Archive for January, 2011
1st bi-annual DSLRcinema International Film Festival: SPEECHLESS
Posted on 19. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
A good friend of planet5D Tracey Lee who runs DSLRcinema.com is running a film festival that you can enter and he asked us to let you know about it in case you want to enter and win. DSLRcinema has had a very successful Vimeo page in the last 18 months (approx) with contributors from all [...]
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Redrock Micro special – Free Lens Gears with purchase of bundle
Posted on 19. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
This just came in from our friends at Redrock Micro: Free Lens Gears with a purchase of any Redrock bundle or microFollowFocus. Read the details below (cover photo credit: snap from the ad)
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This Thursday – special European HDSLR chat
Posted on 19. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Several of us were talking in the planet5D HDSLR chat room the other day and those in the room from Europe thought that we needed to have an “introduction” session for those folks over in Europe – so this Thursday – January 20th, at 20:00 GMT (that’s 8pm GMT). We’ll be gathering in the chat [...]
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The Shane Hurlbut planet5D HDSLR podcast is online!
Posted on 18. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Sorry for the delay but finally the Shane Hurlbut planet5D HDSLR podcast is online! Shane and I and everyone in the chat room ended up talking so long last night the file was bigger than the hosting service allowed so we ended up splitting it into two pieces. Shane was gracious enough to spend almost [...]
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New Hurlbut Visuals contest – “Where’s the 5D?”
Posted on 18. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Yesterday in the planet5D live interview (which will be online later today as a planet5D podcast), Shane Hurlbut announced a new contest called “Where’s the 5D?” and the object is for you to identify which Canon HDSLR shot each scene of the new Marines commercial “For Us All”. The contest See if you can figure [...]
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Winter – a beautiful HDSLR short with some slider BTS
Posted on 17. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
This is sent in by one of our sponsors – DitoGear – but don’t let that fool you too much – it is a beautiful video of winter in Poland with some DitoGear slider and a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and behind the scenes work that helps those of us who don’t have sliders [...]
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planet5D has moved to a new home
Posted on 17. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Just a quick note to let you know that planet5D has moved to a new hosting provider and hopefully things will be a bit more smooth and a lot faster. We’ve picked the same provider that Philip Bloom moved to when he was having trouble… so we’ll either sink or fly together HaHa! HostDuplex Sam [...]
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Panasonic GH2 video of Tony Hawk and other skateboarders
Posted on 15. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Did you guys know there are other HDSLR cameras other than the Canon EOS 5D Mark II? Ha, I’ll bet you did. One of them getting a lot of attention lately is the Panasonic GH2. If you’ve seen the poll in the right hand margin, the GH2 is in the top 5. We’ll be covering [...]
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Get your movie ready for the Cinema Out of Your Backpack festival
Posted on 14. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
This has been announced on other blogs, but we’ve been asked to post it as well just to get the word out. Cinema Out of Your Backpack is a festival celebrating a new revolution in film-making. DSLR video cameras, the game changers in the film industry, are creating extraordinary new possibilities for every filmmaker: cinema-quality [...]
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Three day HDSLR workshops by Kevin Shahinian & Joe Simon in London and NYC
Posted on 14. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
Back in October, these two guys offered HDSLR workshops in Cabo San Luca and Cancun and now they’re doing the same thing in NYC and London! And we’ve added them to the planet5D international HDSLR event calendar: Two new HDSLR workshops with very small class sizes taught by Kevin Shahinian & Joe Simon. These classes [...]
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New RØDE VideoMic Pro announced – update 3
Posted on 14. Jan, 2011 by planetMitch.
A quick post about the new RØDE VideoMic Pro – was just announced over on Philip Bloom’s blog – read about it now. We’re trying not to duplicate news from other sources as you can read all of the news on the HDSLR news page – but we thought this was significant! And, this is [...]














