{"id":323,"date":"2010-07-21T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukemiller.org\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-07-21T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:01:01","slug":"shooting-movies-with-a-canon-40d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/shooting-movies-with-a-canon-40d\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting movies with a Canon 40D"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Sourceforge project “EOS Camera Movie Record”<\/a> provides the ability to record high quality movies from older Canon EOS DSLR’s that have Live View functionality, but lack a movie mode from the factory (40D, 50D, 450D etc). It requires you to be tethered to a PC to record the video via USB cable, and there’s no sound input.<\/p>\n

The video is 1024×680 pixels, and is saved as a .avi file. The video capture\u00a0 seems to hover around 21-22 frames per second (confirmed in Matlab + Labview), even though the EOS Camera Movie Record window may report a higher frame rate during recording (I’ve seen up to 30.5fps). You can zoom in and out (if you’re using a zoom lens) and manually focus during shooting. The ISO\/shutter speed\/aperture are all user-selectable as well. <\/p>\n

Below is a quick video of the tide rising and falling in one of my experimental mesocosms. Select the high quality version if it’s available. The clarity of the video takes a little hit during the conversion process for Youtube, but the files look quite nice on my computer.
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It’s really quite a slick piece of software, and it provides the one feature that might have driven me to upgrade camera bodies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Sourceforge project “EOS Camera Movie Record” provides the ability to record high quality movies from older Canon EOS DSLR’s that have Live View functionality, but lack a movie mode from the factory (40D, 50D, 450D etc). It requires you to be tethered to a PC to record the video via USB cable, and there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}