APRIL FOOLS JOKE: Philip Bloom gets an exclusive: Canon DSLR video goes RAW!!
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch in 5D2
Philip Bloom just announced on his site…. Exclusive: Canon DSLR video goes RAW!!
UPDATE – since it is no longer April 1st – I should point out that this was an APRIL FOOLS joke by Philip Bloom (and quite funny too if you ask me).
“We have been hearing mutterings of this for the past few weeks. “Top DPs in Europe testing out RAW recording on Canon 5Dmkiiâ€. It all sounded like nonsense didn’t it? Well I can exclusive reveal today as the embargo I was given 0001 BST 1/4/10 has passed that Canon have done exactly what we wanted. RAW baby, RAW! New firmware will be released imminently for every camera from the Rebel T1i/ 500D through to the 1DmkiV giving it the much desired RAW recording on the memory cards. Not just that, but they have also finally unlocked the HDMI out to give us an uncompressed feed so we can plug in our Nanoflash or KiPro and record into a format that we have dreamed of.”
You’ve simply got to read the entire post! There’s so much RAW data in there!
(Photo credit: Philip’s tease post from Twitter )
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Will
31. Mar, 2010
This would be fantastic news indeed. I’m cautiously optimistic though as tomorrow is April 1st. Let’s hope.
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Kyle Ehrenreich
31. Mar, 2010
I will believe it when I see it. This is a great start to the April 1st pranks. Love it, bring it on!!!
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Ellsworth
31. Mar, 2010
That’s a dirty April Fool’s day joke to play on people
No need to believe
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Greg
31. Mar, 2010
Not all that funny an April Fool.
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karlhsu
31. Mar, 2010
LOL.Very funny .4.1.2010
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Henri
01. Apr, 2010
Firmware 6.6.6
April 1st????
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Bruce H
01. Apr, 2010
It was almost plausible until I saw the frame rate/image size options. Pretty good joke, it got a rise out of me.
Still would like an uncompressed HDMI out.
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corey b
01. Apr, 2010
So not cool. I was calling everyone I know. Damn, I am so let down.
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DJSOUND
02. Apr, 2010
terrible
pas tres fan de celine
mais exellent joke
thank for the dream
phil
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Alik
04. Apr, 2010
He had me going for a minute. I felt so dumb when I figured it out.
I was seconds away from posting his finding on my site http://www.slrhq.com would have been embarrassing indeed.
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Marc Nelson
05. Apr, 2010
Who is Philip Bloom?
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LaForet
06. Apr, 2010
He is the guy that looks at the 5D manual, then repeats it a hundred thousand times around the world as if he invented it and was the first to discover it.
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planetMitch
06. Apr, 2010
I have a lot of respect for Philip – he’s very knowledgeable and has spent many years in the business. Probably many more than most. You may not like him, but he’s one of the good guys.
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Zander White
26. Apr, 2010
My pop, Caleb Crosby, S.O.C. sent me this and I didn’t believe it… He said Philip is reliable so I started to believe, that is until I clicked an image! It really was a great prank.
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