midst of another monumental camera
shift, and it's not the 3D revolution that everyone predicted. Nope, in
2009 we make our movies on DSLRs. Just how good are they? Well, the
recently released Canon EOS 7D may just be the new Engadget workhorse. Read on for the inside scoop on our ridiculously cinematic new rig.
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