Archive for 'GH2'
Best Camera for Under $1000? Canon Rebel T4i, Sony NEX 6 and Panasonic GH2 battle for the crown
Posted on 28. Jan, 2013 by planetmitch.
Kevin Good is at it again – this time with an under $1000 camera battle of the fittest featuring: Canon Rebel T4i with 18-55mm kit lens ($899) Sony NEX-6 with 16-50mm kit lens ($998) Panasonic GH2 with 14-42mm kit lens, both stock and with Flowmotion v2.02 hack ($699) Let’s get this out of the way: [...]
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The great next HDSLR features poll… what do you want in your next pro DSLR?
Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by planetmitch.
With all the cameras recently announced (like the Canon EOS 5D Mark III and the Nikon D800) and many of them having the features you indicated you wanted in the last poll, we thought we’d ask the question again! If you don’t recall, back in Dec 2010, we asked you what features you wanted in [...]
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rgrain – add grain to your film with these new texture clips
Posted on 23. Feb, 2012 by planetmitch.
We talk a lot about the noise and grain in video and stills – but sometimes you want to add grain texture to your film – so how do you do that? rgrain has come out with a new set of inexpensive clips you can add to your project with any editor and for clips [...]
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Letus announces Shane Hurlbut Master Cinema Series HDSLR support rigs
Posted on 04. Oct, 2011 by planetmitch.
Letus (maker of HDSLR support rigs and the Letus Hawk Viewfinder) have announced a partnership with Shane Hurlbut ASC where they’re going to be releasing a new line of HDSLR support rigs. Letus is going to be announcing more details about this on Saturday October 15th (and I’ll be there for the announcements) but they’ve [...]
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gps4cam for Android released – geotag your DSLR photos on you phone
Posted on 29. Sep, 2011 by planetmitch.
Back in June, we told you about the great little iPhone app called GPS4cam – allowing you to use the gps unit in your iPhone to generate geotag data for your DSLR camera – well, now they’ve released the Android version so those of you who have been dying to get it can now jump [...]
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Switronix announces new power cable for Panasonic GH2
Posted on 02. Sep, 2011 by planetmitch.
A quick announcment for you Panasonic GH2 fans – Switronix has a power cable for the GH2 for those times where you don’t want to run your camera off a battery. SWITRONIX RELEASES NEW POWER CABLE FOR PANASONIC LUMIX GH2 CAMERAS (July 27, 2011) – Long Island, NY – Announcing the XP-DSLR-GH2, the newest addition [...]
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Macro Extravaganza with marbles shot on hacked GH2
Posted on 02. Sep, 2011 by planetmitch.
We don’t get that many GH2 videos so I thought I’d pass this one along here – it was shot with a hacked GH2 Of course you can see lots of HDSLR movies over on planet5D Cinema! Macro Extravaganza with marbles Description Trying the new physics engine of upcoming Cinema 4DR13. Also using greyscalegorilla lightkit [...]
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What impact does shutter speed have on HDSLR video?
Posted on 09. Aug, 2011 by Maddie.
When learning about HDSLR video, people often ask “what should my shutter speed be?” And they often rely on their photographic background and want to bump the shutter speed up pretty high because they want the action to be frozen like in their photographs. But, that isn’t the way movies are made and that can [...]
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Slow motion – the 1% factor – in Final Cut Pro X
Posted on 14. Jul, 2011 by planetmitch.
Remember all those cool Twixtor movies slowing down HDSLR footage to really really slow speeds? It turns out you can do that very nicely in FCPX without a plugin. I tried this on some Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) footage and it worked nicely. [source: tweet from Richard Harrington "Slow motion at 1% using [...]
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Another example of how dangerous lasers can be for your HDSLR sensor!
Posted on 08. Jul, 2011 by planetmitch.
Last year, we posted about how dangerous lasers can be (see post) for your HDSLR sensor and now, there are other examples popping up on youtube. So this is just a reminder of how dangerous they can be – just in case you didn’t know! It isn’t a problem taking video of a laser show [...]
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Hack for the Panasonic GH2 announced
Posted on 07. Jul, 2011 by planetmitch.
Vitaliy Kiselev has released a new hack for the Panasonic GH2 – Vitaliy is the same guy who released the first hack for the GH1… but it should be noted this is just the first release and many of the GH1 hack features aren’t here. Vitaly’s site is here [source: EOSHD] Some details GH2: * [...]
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New DSLR Filmmaker toolkit app for iPhone
Posted on 24. Jun, 2011 by planetmitch.
New DSLR Filmmaker’s toolkit app for iPhone is not just another pretty slate app – it has a bunch of tools combined into one useful app – slate, sunset & sunrise, bubble level, shot log (based on the slate), DOF calculator, and last but certainly not least a camera & lens view estimator. Demo Video [...]











