Vintage lens alert! 110 year old lens on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Quite a while ago, we featured a 102 year old lens that was mounted to a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (two posts: stills post and video from the same lens) – and today, here’s an even older one – 110 years old! This was sent in by Ignacio Sanchez who has started a group...
ExtremeStorms – editing Canon EOS 5D Mark II video on an iPad
Thanks to a tweet from Phrommayon this morning, I found this article which I just had to share about editing Canon EOS 5D Mark II video on an iPad 2 – written by Jim Edds from ExtremeStorms.com! Snip from Jim’s article This demo will show you how to import footage directly from the Canon 5D2...
Ron Risman On Location with Commercial NYC Photographer Gregor Halenda
Ron Risman of CameraTown.com sent us this feature he did for cinematicStories.com about NYC photographer Grego Halenda – which of course he shot on HDSLRs. I wanted to share a promotional film that I shot last April for commercial photographer Gregor Halenda in NY. I was asked not to promote the film until his new...
“Silky water” tests w/ CHV “Time collection” plugins
Ric Kasnoff sent us his latest input on the CHV Time Collection FCP plugins with a sample… what do you think? “Silky water” tests Can't see the video in your RSS reader or email? Click Here! Background While shooting more footage for the upcoming short "Winter" down at Rainier this weekend I took some time...
Finally! Canon EOS Utility updated to work on OSX Lion
Peter (@IamPter on twitter) sent us this good news this evening – Canon has updated the EOS Utility to work on OSX Lion and he also sent us the download link. I was able to download it and install it on my OSX Lion setup on my iMac and it worked like a charm. This...
Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with some stuff that should have been there in the first place UPDATE 4
We’d heard rumors about it yesterday and 9to5mac just published the story (tho it hasn’t yet been picked up by other sites like macrumors yet surprisingly… was there an embargo that is being ignored? -update 8:54 am CT – macrumors does have a story now) Included as a free update are these features and more… read...
Flying People in New York City – it’s a bird! it’s a plane! no, it’s an RC plane!
Ok, I admit it right up front, this has very little to do with HDSLR (tho there is a very short clip of an RC drone with a DSLR on it but I don’t know if the whole clip was filmed with it)… but this is just cool and I love the concept – so...
New Nikon D4 videos – a couple from Joe McNally
I found these two new videos from Joe McNally who’s had his hands all over the Nikon D4 and wanted to share them with you. Joe McNally Photography- Little Freddie King, Livin’ The Blues Can't see the video in your RSS reader or email? Click Here! Snip from Joe’s post Little Freddie King is the...
The Digital Convergence Podcasts – a few good ones (because I was on! HA)
Even tho I’ve been taking a sabbatical from the planet5D podcasts, I have been active over on Carl Olson’s Digital Convergence podcast – and I thought you’d like to listen in because we’ve had a great time talking about all sorts of different topics. Here’s last week’s episode Dave Dugdale (LearningDSLRVideo.com), planetMitch (planet5D.com), Chris Fenwick...
Sunday Poll: Two questions about the Canon EOS 5D Mark III
I enjoyed last week’s poll about which was better, the Canon EOS-1D X or the Nikon D4 simply because of the results… yep, I’m a Canon guy and was surprised at how many people were tweeting and talking about how cool the Nikon D4 was and how it was better than the Canon EOS-1D X…...
“Act Of Valor” – filming with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II around LIVE ammo!
If you’ve been following planet5D at all, you know I’m a huge fan of Shane Hurlbut and the Hurlbut Visuals team – and Shane tweeted this “Act of Valor” (IMDB) featurette this morning about shooting with LIVE AMMO, and if this doesn’t get your blood moving, I don’t know what will! If you haven’t heard,...
Rolling shutter comparison test with 6 Canon and Nikon HDSLRs
Here’s an interesting analysis you might be intrigued by – rolling shutter comparisons across a group of 6 Canon and Nikon HDSLR cameras. I don’t think there’s any major surprise here, but it is an interesting read. Brief Snip via Rolling shutter comparison test | Too Much Imagination. I finally come around to piecing together...
