Archive for January, 2011
UPDATED: WINNER! Indie movie shot on Canon HDSLR “LIKE CRAZY” sold to Paramount for $4 million
Posted on 30. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
UPDATE 1/30/2010 – Sundance gave the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize to “Like Crazy” and Special Jury Prize, U.S. Dramatic Competition went to Felicity Jones for her performance in “Like Crazy” From the festival awards blog: Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize: Like Crazy, directed by Drake Doremus. Doremus, out of [...]
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“Hell and Back Again” by Danfung Dennis wins Sundance WORLD CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE – DOCUMENTARY
Posted on 29. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) movie “Hell and Back Again” by Danfung Dennis wins Sundance WORLD CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE – DOCUMENTARY. The website for the movie and the facebook page for the movie. Here’s the tweet with the announcement from @sundacefest WORLD CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE – DOCUMENTARY: “Hell and Back Again”, director [...]
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the HDSLR song!
Posted on 29. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
We get all kinds of submissions, but this is a first – the first HDSLR song by Cosmin and Alex Serban. Don’t know if this will cause a storm of new ideas and submissions… maybe there should be an HDSLR song contest? HA! Thought it was enough fun to show you – maybe it will [...]
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Nino Leitner (@ninoleitner) live interview podcast now online
Posted on 28. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
What fun we had yesterday with our friend Nino Leitner and all of our planet5D friends in Europe who were able to tune in to the planet5D live interview! Well, even tho we had Internet connection problems, we managed to have a great conversation and the folks in the UStream chat room asked a lot [...]
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Okii – USB Follow Focus Controller released!
Posted on 28. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
The 5D Mark II Team has sent us a special announcement that the USB Follow Focus unit we previewed earlier has been officially announced by the manufacturer Okii – and the 5D Mark II Team has a special section of their site set up with additional information as well as a discount code for $50 [...]
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Incredible “3D” motion from Canon Rebel T2i/550D stills
Posted on 27. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
You’ve seen “3D” motion done before – but this time we have a little tutorial on how it can be done and this time it is with Canon Rebel T2i/550D (reviews) still photos. First, the 3D video from stills Desert Motion from XNcreative on Vimeo. Second, the tutorial from Jeff Farmer at Xncreative “We had [...]
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Yet another Doritos Crash the Superbowl Canon HDSLR commercial!
Posted on 27. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Yes, we have yet another Doritos Crash the Superbowl commercial that was shot on the Canon HDSLRs! This one is quite popular from what we can tell… and of course, dogs are just cute right? This was sent in by JR Burningham – the writer, director and editor of this one. Commercial Click To Vote [...]
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Reminder – 2 planet5D live interviews this week @ninoleitner and Trammell Hudson
Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
This week is busy – we have 2 planet5D live interviews this week – Nino Leitner and Trammell Hudson (author of Magic Lantern). You can read more about those by clicking the links – Nino Leitner and Trammell Hudson. Practice Today! Some good constructive comments have come in about the previous podcasts and some of [...]
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The making of “The Chapel” – a nice behind the scenes HDSLR video
Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
“The Chapel” was made on Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) and we featured it on planet5D cinema in November – please watch it and give it a rating while you’re there. We’ve been in contact with Patryk Kizny (who is the Brand and Marketing Manager for DitoGear – a planet5D advertiser) who made “The [...]
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Archive of the Patrick Moreau chat now online as a podcast!
Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
UPDATE: This is an update of a post from last August – we’ve edited and reposted the video. The original video had a bad start because we had some setup issues. So we’ve edited out all that stuff as fixing a bit of the audio (I hope). We also are using blip.tv to distribute everything [...]
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Do HDSLRs and paintball mix? Of course!
Posted on 25. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
We met Travis Guerra in the planet5D HDSLR chat room the other day and found out that he’s shooting paintball matches with his Canon EOS 7D (reviews) and doing quite well. He’s got one of the top paintball video channels on youtube – Socialpaintball. This video was shot as a promo for a company and [...]














