Nikon Getting Serious About Video, May Soon Enter the Cinema Market
It’s certainly not as strange or unexpected as their possible move into the world of cosmetics, but rumors are now floating around that Nikon is getting serious about making video cameras. In an interview with TechRadar, a spokesperson for Nikon UK said that Nikon “is not a broadcast company… yet.” He went on to imply...
30 Minute Video Limit in Digital Cameras May Be On Its Way Out
News recently broke that the 30 minute (or rather 29 minute and 59 second) time limit on DSLR video may soon be a thing of the past. Interestingly however, the reason for the potential change has nothing to do with updated hardware or software. The only reason DSLRs don’t already shoot longer video is because...
Winners of the 1st Annual APA Members Short Video Contest on Vimeo
Tweet Pin It Tweet I was blessed to be one of the judges of the American Photographic Artist Members Short Video Contest back in early April and I thought it would be fun to see the winners! Many of these entries were shot by folks who are photographers learning video. But before we get to...
“Incident on Marmont Avenue” – Production Diary – #2 – What? we need a camera?
Tweet Pin It Tweet Not long after Barry Andersson and I decided to shoot “Incident on Marmont Avenue” with the Canon EOS 5D Mark III, I thought it would be great to keep a ‘production diary’ and my plan is to share it with you – but not all at once as that would be...
Redrock announces the ultraCage DSLR and ultraBase
Tweet Pin It Tweet Our sponsor Redrock Micro has a new HDSLR cage called the ultraCage DSLR and base they’ve announced. The all new ultraCage DSLR and ultraBase: the essential accessory for your video DSLR camera. Beautifully crafted, form fitting, the ultraCage and ultraBase deliver maximum stability with minimum weight, and open up a world...
Creating Still Photographs by Extracting Frames from HD Video
Are we close to the point at which HD video cameras are so good that professional photographs can simply be extracted from footage rather than shot with a still photography camera? That’s a question photographer Kevin Arnold had, and when he finally got his hands on a $65,000 RED camera he decided to seek an...
Pay it forward – @stillmotion’s share project
Tweet Pin It Tweet You guys all know by now how much I love what Patrick Moreau and his @stillmotion team are doing – good golly I talk about them a lot – but this latest project grabbed my heart and I had to share it with you. Especially since it involves giving back to...
60 Second Portrait: Guy Kawasaki
Here’s another 60 Second Portrait, starring Guy Kawasaki this time. I shot this after our recent episode of chasejarvisLIVE. If you dig it, check out the rest of my 60 Second Portraits here.
planet5D and Deodand Entertainment present “Incident on Marmont Avenue” a Canon EOS 5D Mark III short film
Tweet Pin It Tweet On November 12, 2011 the police were called to an incident at 1701 Marmont Avenue. This film is the story of what happened that night. This project is one of the first narrative films to showcase the Canon EOS 5D Mark III. Still photographers and filmmakers can see the new features of...
Watch How the $2.79 Million Leica Camera Auction This Past Weekend Went Down
Want to see how the world’s most expensive camera was auctioned this past Saturday? The video above shows the 1923 Leica O-Series going up at the WestLicht Photographica Auction and being sold at the record-breaking price of $2.79 million after auction fees and tax. WestLicht points out that these cameras have been appreciating like crazy...
Smile: Video Clips of People Posing for Still Photos
Here’s a humorous short film titled “Smile” by director Dean Fleischer-Camp, who regularly asks people to pose for a photograph but then secretly records video instead. It shows how poses that look so natural in still photographs can look so completely awkward in videos. Update: Long Awkward Pose is a website dedicated to this very...
