Archive for December, 2009
Vincent Laforet and Canon announce new video contest
Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
Vincent Laforet announced this morning the new contest (tho we don’t know all the details yet) in concert with Canon and Vimeo. This is part of the announcement: (please watch the video for more information on the contest). “Introducing the first user-generated HD Video Contest where photographers become filmmakers, and we all see beyond the [...]
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Vimeo’s “Top 25″ made up of 24% Canon EOS 5D Mark II videos
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
Vimeo has published a “Top 25 of 2009″ video list and I found it interesting that just a bit less than 1/4 (6 out of 25 or 24%) of them were shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs (ok, I’m fudging the number just a bit because they included the Canon EOS-1D MKIV video “Nocturne” [...]
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Preview of the Canon EOS-1D MKIV from Europe
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
Rob Galbraith found a post by Jens Dresling, a staff photographer at Politiken in Copenhagen about his testing of the Canon EOS-1D MKIV. The post includes sample photos from a couple of news stories he was working on as a reporter would. The article is in Danish, but here is an English translation. [Original source: [...]
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More side by side – video from the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 7D and 1D MKIV
Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
We’ve highlighted some of the work from this Canadian crew already, but now, StillMotion has released a great review and video comparison of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the Canon EOS 7D and the Canon EOS-1D MKIV. And, I’ll add some of my comments at the end… canon video dslr comparisons from stillmotion on [...]
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Vincent Laforet’s “Nocturne” (shot with Canon EOS-1D MKIV) back online
Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
Vincent Laforet announced early this morning that his Canon EOS-1D MKIV movie (one of the first movies released on the pre-production units) is now available again. And, as an added bonus, there’s now a ‘behind the scenes’ video to go with it. From his blog post: “A HUGE Thank you to my co-directors Stu Maschwitz [...]
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24 hour auto racing on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
Toby Kahler sent us this amazing car racing piece he and his team from www.motionctrl.de filmed with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II (and note that this was done before the firmware update!). The movie centers around the 2009 24 hour Nürburgring-Nordschleife race in Germany. “We were contacted by Heico Sportiv in March 09 with [...]
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New Canon EOS-1D MKIV video “Prague” from Philip Bloom
Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
Philip Bloom again shows off a beautiful city – this time Prague – and this time, he’s using the pre-production Canon EOS-1D MKIV that Canon has loaned him. From his blog: “I only had the camera 48 hours and my goal was to make a film. I didn’t get a chance to do low light [...]
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Christmas Canon EOS 5D Mark II videos
Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
A couple of Christmas greetings that have been sent in to planet5D that were done on Canon EOS 5D Mark II cameras. The first is from James Fitzgerald Jr. from ColdWaterMedia who writes: “About 3 hours ago we finished editing this video. I thought your readers might really enjoy seeing it! It was shot live, [...]
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Commercials shot on Canon Hybrids like the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
Friend of planet5D Zack McTee sent in this commercial he shot on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. “As far as how we ended up using the 5d, I work with this production company called Intelligent Beauty Studios and we were shooting primarily on HVX cameras. I spend a lot of time nerding out over [...]
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World’s largest photograph taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
We found this posted this morning by @_photoradar on twitter – this series of 1665 photos taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II was stitched together to create the world’s largest photograph weighing in at 26 gigapixels. The process of creating the image is a very interesting story in itself! Once you start looking [...]
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Dan Chung shooting horses in slow motion with the Canon EOS-1D MKIV
Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by planetMitch.
A few minutes ago, Dan Chun (@DSLRinformer on twitter) posted his new Canon EOS-1D MKIV video shot at a horse racing track. In fact, not only does Dan have 1 prototype Canon EOS-1D MKIV, but he actually had 2 on hand to shoot this! “I had not one but two 1DmkIV bodies from Canon to [...]
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