Archive for February, 2011
Canon announces the new Rebel EOS T3i / 600D / Kiss X5
Posted on 07. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It Canon announced two new cameras today – the Rebel EOS T3i / 600D / Kiss X5 and the Rebel T3 / 1100D / Kiss X50 – we’ll publish two stories because they are different and might attract different readers… but we’ll also cover the similarities in one comprehensive post that will include [...]
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Drops of Hope; Water, Wells and Aid – a kickstarter HDSLR documentary
Posted on 06. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It “Drops of Hope” – here’s another project that you might be interested in contributing to – a documentary about water issues in Tanzania that is looking to raise a bit of money to help finish the filming of this project. Kickstarter is a great place to help filmmakers raise money to fund [...]
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New On-Camera LED Lights from ikan starting at $99 UPATED with more video
Posted on 04. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It ikan announces new on-camera LED options – and the options for lighting just continue to grow! The iLED from ikan looks like a nice solution if you want something really compact and pricing starts at $99! There are three new LEDs shown below. UPDATE: Videos of the ikan iLED 312 and ikan [...]
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Follow up… SmallHD DP6 winner posts photos
Posted on 04. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It As an update – our winner of the SmallHD DP6 has posted some photos on the planet5D forums (and we’re copying a few of them here). We just thought you might like to see how excited Amila is to have this new tool in his tool shed. Again, we were so happy [...]
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New Gale Tattersall HD DSLR Workshops
Posted on 04. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It We posted earlier about Gale Tattersall’s HDSLR master classes, but there have been some additional sessions set up we thought you’d like to know. Visit HD DSLR Workshops for more information as well. Of course, these sessions have been added to the planet5D HDSLR event calendar! New Promo movie Press release about [...]
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Converge Festival 2011 announced
Posted on 04. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It The Converge Festival first appeared in late 2009 and then again in 2010 and this year’s event appears to be even better – it will be March 1st and 2nd, 2011 and is being held @ London BFI, Southbank (NFT3). To buy tickets and find out all of the information, please visit [...]
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Win a Rode Videomic Pro on planet5D forums in February from DVeStore
Posted on 02. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It As we reported a couple of weeks ago, RØDE has announced a new Videomic Pro and thanks to the DVeStore, we’re going to be giving one away! The DVeStore DVeStore spun off from DVcreators.net to fulfill the overwhelming requests of “What gear should I buy?” Since 2004 we have been helping content [...]
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AdoramaTV interviews planetMitch for “How’d they do that?”
Posted on 01. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It A few weeks ago, Mark Wallace (@jmarkwallace) from AdoramaTV contacted me about possibly doing an interview for their series that they’re doing on HDSLR cameras and photographers – how could I turn them down? You can watch below – but also give their Adorama Learning Center a visit to find out more [...]
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Zacuto – new planet5D sponsor and Zacuto specials
Posted on 01. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It We’re happy to welcome Zacuto to the planet5D advertising family and what better way to kick that off than to have them running a special at the same time! You can take advantage of either (or maybe both) of these specials: Buy a Zacuto Striker & Receive a free Z-Finder Pro, 2.5x [...]
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planet5D live interview recording of Trammell Hudson now online
Posted on 01. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It Trammell Hudson is an amazing guy – and so are the others who are helping out with the Magic Lantern project – as we learned from the planet5D interview with Trammel this past Sunday. The interview is online now and you can watch it below or if you want, you can see [...]
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Back by Popular Demand: Canon DSLR Hands-on Training Boot Camp in LA!
Posted on 01. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Tweet Pin It Our friends at Canon Boot Camp are back at it – and this is coming up quickly on February 5th in LA area! I’m happy to announce another one of our highly successful Canon Boot Camp is back in full force February 5th from 1-6pm. EVS is hosting us and we will [...]












