Canon EOS 60D travels the USA to create a unique “Drivelapse”
I seem to have been in a timelapse fever lately – but this one has gotten national attention and it is a bit different than the ones we’ve posted lately… a USA Drivelapse sent in by Brian DeFrees I recently returned from a 12,225 mile roadtrip around the United States. During my trip I summarized...
New Poll: Will smart phone cameras replace HDSLRs within 5 years?
I’ve been reading several interesting blog posts/tweets lately about the death of the DSLR via the surge in smart phones with high quality cameras so I thought I’d ask you what you thought… I’ve included a couple of quotes below the poll to give you an idea of what some others are saying. Poll Question!...
More on new Unified Magic Lantern including planet5D demo
Jordy Vandeput sent us some exclusive additional information on the new Unified Magic Lantern version we were one of the first to announce last week. Jordy also put together a quick demo video especially for planet5D readers demonstrating several of the features (see below) as well as showing the new HDR video function does indeed...
UPDATED: Canon updates EOS utility – but mac OS X Lion support is nowhere to be found
Many who upgraded to the latest operating system for Apple’s OS X Lion were a bit disappointed to find out the Canon utilities wouldn’t function – and a new version was released last Thursday, but unfortunately, Lion support wasn’t included. On a good note, I’ve found several reports that version 2.8.1 (download) — oops that...
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...
Save $30 off the Okii MC1 USB Mini Controller!
We told you earlier about the new Okii MC1 USB mini controller and you can see our demo again down at the bottom of this post – but if you’re interested in buying one, right now, there’s a $30 off coupon! From the HDCamTeam site: We have been notified by Okii Systems that there is...
HDR video firmware for Canon DSLRs? Magic Lantern adds new features!
Is it really true? A tweet this evening said that Magic Lantern has added HDR video for some Canon HDSLRs to their arsenal! We watched the video and it looks pretty impressive – but there are indeed some limitations – please read on for more info and thanks to gizmag.com for their story with all...
cineLook for HDSLRs – give your HDSLR footage an instant cinema look
Our friend Denver Riddle over at colorGradingCentral has come up with this FCPX plugin that will appeal to many of our HDSLR readers – it does a quick bang up job of creating a cinema look and feel for your DSLR video footage! Here’s what cineLook for HDSLRs will do for you: Tired of your...
You don’t get much better than this! Canon EOS 60D shines in this minature world
When Brad Herbert sent us this Canon EOS 60D video, we were impressed – very impressed – and so we posted it to the planet5D cinema – where it got the highest ratings of any video we’ve posted so far! So we asked Brad to give us some more background on the production of this...
Sad day for this camera! “how to lose $2400 in 24 seconds”
Hopefully this guy will read my comment about drying the camera out with rice as was done in this post from 2009 here on planet5D… always remember – if electronics get wet, dry them as best as you can (without heat) – and then place them in a big bag of uncooked white rice for...
A tip: How to overcome audio weaknesses of HDSLRs
At the MastersInMotionLive event we learned a lot – and one of the major topics I wanted to learn more about (and did thanks to Adam Forgione – and we’ll have Adam on our planet5D live coming up too!) was recording better audio on HDSLRs. Well, this morning I also found this little tip from...
