Paris – 26 gigapixels – shot with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.
Rob Galbraith just posted this one on his blog. A record breaker in size, it is made from over 2300 individual Canon EOS 5D Mark II images. Don’t miss out on the photographer’s blog as he describes how it was done as well. They used 2 5D2s to make the shoot go faster as well [...]
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“Why We Fight” – an amazing Canon EOS 5D Mark II Special Forces movie
Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.
Tyler Ginter (@tylerginter) has sent us his blog post about the new Special Forces movie “Why We Fight” – which was filmed entirely on Canon EOS 5D Mark II cameras. You have simply got to take a few minutes to watch this!
From Tyler’s blog post: ““Why We Fight” contains never before Released footage of the [...]
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Update: March 2010 This article has gotten a lot of use since it was first published on Jun 16, 2009 and I thought that it would be a good time to re-issue this. Especially in light of @fcwestfall’s posting of this excellent article “This lens is soft” and other FACTS from LensRentals.com
“My images from the [...]
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“City of Lakes” – amazing wedding movie filmed with Canon HDSLRs
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.
You’ve got to watch this trailer – really – I insist. I’ve not seen a wedding filmed with five Canon 7Ds and two 5D Mark IIs quite like this before! The scale of this film is amazing.
From the Pacific Pictures blog: “There are so many ways to tell a story… And so much a marriage [...]
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Someone forwarded this on twitter (sorry don’t recall who), and it is a must see video if you’re learning how to make movies.
From the MacVideo site: “In this, Part 2 of the MacVideo interview with Stu Maschwitz, he tells why shooting and replay at 24 frames per second is so important to the filmmaker..
Stu Maschwitz [...]
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Jordan (@jdog23) sent us this awesome little video shot on the Canon EOS 7D… thought it deserved a full post.
Vancouver 2010 Olympics from Jordan Megahy on Vimeo.
Oh my, where do I begin? This past month has been an amazing time in my life. Met countless people, saw some incredible things, and best of all. I [...]
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Earlier today, we got this alert from one of our loyal readers (thanks @eplatero) and several others have pointed it out as well – but the alert is that Ron Howard (imdb profile – famous director and TV star) has been spotted using either a Canon EOS 5D Mark II or a Canon EOS 7D [...]
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“I am Immune” – product ad filmed with Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.
Denver Riddle sent us this one and it is pretty impressive – a product short based on a hit movie. “This was a short film product piece imitating the popular “I Am Legend” feature film starring Will Smith.” It was filmed with 2 Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs.
Denver’s blog post has quite a bit of [...]
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Thinking outside the box – tallscreen with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.
Welcome to the new world – a world where video is no longer constrained to being horizontal – it is now also vertical. Giorgio Constantine has started a new group over on Vimeo dedicated to videos made with HDSLRs that are in the vertical orientation called “tallscreen“. And why not? The web certainly has no [...]
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If you’re a follower of either @phillipBloom or I on twitter, you saw over the weekend a great effort to get me to fly out to California to meet Philip Bloom and his merry band of followers at what he’s hoping will be the world’s largest HDSLR meetup ever. I challenged everyone to put up [...]
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People are getting their hands on the Canon Rebel T2i/550D and they’re starting to produce some beautiful moving images! We posted a bit the other day about Torres Studio’s “The Bridge” and how they were using the Canon EOS 7D and 5D2 to make a cool movie. Well, now we find out they’ve gotten a [...]
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48 Hour Human Time-lapse to be made with the Canon 5D Mark II
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.
Now here’s an interesting idea – making a 48 hour timelapse of a humanoid doing something… these guys are doing this and have put together this promotional video to kick off interest. They will also be raising money for Haiti and Chile relief efforts.
Marty Stalker sent us this additional information from his blog as well [...]
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In a news release that hit my inbox a little bit ago, Canon has released details of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II firmware update that is now officially due in “mid-March” (which matches rumors).
The “firmware upgrade 2.0.3 for the EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR Camera will be coming in March of 2010. [...]
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Yesterday, the world watched a fantastic hockey match between the USA and Canada (notice I list the USA first LOL). While watching the match on TV, my wife (yes, she saw him first) noticed the guy behind the USA bench was holding a Canon EOS 5D Mark II! Yes, even while totally distracted by hockey, [...]
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Wedding Photographer Jeff Ascough switches to Canon EOS-1D MKIV
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.
Famed wedding photographer Jeff Ascough has decided to dump his lousy Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs for a couple of Canon EOS-1D MKIV cameras. I’ve seen this mentioned in a couple of places and now I see there’s an official page over on the Canon Professional Network site.
An excerpt from his CPN blog:
“I’ve been shooting [...]
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First production Canon EOS 7D videos arriving
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Side by Side - the new Canon EOS 7D, Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Canon Rebel T1i/500D
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II to get 24 and 25fps in a firmware update!
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Vincent Laforet does it again - gets the Canon EOS-1D MKIV early and produces a movie
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"Dublin's People" a new Canon EOS 7D short from Philip Bloom
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