Archive for 'T3i'
“Nightscapes” – creating a timelapse film on a minimal budget
Posted on 06. Feb, 2012 by planetMitch.
For those of you looking to learn something about timelapse there are more and more resources going up on the web, but you’ll want to visit Daniel Freytag’s blog where he has this guest post from Phil Arntz about how he made an awesome ‘nighttime’ timelapse. Phil shot this timelapse on a Canon Rebel T2i/550D! [...]
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Rolling shutter comparison test with 6 Canon and Nikon HDSLRs
Posted on 27. Jan, 2012 by planetMitch.
Here’s an interesting analysis you might be intrigued by – rolling shutter comparisons across a group of 6 Canon and Nikon HDSLR cameras. I don’t think there’s any major surprise here, but it is an interesting read. Brief Snip via Rolling shutter comparison test | Too Much Imagination. I finally come around to piecing together [...]
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Virtually moving your camera for a timelapse thru space without a slider?
Posted on 07. Jan, 2012 by planetMitch.
Patrick Kizny sent us his latest test this morning – and it is visually impressive – a method for taking a static timelapse and moving the camera virtually thru space… I think you have to see it and think about the fact that the camera couldn’t really be moving there to then wonder how it [...]
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New Poll: Will smart phone cameras replace HDSLRs within 5 years?
Posted on 31. Dec, 2011 by planetMitch.
I’ve been reading several interesting blog posts/tweets lately about the death of the DSLR via the surge in smart phones with high quality cameras so I thought I’d ask you what you thought… I’ve included a couple of quotes below the poll to give you an idea of what some others are saying. Poll Question! [...]
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More on new Unified Magic Lantern including planet5D demo
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by planetMitch.
Jordy Vandeput sent us some exclusive additional information on the new Unified Magic Lantern version we were one of the first to announce last week. Jordy also put together a quick demo video especially for planet5D readers demonstrating several of the features (see below) as well as showing the new HDR video function does indeed [...]
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UPDATED: Canon updates EOS utility – but mac OS X Lion support is nowhere to be found
Posted on 24. Dec, 2011 by planetMitch.
Canon released a working version for Lion – read more on our post Many who upgraded to the latest operating system for Apple’s OS X Lion were a bit disappointed to find out the Canon utilities wouldn’t function – and a new version was released last Thursday, but unfortunately, Lion support wasn’t included. On a [...]
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Save $30 off the Okii MC1 USB Mini Controller!
Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by planetMitch.
We told you earlier about the new Okii MC1 USB mini controller and you can see our demo again down at the bottom of this post – but if you’re interested in buying one, right now, there’s a $30 off coupon! From the HDCamTeam site: We have been notified by Okii Systems that there is [...]
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HDR video firmware for Canon DSLRs? Magic Lantern adds new features!
Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by planetMitch.
Is it really true? A tweet this evening said that Magic Lantern has added HDR video for some Canon HDSLRs to their arsenal! We watched the video and it looks pretty impressive – but there are indeed some limitations – please read on for more info and thanks to gizmag.com for their story with all [...]
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cineLook for HDSLRs – give your HDSLR footage an instant cinema look
Posted on 07. Dec, 2011 by planetMitch.
Our friend Denver Riddle over at colorGradingCentral has come up with this FCPX plugin that will appeal to many of our HDSLR readers – it does a quick bang up job of creating a cinema look and feel for your DSLR video footage! Here’s what cineLook for HDSLRs will do for you: Tired of your [...]
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Sad day for this camera! “how to lose $2400 in 24 seconds”
Posted on 01. Dec, 2011 by planetMitch.
Hopefully this guy will read my comment about drying the camera out with rice as was done in this post from 2009 here on planet5D… always remember – if electronics get wet, dry them as best as you can (without heat) – and then place them in a big bag of uncooked white rice for [...]
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A tip: How to overcome audio weaknesses of HDSLRs
Posted on 23. Nov, 2011 by planetMitch.
At the MastersInMotionLive event we learned a lot – and one of the major topics I wanted to learn more about (and did thanks to Adam Forgione – and we’ll have Adam on our planet5D live coming up too!) was recording better audio on HDSLRs. Well, this morning I also found this little tip from [...]
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