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Where’s Waldo? Search for the guy behind the USA bench

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by planetMitch.

Yesterday, the world watched a fantastic hockey match between the USA and Canada (notice I list the USA first LOL). While watching the match on TV, my wife (yes, she saw him first) noticed the guy behind the USA bench was holding a Canon EOS 5D Mark II! Yes, even while totally distracted by hockey, [...]

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Haiti – how MSNBC’s David Friedman covered the quake on the 5DMkII

Posted on 27. Feb, 2010 by planetMitch.

This morning, DSLR News Shooter (dslrnewsshooter.com) has a guest post from David Friedman discussing how he covered the earthquake in Haiti for MSNBC with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. It is an interesting story – jump over there to read it please.

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“While Bill [...]

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II Stereo 3D film of the Zip Line at Robson Square (Olympics)

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by planetMitch.

Bruce Sharpe (creator of Pluraleyes (reviews)) posted this little short Canon EOS 5D Mark II Stereo 3D movie this morning. It is pretty short but interesting. “Made with two Canon 5D Mark II cameras on a home-made stereo rig. Synchronized with PluralEyes and aligned and output with Stereo3D Toolbox.” (youtube video description).

On youtube, you’ve got [...]

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Shooting F-16 Fighter Pilots with the 1D Mark IV and 5D Mark II

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by planetMitch.

I found this earlier today and had to show off Tyler Stableford’s work… Shooting F-16 Fighter Pilots with the 1D Mark IV and 5D Mark II

In November Tyler Stableford had the assignment of a lifetime, flying with F-16 fighter pilots of the 120th Fighter Squadron at Colorado’s Buckley Air Force Base, for an upcoming feature [...]

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The death of still photography?

Posted on 10. Mar, 2009 by planetMitch.

In This Week in Photography’s (TWIP) podcast is an interesting discussion of the possibility that still photography will die… the show is entitiled “The Death of Still Photography?
The future of still photography, Alex gives a PMA round-up, and Pictage CEO Jason Kiefer tells photographers to keep their day jobs”
As i listened to the beginning (where [...]

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Medical uses

Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by planetMitch.

Wow, yesterday we found commercials being filmed with the 5D mk ii, today, we discover that a doctor is using one in the operating room! Taking video of an operation for clinical studies. Note that the article includes a couple of stills from the video capture, so if you’re squeamish (like i am), read with [...]

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Rumor of new firmware

Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by planetMitch.

Denton Images reports that there’s a rumor flying around of new firmware for the 5D2.
I’ve also found this report by Tony Eckersly of a change in the wording in the 5D mk ii white paper.
And last but not least… not a rumor… if you have the original 5d, PNT reports there is indeed new [...]

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The 5D mk ii does commercials

Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by planetMitch.

The other day, i wrote a post about how people are doing some great things with the video side of the Canon 5D mk ii, but at the same time, there are others who say the 5D mk ii is too crippled to do any good work (tell that to Vincent Laforet LOL).
Just discovered a [...]

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Adorama Stock!

Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by planetMitch.

Just got off the phone with Max at Adorama – the warehouse has about 50 units in stock and they’re filling the 24 or so web orders right now. So, there are about 25 units that are available!
Please click this link to order online!
If you want to speak with someone, call MAX as soon as [...]

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