Epic Slow Motion Footage Shot with a Canon 550D
17-year-old filmmaking student Sacha Powell shot this powerful slow motion film using a $500 Canon 550D/T2i, 50mm f/1.8, 18-55mm kit lens, and Sigma 70-300mm. On the software side he utilized Premiere Pro CS5, After Effects CS5.5, and Twixtor for faux...
Magic Lantern team deliver Xmas gift of improved Canon DSLR hack with FPS control and HDR mode
By Dan Chung I’m generally not into hacking cameras myself but the new Christmas release of the Magic Lantern hack for Canon 550D (t2i), 60D, 600D (t3i), 50D and 500D is certainly very enticing. Magic Lantern offers a greatly improved feature set which makes Canon DSLRs into much more fully feature video cameras. You simply...
Canon USA Rebates available now on Rebel HDSLRs (thru July 30)
If you’re in the market for the Canon Rebel T2i/550D or Canon Rebel T3i/600D or even the Canon Rebel T3, then now’s the time to buy here in the USA as there are some rebates running from Canon thru July 30. If you do plan on purchasing, please support planet5D by clicking on the links...
The Ecstasy of Decay – Angeline Gragasin documents a mortician’s work
ECSTASY OF DECAY №1: Your Mortician from Angeline Gragasin on Vimeo. ECSTASY OF DECAY №2: The American Corpse from Angeline Gragasin on Vimeo. I moved to Los Angeles last December as a result of a complex series of circumstances, which together conspired against me realizing my dream as a digital nomad–touring the Great American West...
Faking Motion with Still Photographs Shot with a Canon Rebel 550D
Design firm XNcreative shot some photographs with a Canon Rebel 550D (T2i) while flying over various locations in the western US, but didn’t feel the still photos captured the original grandeur of the locations, so they decided to turn the stills into a motion-faked video. It was all done using Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Apple...
Trammell Hudson – author of Magic Lantern – planet5D live interview guest Jan 30th 9pm EST
Tweet Yes, that’s right, Trammell Hudson – author of Magic Lantern firmware will be our planet5D live interview guest on Sunday January 30th at 9pm EST and if you join our live UStream broadcast, you get to ask some of the questions! And don’t forget to Subscribe to the planet5D International Event Calendar – subscribing...
An amazing Canon Rebel T2i/550D music video – “The Rebel”
Tweet Even the Canon HDSLR the 550d (T2i) is finding it’s way into music videos – example: “The Rebel” by The Amateurs – this amazing music video that was shot on the Canon Rebel T2i/550D (reviews) for less than $1000 – we had to get more info for you! the Amateurs music video Chris Stone...
planet5D exclusive update on the 4k Canon Rebel T2i/550D software We’ve all been RickRoll’d
Tweet We’ve been investigating the firmware we reported on Thursday and have been granted this exclusive additional information. We’ve been given nothing to prove that this software is real yet, so we’re posting this just as it was given to us – and we’ve been told that 11:11pm EST is still the time where the...
Firmware Hack to Bring 4K Video to the Canon Rebel T2i/550D
4K video recording may soon be available to Canon T2i/550D users willing to load a firmware hack onto their cameras. Apparently a guy known as Earz62801 on YouTube will be releasing a firmware hack on 1/1/11 that will give the T2i/550D 4K, 3K, and 2K recording capabilities and bit rates between 45MB/s and 175MB/s. He...
New Magic Lantern firmware release for the Canon Rebel T2i/550D
Tweet A new Magic Lantern firmware release for the Canon Rebel T2i/550D has been released enabling features that aren’t available with the standard Canon firmware. Be warned tho that Magic Lantern (tho we’ve not heard of any reports of this happening) in rare circumstances could damage your camera or void your warranty (we have to...
Beautiful Faux Slow Motion with Twixtor and a Canon 550D
Here’s another beautiful example of what Twixtor, the $300 frame-rate conversion software, can do for footage captured with ordinary cameras. This one was shot with the entry level Canon 550D (i.e. T2i), a Canon 18-55mm kit lens, and a Sigma 70-300. Though motion approximation can present issues such as warping, this kind of software is...
