Tag Archives: 5D
A Call to Action – tell Canon what you want in your next HDSLRs
Posted on 25. Apr, 2011 by planetMitch.
Have you ever told Canon what you want in your next HDSLR? Well, now is a good time to take that action and to let them know what you need! Friend of planet5D James Drake watched an interview with Chuck Westfall at NAB (by Clint Milby) and decided to ask everyone to take the time [...]
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II film wins ‘shorts’ category of the second International Forest Film Festival (IFFF)
Posted on 28. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
“Man of the Soil” (shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark II) wins International Forest Film Festival (IFFF) award for Filmmaker Pierre Deschamps. We got a chance to see this late last year and we’re very proud to let you know that it has won an award. Canon feature Canon featured this movie on their Canon [...]
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II shutter count actuation utility
Posted on 17. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Update: Well there’s not really much to update – but this is a older post that continues to have lots of hits, so I thought I’d at least re-post it in case there are those of you who haven’t seen it since it was posted in 2009. I have written to the utility’s author to [...]
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Documenting endangered flora with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Posted on 27. Oct, 2010 by planetMitch.
It is always a great pleasure to find people doing really positive things for people or the enviornment with their Canon HDSLRs and this one is a wonderful example – Glen Ryan is using his Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) to document his efforts to propagate and save endangered Australian flora. planet5D friend Victoria [...]
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Manta Ray borrows diver’s Canon EOS 5D Mark II and takes it for a spin
Posted on 15. Sep, 2010 by planetMitch.
We first saw this on petapixel – a diver was swimming with a bunch of Manta Ray’s and filming them with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) when one of the rays decided to take his whole rig for a little adventure! From the youtube description: What began as another exhilarating manta ray night [...]
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It’s a bird… it’s a plane… no it’s a Canon EOS 5D Mark II – stabilized in perfect GPS position
Posted on 16. Aug, 2010 by planetMitch.
A Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) flying like a bird or a plane or a helicopter, Perspective Aerials has a new GPS enabled 4-rotor drone service for you – a Canon EOS 5D Mark II flying stabilized and in perfect GPS position. We recently had another post about sending your camera aloft and it [...]
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The world’s first 35mm ENG Camera – a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Sony mashup
Posted on 21. Feb, 2010 by planetMitch.
Boy, I’m sorry to report I’m way behind on this one – I just found it and others reported it last fall… a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Sony Betacam mashup. I sort of actually remember maybe seeing a still image of this and thinking it was just a joke, but I was wrong [...]
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Philip Bloom compares the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Canon EOS 7D
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by planetMitch.
Philip Bloom starts off this very important article about the Canon EOS 7D and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II with this: “5D or 7D? That is the question” “To paraphrase a famous quote… HOW many emails have I had asking me this? Oh and I will be referring to the 5dmkII as the 5d [...]
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