Archive for March, 2011
Japan disasters lead to tough months ahead for HDSLR buyers and manufacturers
Posted on 31. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
In the 3 weeks since the disasters struck the shores of Japan, it is becoming more evident that the disasters not only hurt and killed many tens of thousands (which we seriously care much more about!) but the economic impacts to the HDSLR makers and buyers will be high – since this blog is however [...]
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“Blood and Bone China” Victorian vampire series shot on Canon Rebel T2i/550D
Posted on 30. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
“Blood and Bone China” is a Victorian vampire epic that is available now on the web as a 12 part series and it was all shot on Canon Rebel T2i/550D! It was shot by Chris Stone (you can see one of his music videos below) and he also sent us this info. You can see [...]
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Condition ONE – a Canon HDSLR based virtual reality system for news
Posted on 30. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
We found this story on dlsrNewsShooter.com while doing additional research for our interview with Dan Chung – we’d also heard about it when making this report: ‘“Hell and Back Again” by Danfung Dennis wins Sundance WORLD CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE – DOCUMENTARY‘ but there weren’t many details (and there still aren’t many either), but we’re [...]
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The Canon EOS 7D 3K movie experiment
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
An interesting idea floating on the DVXuser forums – The Canon EOS 7D 3K movie experiment – we were alerted to this by cinegear.net. We’ve seen a couple of GH2 videos done in burst mode that were related to being 4k video (remember they’re talking about horizontal resolution – 1080 HD video is really almost [...]
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Enter the 48 Hour Guerrilla Film Competition May 13-15 and win $5k
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
We love letting you know about upcoming challenges and we got this the other day – the 48 Hour Guerrilla Film Competition happening in May (see details below). All you’ve got to do is create a movie in less than 48 hours and maybe win $5000! 48 Hour Guerrilla Film Competition Want $5000 for your [...]
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Surprise interview! Dan Chung (dslrnewsshooter.com) on the Japan Tsunami reporting
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
The tragic events in Japan have touched us all in one way or another – and when we found out Guardian.co.uk reporter Dan Chung (dslrnewsshooter.com) was flying into that disaster to cover it as a news gatherer, we were concerned for his safety. Dan’s back home now and has agreed to come on planet5D live [...]
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Noob Conundrum: Canon 60D or Panasonic GH2?
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by planetSven.
Here at planet5D, we try to bring you the best HDSLR content and news on the planet and it isn’t always easy for just one writer to provide the wide variety of content that you’d like to see – so today, we’re starting to bring you material from writers other than just good old planetMitch. [...]
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Win your very own Swedish CHAMELEON HDSLR rig
Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
We love to have ways for you to win gear – and you love it too… so here’s one sponsored by the folks at Swedish CHAMELEON (who also sent us the announcement). You can win one of their SC2:Large shoulder rigs by submitting a short film for their We know that there are plenty of [...]
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podcast #27 a wonderful conversation with Gale Tattersall HOUSE DP
Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
This past Saturday we had a really nice long conversation (almost 1.5 hours) with Gale Tattersall (DP of the FOX show “HOUSE”) on planet5D live and we know you’ll enjoy it too! There’s been a problem with our usual service for uploading the edited recording and so it is currently only available on vimeo – [...]
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podcast #26 den lennie and the sony NEX FS100 digital super 35mm camera
Posted on 25. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
Yesterday we had a conversation with Den Lennie from F-Stop Academy about the just announced Sony NEX-FS100E (see our announcement post). Of course, you’re wondering why we care since it isn’t an HDSLR? well, that’s because we want to let you know about the world surrounding the HDSLRs as well. It never hurts to be [...]
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NAB HDSLR Meetup – Monday evening at the Hard Rock
Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
For those of you going to NAB, planet5D and many many other HDSLR fanatics (and even just those who just kinda like HDSLRs) will be there – so why not get together and meet each other? As many of us have discovered (thanks to Philip Bloom for teaching us this), this HDSLR revolution is about [...]
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