Tag Archives: photography
LockCircle K-Circle Wireless Controller for Canon EOS Cameras
Posted on 16. May, 2013 by Keith Alvendia.
There are a couple of USB controllers on the market, but the other day, LockCircle announced their entry in the game, the K-Circle – and the K-Circle has the option of being wireless where the others are wired. LockCircle K-Circle – The Professional USB Wireless Controller for Canon EOS Cameras For more information, visit K-Circle [...]
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The Multiplate: The DSLR filmmaker’s essential mounting hub
Posted on 08. May, 2013 by Keith Alvendia.
In case you haven’t seen this one, we thought we’d let you know about a kickstarter project for a new mounting plate. The Multiplate The Multiplate was designed by Tom Dowler, co-owner of Long Haul Films, award-winning Boston-based wedding and live event filmmakers. Frustrated by a lack of simple, easy-to-use and cost effective solutions for [...]
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Win a Canon EOS 6D or Nikon D600 from B&H and planet5D!
Posted on 06. May, 2013 by planetmitch.
Win a Canon EOS 6D or Nikon D600 from B&H Photo/Video! or A Bolt Pro or a Cube from Teradek We’re giving away! Over $9,000 in prizes! including: 7 Microphones from RØDE! A rig and follow focus from ikan and much more! Yes! Today we’re launching this major giveaway here on planet5D! See the [...]
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planet5D special discount! Syl Arena’s Speedliter’s Intensive tour of the US!
Posted on 03. May, 2013 by planetmitch.
Syl Arena is a specialist – he knows the Canon Speedlights like no other person I know! He’s got a great book called “Speedliter’s Handbook: Learning to Craft Light with Canon Speedlites” — you can read my review here: “Speedliter’s Handbook” – I HATE this book! You should buy it!“. I met Syl several years [...]
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DSLR Pinhole Video? Is this something for your arsenal?
Posted on 01. May, 2013 by Keith Alvendia.
Well, it turns out that this past weekend (April 28th) was Pinhole photography day – I’ve been working on this story for a while, but you’d think I would have run into that date somewhere HA! There are literally thousands of different ways to shoot – and one of the earliest was shooting without a [...]
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Magic Lantern blows up the HDSLR world with 14bit RAW stream in LiveView
Posted on 26. Apr, 2013 by planetmitch.
Recent RAW data developments have led to the discovery of the 14bit RAW stream in LiveView. DNG pics with no shutter action now possible on the 5D2 and 5D3! With this post about 5 hours ago, the Canon 5D market just blew up with new possibilities. UPDATE: SEE THIS POST FOR MORE INFO Note: this [...]
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4k video from an RC Drone? The Canon EOS 1D C takes flight!
Posted on 23. Apr, 2013 by Keith Alvendia.
There are several ways to get 4k video from an airborne platform, but here’s the first flight of the Canon EOS 1D C on a small remote controlled drone that we’re aware of… 1DC DRONE TAKES FLIGHT WONDERBLOG ’1DC DRONE – FIRST FLIGHT’ Last week Anthony Jacobs (founder of Perspective Aerials) reached out to tell [...]
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The Canon EOS 5D Mark III helps team shoot stills and DSLR video in a “lean” way (NSFW)
Posted on 28. Mar, 2013 by planetmitch.
Here’s an example of where a Canon EOS 5D Mark III can help your team be “lean” (small and agile) and still shoot stills and video for your customer quickly. Chris Gramly contacted us about this shoot where he was asked to produce a marketing piece for a spa – here’s part of his email [...]
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Canon EOS 7D Mark II test model specs? Rumor alert
Posted on 28. Mar, 2013 by planetmitch.
Northlight Images is reporting some interesting specs for a “test” Canon EOS 7D Mark II – of course, this is just rumor, but there are some interesting things to note… Canon EOS 7D II “test” specs In what we’re told is info from a test camera [thanks] it seems that Canon will continue with its [...]
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A Genie can help you control your camera motion and timelapse!
Posted on 28. Mar, 2013 by planetmitch.
We got this press release last week and we’re dying to try one out! The new Genie camera motion control unit was launched last year as a Kickstarter project and it is now in full production. We’re looking forward to meeting this team at NAB in a couple of weeks. And, just look how small [...]
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Rise of the Multicopter for AP part two – “Choosing the right Multicopter”
Posted on 18. Mar, 2013 by planetmitch.
planetMitch note: this is the second part of a series (part 1 here) being written for planet5D by TJ Diaz – we’ll have more to come soon! Also please note that TJ sells these copters Join in on the conversation about Multicopters for photography and video in the planet5D forums – this is a whole [...]
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What would you do with a LensBaby and two rolls of film? See what Vincent Laforet did
Posted on 08. Mar, 2013 by planetmitch.
I had the pleasure of knowing Vincent Laforet for almost 4 years now, and reading his latest blog post is really quite a pleasure and I wanted to make sure you saw it. We’re including a piece of it below and would suggest you support Vincent by visiting his blog to read the rest. He [...]
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