5D2 HD video of a Purple Heron in flight

I knew it's just a matter of time before I make crazy attempts at capturing HD videos of a flying bird using the 5D2's movie mode, with no benefit of AI servo. Here's sharing some clips I got the other day at Candaba wetlands, Philippines.

http://www.vimeo.com/2​847278


Romy

That's really nice. The way it processes the blowing grass is real testimony as to how the DigiC IV can encode at high bit rates. Nice work.

Tony-S wrote in post #7091561
That's really nice. The way it processes the blowing grass is real testimony as to how the DigiC IV can encode at high bit rates. Nice work.

Thanks, Tony..... the original *.mov footage has unbelieveable detail indeed. Here's video grab from the footage:

Purple Heron
Scientific name - Ardea purpurea
Habitat - Fairly common in all types of wetlands.

CANDABA WETLANDS, PHILIPPINES, 5D2 + 500 F4 L IS + Canon 2x TC, 1000 mm, f/16, Manfrotto 475B/3421 support, available light, full HD video frame (video grab), processed and resized to 1280x720

THe video coming out of the mk2 is better than my HV20--

Nice frog frame grab!

Shallow DOF makes the grass look cool, good effort at tracking it whilst it was flying!

Amazing! looks very nice, great quality

Very cool bird, very cool video. Nice job.

Thanks guys for viewing.

Romy

Birds of Villa Escudero
by Romy Ocon

Thats great!

loved it!

Love the vid. Thanks for sharing.

Your truly harnessing the capability of the 5d2. Mabuhay.