Canon EOS 5D Mark III or Canon EOS 7D mk II prototype discovered? UPDATED
UPDATE: We have an update with a photo that is more clear plus a poll to say what you think it might be Daniel Freytag alerted me to this blog post with Canon prototype bodies and lenses and canonrumors.com has covered it… but there are these snaps from what is reportedly a Canon employee testing...
L’Oreal/UNESCO ‘For Women in Science Video’ shot with Canon DSLRs…with a little help from the XF 305
Our good friend Drew Gardner sent us this interesting short we thought we’d share… it was shot mainly on HDSLRs but they also used the XF 305 (again showing how well the HDSLRs mix with other camera output). Lan Bui and I recently shot this video project for UNESCO L’Oreal and their ‘For Women in...
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!...
T-Recs final 2011 timelaspe – Dresden in HDR
Our friends over at T-Recs sent us their latest timelapse that is getting quite a lot of views and it is really one of the better ones, so besides showing it on planet5D cinema, we thought you should be aware of it! Striezelmarkt Dresden 2011 in HDR Can't see the video in your RSS reader...
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...
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...
Burning Man like you’ve not seen before
You know we get tons and tons of HDSLR movies sent to us (and we show off the best ones on planet5D cinema) – but every now and then one comes in that just makes me say wow – and when Ahmed ElHusseiny sent us his Burning Man videos, well, the words did come out...
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...
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...
