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It makes masses of difference.
I get Zebras, Audio meters, no Auto Gain Control, custom iso's (110, 120, 130 etc) custom shutter speeds (1/33, 1/37, 143 etc) so much more control over light input, that's in photo mode too. Custom crop marks and safe areas for 4:3 or cine (2.39:1 i think it is). Then they're working on snazzy little features all the time, they have a Q scale for higher bit rate recording upto 70 seems do-able with a fast card and Alex (550D developer) has just come up with a work around for continous video, creating sequencial 4gb files which is really useful.
Oh and my new personal favourite, rack focus. Which works as though you have two points loaded into a follow focus and allows you to pull focus perfectly accuratly at the push of a button.

Unfortunatly they're struggling to get it going on the 7D.

Dead nice look on that

When I say 'ruins' i just mean it doesn't look as good as my original version.

I linked a video I just made on the 550D here:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2453

Yeah you're right Mike. But I'm talking about Bit rate here not file size.

The encoding bit rate of a multimedia file is the size of a multimedia file in bytes divided by the playback time of the recording (in seconds), multiplied by eight.

That's copied and pasted from wikipedia and explains things better than I can, further reading here if interrested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate

File size is limited on Canon DSLRs because of Tax.

I think my BLM file size was about 3.5gig.

Chris.

*EDIT* Youtube displays 'FULL HD' at around 2.5mbps bit rate...hence people saying it ruins their videos.

I thought over christmas, I'd take the term 'bedroom muusician' to its logical conclusion and occupy the whole house...
But in doing so I made a little video

It's a cover of the Biffy Clyro song 'Many of Horror'.
Have a gander if you get the chance and feel free to give me any feedback etc.

Cheers,
Chris.

Oh, I almost forgot, here's a little link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-nMU1gPuEM

Wow, that's a stonking review!! Cheers!

I'm not coming on here to 'sell' but, I did get notification from the digital distribution people that our album is now on iTunes, it should be on Spotify too but i think that takes a little longer to work out, but, in anycase, there's a selection of material on facebook and myspace to browse and if you so desire, you can purchase the whole thing from iTunes for £7.99 i think.

If anyone's in Manchester on Jan 29th and wants to come to a gig we're doing, please let me know and I'll sort you out a ticket.

Thanks again for to positive feedback.

Chris.

Sorry it's taken a while to check back on here.

Camera is a Canon 550D which is a good DSLR that shoots full HD video at around 45mb per second, to put in context, Blu-Ray goes out at 40mb per sec. So it really holds its own

Glad you liked the pics and vids.

Chris.

Yep, liked that a lot. Keep us posted on the releases

Shall do. We have an album out which i'm trying to get on itunes in the next couple of weeks, but we have hard copies available which i'm sure can be sorted over email if you so desire.  

We're of the Prog Rock Opera variety.
Band name is Milo Cho and as evidenced by my username, I'm the drummer.

Have a gander at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF0FxMWrnho and let me know your thoughts.

Our official 'myspace' is www.myspace.com/milocho and our official 'facebook' is www.facebook.com/milochoband

Cheers,
Chris.

Well, it's taken me a while to find this forum and to sign up etc...
but, if you were at the manchester gig, you may be interrested to see some of the pictures i took and some of the videos.

Pictures are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisgalli ... 498591911/

and videos can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/drumming12345
(always best to watch in full HD if you can)

Have a nice day.

Chris.

Oh and the sound was good where I was. Though a little top heavy. Much better once I'd put my plugs in, just took away some of the harsh top end.