What Canon 5D Mk ll Accessories Do You Have

I was curious which 5D accessories you felt were necessary for using the 5D Mk ll as a video camera.

For instance do you have the Canon BG-E6 battery grip, does this aid using the camera for video??

Feel free to add your must haves for this camera, especially now that the new firmware makes using video easier.

Norman

These are the things I bought:
Extra battery. The battery lasts a long time even doing video so I don't see a need to get the battery grip.
Matte box with flag. Needed this more then once.
Follow focus with rails. Needed for rack focus stuff or just making it easier to manually focus.

The only other things on my wish list for this camera is more Nikon primes.
Even though it has manual controls, I don't see a need in buying Canon lenses when I can get a older manual focus Nikon for pennies. (well almost)

If I start shooting more photos with it, I may get an auto focus Canon lens.

I do see a need for some type of shoulder rig to get hand held shots without too much jerky movement.
Like these:
http://store.zacuto.com/DSLR-Gunstock-Shooter-Kits/

Yes I have seen the reviews on the shoulder rigs, do you think Jake the IS image stabilization on the Canon lenses would work to reduce camera movement?

By the way I got my first studio lights and did a shoot on Sunday with them, they worked perfectly.

Norman

Cool, did you get the lights that you can adjust the brightness?

I did hear that the image stabilzation does work but I haven't looked into that.

Oh, one other thing is more CF cards. You can't have enough of these.
Any card that has more then 133 X will work great. No need in buying faster more expensive cards.

Jake

Yes I got the soft boxes with five switches so each light can be turned on and off, so I can achieve a light ratio without moving the lights, so the quality of light stays soft. They are very bright 5 x 45 watt florescent s per light.

I think the wifi attachment so photos and video can be saved directly to a small portable usb harddrive in a pocket is a must.

Do you think a pistol grip to hold it would be useful in video mode?

If I can ever afford a 5D, I'm getting this:

http://www.ononesoftware.com/blog/2009/05/15/iphone-app-from-onone/

but it looks like they started work on a Nikon version of the app. Woohoo!

That is a cool App, I have the iTouch and will get this, especially at $9.99 could you imagine how much easier it would have been doing this shot with this App.

https://www.pond5.com/pt/stock-footage/156118