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Cinnafilm’s Unrivaled Dark Energy Texture Technology for Film and Video
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by planetMitch.
For those of you who have seen “Act of Valor” that was shot on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, you may have wondered how they got it to look so ‘filmic’ – and those of you paying close attention over the past 2 years or so to what Shane Hurlbut has been talking about [...]
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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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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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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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