Shooting Video on the Canon 7D
Recently, our church purchased a sweet Canon EOS 7D for the express purpose of shooting video. It’s an awesome camera, but most of us didn’t know how to use it. After spending a few months with this camera, I decided to record this tutorial on using the 7D to shoot video. Though having photography fundamentals is really useful, the tutorial just assumes you’ve shot on a consumer DV camera in the past and introduces the basics and not-so basics of the 7D — all from the perspective of shooting video.
Now, this video is really, really rough. I threw my own personal 7D on a tripod and hit record. My son was just born when I made this recording so I know I look like a zombie in this footage. Focus on the camera, not me ;)
Tutorial Chapters:
- Introduction (11 min)
- Lens Overview (19 min)
- More Lenses (14 min)
- Camera / ISO / Exposure (15 min)
- Exposure Triangle (20 min)
- White Balance (8 min)
- Presets (7 min)
- Production Techniques (12 min)
- More Production Techniques (8 min)
Tutorial Notes (PDF, 2MB)
You can also watch see the entire tutorial as a playlist album.
Tagged as canon 7d + Categorized as Tech
Good stuff. thanks conrad.
i suggest ending the post with an open question to elicit comments such as “what other tutorials would you like to see?” “what has your experience been shooting with the dslr vs a video camera?” something like that :)
I’ll be sure to post any questions i have here.
Great vid, thanks for taking the time to make these..very useful. I thought of myself as a purist until I put my hands on a 7D. It was fun to use and as a photographer, I didn’t feel like the performance of the camera was compromised by the added functionality of shooting video.
Thank you for great walk through of the 7D.
I work in the film and television, and wanted to shoot a project with the 7D.
I had a lot of questions about the camera before finding you on Vimeo.
You answered them all. I will save the link to this sight, for when i want to refresh my memory.
Great Videos, thank’s a lot, very helpful.
Thanks so much man! I don’t know you, but I want to hug you! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world brother!
It’s my pleasure. I’m glad you found it helpful!
Good job, Conrad. It is a very helpful video, but I have 1 very basic question, how do u make all the .mov files into 1 movie ?
@Fred: you need to use QuickTime 7. Select a .mov, apple + A (to select all), option + shift + N (to create a new video), apple + v (to paste). Open another .mov and repeat. As you as you don’t click on the timeline of the newly created video, you won’t overwrite when you paste but rather append
I am from Brazil, thanks that’s videos, i liked!
Its a very important for me, i am a photographer….
Good Luck!
First of all, thank you so much Conrad. This has been so helpful. I’ve watched the videos and think you did a great job of explaining things.
Quick question:
In “Live View,” I cant seem to see the little boxes of focus points that your video displays in the “presets” section.
I’m able to see the focus boxes (I’m using expansion focus) through the eye piece in stills mode, but not in live view.
Thoughts and help are appreciated.
Thank you so much.
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Wow, this is a great tutorial.
Thank You very much!