Posts Tagged ‘diy’

Smooth moving shots are becoming commonplace in videos these days. Steadicams with vests and articulating arms are not only expensive and require endurance and hours of training and practice, as a result they most often appear on high budget shoots with multiple member crews. If…

Found this Kickstarter project called the HipJib the other day and wanted to share it with you. I'm curious to see your reaction to this and encourage you to sound off in the comments! It seems pretty cool and could be a boon for indie…

As we keep saying, the fanatics (and I say in the kindest form of flattery) at Magic Lantern are working on a possibility - writing straight to SSD via the CF card interface... they haven't made it work yet, but it is something that could…

Jared Turinsky won the RigWheels Kit 8 - $450 value - that our good friends at RigWheels offered! We truly appreciate RigWheels as well as all of our planet5D readers who entered! As a reminder, RigWheels announced some cool new products this past month. RigWheels…

Our friends over at Rigwheels have announced a slew of new products to help photographers and Filmmakers - and we're going to be doing 4 giveaways in October - this is the fourth and final in the sequence! Since this is the fourth week of…

Our friends over at Rigwheels have announced a slew of new products to help photographers and Filmmakers - and we're going to be doing 4 giveaways in October - this is the third in the sequence - and we'll do another one next week to…

Our friends over at Rigwheels have announced a slew of new products to help photographers and Filmmakers - and we're going to be doing 4 giveaways starting today and we'll do another one every week this month! Since this is the second week of the…

Our friends over at Rigwheels have just announced a slew of new products to help photographers and Filmmakers - and we're going to be doing 4 giveaways starting today and we'll do another one every week this month! To see all their new and previous…

Carl Pendle sent us his cool demo of a DIY setup where he's using an old fashioned pistol grip to record video with an HDSLR! There are all sorts of creative ideas out there on different ways to shoot with your DSLRs aren't there? What…

We've been chatting with Greg Royar (site cinema-works) about his HDSLR DIY automated timelapse and slider rig that he's put together over in the planet5D HDSLR chat room off and on and now, he's put together a quick demo and has graciously let us share…