Canon 100mm 2.8L is unbelievably sharp on video too

[joescrivens]

Look at this video of my nephew taken on the 7d with the 100mm 2.8L

I didn't realise how much better video would be with glass like this, I knew photos would be obvious but this HD video just blew me away. Make sure you change it to 720p for the full effect

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[clicktor]

Lovely stuff. So this 7d that does 1080p video...what's the catch? Can the lenses auto focus during a movie? I would assume you can only manually focus? Will there be a time when they can auto focus?

 

[joescrivens]

Lovely stuff. So this 7d that does 1080p video...what's the catch? Can the lenses auto focus during a movie? I would assume you can only manually focus? Will there be a time when they can auto focus?

Auto focus before shooting just like when taking a photo, then during shooting you can live view focus, but it's slow and noisy.

Everything else is manual, but to be honest I find it easy peasy, as you can see here, it wasn't hard to get the eyes spot on with manual. This was a still subject though, moving subjects is trickier but you don't always have to shoot at wide apertures so you can manage your focussing and dof in different ways