Virtually Famous – a kickstarter project about social media
Tweet Ok, I’m helping to support this one because I’m going to be in it! HA! But there’s more than just that, Ollie is a friend of mine and this looks to be a great project. Ollie sent me this tidbit in his personal appeal to get me to post this It’s to be entirely...
The Shot – an emotionally charged HDSLR short
Tweet Good friend of planet5D Mario (inCINErate films) created this hauntingly tough short – so be warned, for some people (parents) this can be hard to watch – but the key is how well we’re pulled into the movie. This story is told so well, I almost turned it off twice… so strong are the...
Canon U.S.A. announces 3 lenses – including a new 24-70!
Tweet It’s camera product announcement night… Canon announces 3 new lenses including a new Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM Lens! Unfortunately, some had hoped there would be IS included, but sorry, it isn’t. Announcement LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., February 7, 2012 — Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced two new...
Nikon announces the D800 and D800E – 36.3mp HDSLRs! Update 4
Tweet This just in from NikonRumors, Nikon has announced the 36.3mp HDSLR the Nikon D800! It appears to be priced at $3999 $2999 – putting it between the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Canon EOS-1D X if you’re comparing to Canon. update 4: Videos added Can't see the video in your RSS reader...
Gravity is popular today on planet5D – two different but similar videos
Tweet Gravity is a popular subject today on planet5D – we just published “Gravity” on the planet5D Cinema – and suddenly found another “Gravity” HDSLR movie that has a very fun attitude about it – “GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN” by Filip Piskorzynski. It is very popular too! It has over 445k views on...
“Nightscapes” – creating a timelapse film on a minimal budget
Tweet For those of you looking to learn something about timelapse there are more and more resources going up on the web, but you’ll want to visit Daniel Freytag’s blog where he has this guest post from Phil Arntz about how he made an awesome ‘nighttime’ timelapse. Phil shot this timelapse on a Canon Rebel...
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...
The Dreams Come True – Storytelling with timelapse
planetMitch note: this is a new post by one of our new guest bloggers – Patryk Kizny (from LookyCreative and DitoGear (a planet5D sponsor)). Welcome Patryk! “The Dreams Come True” “The Dreams Come True” is a short film commissioned by the the office of Las Palmas 2016 to promote the city of Las Palmas the...
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...
