David Griffin Photography

Those who follow my occasionally-updated Twitter feed know that the long-awaited Canon 5D Mark II camera arrived here yesterday.  (It arrived at Hunt’s two days ago, but I resisted dropping everything and heading over by driving in the snow and ice…)

Several things attracted me to the 5D (one of them was NOT my bank account balance), but the most interesting feature for me was the inclusion of high-definition video into the camera.  It’s by no means perfect, but few things rarely are.  I’ll discuss the decision process in another article.

The camera came with a battery that was reading “low” when I popped it in, and I spent a couple of minutes on the drive back home getting it set up and figuring out what buttons did what.  When we arrived home I had perhaps 20 minutes of light left — but I figured I had far less battery.   Nevertheless, I put a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens on the camera, grabbed a tripod, and headed out to the river to see what I could capture.

Here’s my first video with the camera, crudely processed and edited :

Related posts:

1. Editing Canon 5D Mark 2 footage – tools and timings
2. First cut of a nature video short
3. The 23rd Annual Assabet River Cleanup
4. Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
5. Here we go again – another roaring river week