After some quite hard times of just simply bad luck and army, the new memory card arrived and quality proved to be something we had expected, and most important, the camera was fine. We have shot some test materials and even edited some for our upcoming trailer, which is planned to be released during the next fall/winter. And our director bought Canon EOS 550D also, so now we have two of them. Expands possibilities widely.
The main use for this project of two 550D's is the sequence, which has been inspired by the Leonidas' freestyle tracking-shot in the movie 300. In that shot, along with the quality speed-ramping is also an effect I like to call "zoom-ramping", when camera zooms back and forth quickly, even when the footage is slowed down. This has been achieved by bolting three cameras on the rig side-by-side, and everyone of them has been set to shoot at differenct focal lengths. In the editing table these three views have been combined to create dynamic and action-packed effect to the sequence. We have only two cameras for the use, but the third camera can be "emulated" by shooting some of the shots after the main shots, and then combining them. Plan is that we could do somekind of test shot in this year before good weather is gone, but that remains to be seen.
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