Tag Archives: news
Update on HDSLR ScoopNews – three choices for news now on planet5D
Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by planetMitch.
We’re constantly striving to find the hot HDSLR news for you and as of a few days ago, we’ve added another option – we’re calling it “ScoopNews” – we now have three different ways for you to read about your favorite gear, photography, and HDSLR filmmmaking. I’ll explain each of them and I’ll go into [...]
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What the heck is this ‘scoop.it’ HDSLR thing?
Posted on 21. Oct, 2011 by planetMitch.
Many of you who follow planetMitch on twitter, facebook, google+ etc have seen posts that have a ‘scoop.it’ label and probably have wondered what the heck it is – oh, and now you can see it in the right sidebar here on the blog as well. We’re constantly searching the web for HDSLR news to [...]
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Now you can submit HDSLR news to the community!
Posted on 08. Aug, 2011 by planetMitch.
We just found this WordPress plugin that will let you post news to the entire community and it will appear on the planet5D sidebar as well as the HDSLR news page. The Community News Demo New planet5D Community News from planetMitch on Vimeo. Ways to see the submissions You can see the news in the [...]
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NPR Reporting on Prostitution – Stephen Alvarez uses HDSLRs
Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by planetMitch.
Stephen Alvarez has been working with HDSLRs for a while now (we’ve been following him since 2009) and has sent us this report on prostitution he’s done for NPR with his Canon EOS 5D Mark II. You can see the entire report on NPR’s “Rising Up From Prostitution In Nashville“. Stephen told us “I shot [...]
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Dan Chung-conversation about the controversial Japan Tsunami coverage
Posted on 01. Apr, 2011 by planetMitch.
We got to have a surprise guest on the planet5D LIVE show the other day – Dan Chung (dslrnewsshooter.com) – a reporter for places like the Guardian.co.uk and of course we talked about the controversy surrounding his reporting of the events. We again thank Dan for taking time to have a conversion and for engaging [...]
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Condition ONE – a Canon HDSLR based virtual reality system for news
Posted on 30. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
We found this story on dlsrNewsShooter.com while doing additional research for our interview with Dan Chung – we’d also heard about it when making this report: ‘“Hell and Back Again” by Danfung Dennis wins Sundance WORLD CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE – DOCUMENTARY‘ but there weren’t many details (and there still aren’t many either), but we’re [...]
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Surprise interview! Dan Chung (dslrnewsshooter.com) on the Japan Tsunami reporting
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
The tragic events in Japan have touched us all in one way or another – and when we found out Guardian.co.uk reporter Dan Chung (dslrnewsshooter.com) was flying into that disaster to cover it as a news gatherer, we were concerned for his safety. Dan’s back home now and has agreed to come on planet5D live [...]
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Controversial Canon HDSLR news video of the Japan tsunami from Dan Chung
Posted on 14. Mar, 2011 by planetMitch.
Should cinematic techniques be included in news coverage? The guardian.co.uk has Dan Chung in Japan covering the earthquake and tsunami and he’s using the Canon HDSLRs (I think he has a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with him but I don’t have confirmation). Dan posted one of their news videos on vimeo and it has [...]
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Top 10 planet5D news from 2010 and some analysis
Posted on 14. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
Yes, I know that 2010 passed already – and the time for doing the “top xxx of 2010″ is over – but as a part of my thinking about what the future will bring, I was wondering what the readers really thought were the most interesting stories from last year (based on total views) and [...]
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Top 5 HDSLR news of the week, contests, and blog tool experiments
Posted on 12. Feb, 2011 by planetMitch.
The top 5 most visited pages from this past week on planet5D along with some vendor news, giveaways, and some tools we’re experimenting with on planet5D. Please don’t be shy and let us know what you feel about the experiments – either in the comments below or via the contact page. Top 5 stories Incredible [...]
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HDSLR Week In Review – Saturday, December 11
Posted on 11. Dec, 2010 by planetMitch.
Thought I might try something a little different and y’all can let me know if you like it… we’re all busy and our inbox is flooded with lots of things grasping at your attention and I’m sure it is difficult to catch all of the HDSLR news – so I thought a weekly summary might [...]
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