Was this video eally shot with a Nikon D7000?

[Merlin5]

An amazing quality video, but there seems to be debate in the comments about whether it's the Nikon D7000 shooting the video, or steadycams, or the D7000 with ultra expensive lenses. I'm aware the D7000 is about £700, but this video quality must be worthy of much more expense, like thousands of pounds worth of equipment surely?

 

[Merlin5]

Well I've seen a handful of videos on youtube of the D7000 doing HD video tests, and tbh, there's a massive difference between those and this video. Those videos looked very good but at best like typical amateur HD footage.This video however has all the qualities of a hollywood style movie.

 

[Merlin5]

Reading through the comments section though, there's an awful lot of people who seem fairly sure it was done with steadycams, a 'merlin' steadycam is mentioned a lot.

 

[Merlin5]

Cool, ok then, so it seems it is indeed a D7000 filming this video. That's incredibly impressive then for a £700 camera. Or maybe it costs a bit more. Anyway, how deep would one expect to have to reach into the pockets to add the kind of large aperture lens lthat matja mentioned to replicate this exact quality?

 

[Merlin5]

D7000 on a steadycam. Whats wrong with that

Nothing. I put myself under a misapprehension that a steadycam might be some £20,000 professional video camera, but it's obviously not.

^ Oh yeah, that reminds me of Nokia's short film shot on the N8.

THAT was all shot on a phone??

I'll check out the iphone one bigredshark mentioned, but I'm sure it'll be amazing too. So this seems to suggest the 1080 video camera on my SGS2 phone could make a movie as good as that nokia one.

 

[Merlin5]

Just for the record, I know nothing about photography as I'm sure you can tell, nor am I about to rush out and buy this camera. I just find it all quite interesting, as an outside observer. Cool to learn about the processes behind these amazing things