“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...
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...
Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with some stuff that should have been there in the first place UPDATE 4
We’d heard rumors about it yesterday and 9to5mac just published the story (tho it hasn’t yet been picked up by other sites like macrumors yet surprisingly… was there an embargo that is being ignored? -update 8:54 am CT – macrumors does have a story now) Included as a free update are these features and more… read...
New Nikon D4 videos – a couple from Joe McNally
I found these two new videos from Joe McNally who’s had his hands all over the Nikon D4 and wanted to share them with you. Joe McNally Photography- Little Freddie King, Livin’ The Blues Can't see the video in your RSS reader or email? Click Here! Snip from Joe’s post Little Freddie King is the...
Sunday Poll: Two questions about the Canon EOS 5D Mark III
I enjoyed last week’s poll about which was better, the Canon EOS-1D X or the Nikon D4 simply because of the results… yep, I’m a Canon guy and was surprised at how many people were tweeting and talking about how cool the Nikon D4 was and how it was better than the Canon EOS-1D X…...
“Act Of Valor” – filming with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II around LIVE ammo!
If you’ve been following planet5D at all, you know I’m a huge fan of Shane Hurlbut and the Hurlbut Visuals team – and Shane tweeted this “Act of Valor” (IMDB) featurette this morning about shooting with LIVE AMMO, and if this doesn’t get your blood moving, I don’t know what will! If you haven’t heard,...
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...
Lindos Electronics has launched a DSLR Microphone Kit for music video production
This might be product announcement Friday ha! We’ve gotten several new product announcements that we need to get out to you and this is one of several. Chris Skirrow from Lindos Electronics sent this one in. The Minisonic Mic Kit Lindos Electronics has just launched The Minisonic Mic Kit. Aimed at musicians and videographers the...
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...
