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...
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...
Canon Sales Fall Short of Expectations, Sigma Founder Passes Away
Canon’s president Tsuneji Uchida announced today that he will be stepping down to pave way for a younger management team as the company fell short of expectations for the second straight year. Canon’s stock price dropped 19% last year while Nikon’s grew 4%. The total number of Canon cameras sold dropped 4% last year, likely...
Review of the Canon XF100 v Sony’s NX70 (Updated with new NR number 2)
Finally I get a chance to asses the Canon XF100 since I have just bought one. The camcorder has a lot of features packed into its small body and non more so than full broadcast CBR 50MB/s 4:2:2 (CBR=Constant bit rate), this wee chap is a lot bigger in ...
Canon Applies For 4k Patent
Today the US Patent and Trademark Office published that on July 21st, 2010 Canon applied for a patent on a new RAW Codec. Detailed in the patent is a new method of compression that would work with larger resolutions (4k is the example they use) that would allow the user to downsample to 1080p without...
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...
Enter: The Year of the Dragon – five filmmakers record the spectacular display
By Jonah Kessel 2012: The Year of the Dragon from Jonah Kessel on Vimeo. The plan was simple: to one-up ourselves. One year earlier friends and filmmakers Paul Morris, Kit Gillet and myself decided to make a short video documenting some of the fireworks in Beijing as China celebrated the Lunar New Year. In fact,...
Canon applies for patent on RAW video?
This was just posted on twitter by @loricnet and I’m posting it to get the word out quickly – I admit that I don’t understand it yet, but Canon filed for a patent on “RECORDING SUCCESSIVE FRAMES OF RAW SENSOR DATA DEPICTING A MOVING SCENE” – it was filed on July 21, 2010 and the...
X-Circle by LockCircle – New Nikon F-mount option for Canon EF mount cameras
X-Circle by LockCircle Details The trend of filming using a HDSLR is unstoppable, and the classic EF-Mount bayonet is becoming very popular in filmmaking field like a serious alternative cinematography camera mount! The EF-Mount has a successful second life in the cinematography field, something that no-one expected when was designed to be the best still-camera...
Canon 5D Mark III Spotted in Kenya?
Photographer Stephen Oachs over at Aperture Academy caused quite a stir yesterday after sharing some photographs he took of a Japanese photographer he spotted in Kenya. The photographer revealed that he was field testing a new Canon 200-400mm with a built-in teleconverter, but what caught Oachs attention was the camera body the man was using...
planet5D poll: which pro dslr is best: Canon EOS-1D X or Nikon D4
Last week, we posted “Side by side: Nikon D4 Vs. Canon EOS 1D X – which should you buy?” and got some good feedback, but this week, we thought we’d use this as the poll question and made it simple, you can pick one or the other but nothing else. If you’re not happy with...
Canon C300 Available for Order
The Canon EOS C300 is now available for pre-order at B&H, for $15,999—in both its Canon and PL mount variants. Expected to ship around the beginning of next month.
