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Live interview archive online: Benjamin Eckstein

Posted on 27. May, 2010 by planetMitch.

Well, this is certainly a learning process I’m afraid. During our chat with Benjamin Eckstein, we had some technical difficulties tonight and planetMitch made some mistakes during the broadcast. And lastly, during the first 10 minutes, there were lots of buffering issues - so I apologize for the issues, but once we got going, we [...]

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Live Interview Archive: Jem Schofield

Posted on 23. May, 2010 by planetMitch.

Here’s the archive of tonight’s chat with Jem Schofield. He’s putting on the ‘filmmaker’s intensive‘ workshop in June and produces a daily show he calls “Gearbox” on his site, theC47.com.

Our thanks go to Jem for a fascinating discussion and I wish I’d kept the recording going because the 1/2 hour after was very interesting too!
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New on the Event Calendar: planet5D live interview with Jem Schofield

Posted on 20. May, 2010 by planetMitch.

Many of you may have seen my tweet about it earlier, but I had a great chat today with Jem Schofield about a ton of different subjects surrounding the “HDSLR” world, production, post production, training, industry leaders, and beyond. It was so much fun, I asked him if we’d be able to do it all [...]

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The @mostlyLisa interview

Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by planetMitch.

We really enjoyed chatting with @mostlyLisa (Lisa Bettany) on UStream tonight and the replay is already available! At the peak, we had 65 people online watching and that’s great! That’s the main reason why I’m enjoying these interviews, because you the planet5D readers can ask the questions! We’ll be trying to do some earlier in [...]

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planet5D interview Thursday 4-29 @9pm EDT - Lisa Bettany (@mostlyLisa)

Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by planetMitch.

Wow, we’re excited to continue our new planet5D chats with Canon EOS 5D Mark II users and this week, Lisa Bettany of mostlyLisa.com fame will be joining us! I don’t know exactly when I ran into Lisa, but I know it was several years ago, long before she started using a Canon EOS 5D Mark [...]

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The first planet5D live interview with @tylerginter

Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by planetMitch.

Tonight, we held the very first live HDSLR interview and chat with our guest Tyler Ginter (@tylerginter on twitter). It went pretty well (if I say so myself) with about 18 people online at the peak. We had lots of participation too in the chat - which is exactly what I’d hoped for - a [...]

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planet5D appears in a podcast!

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by planetMitch.

Yes, it is true, we’re now famous… well, OK, not that famous, but we were interviewed this past week and published in a podcast. 16×9Cinema is starting a series of podcasts covering the “Digital Convergence” of photography and video.

“In this first episode of 16×9 Cinema’s Digital Convergence podcast, I talk with the founder and chief [...]

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planet5D interview with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II master - Vincent Laforet

Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by planetMitch.

Last week at the Collision Conference, I was blessed to meet and sit down for a few minutes with Canon EOS 5D Mark II master Vincent Laforet. He was a real joy to sit down and talk with. I have to admit tho that somehow, just before the interview, when I was nervously setting up [...]

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Q&A: Canon helps usher in the video SLR era

Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by planetMitch.

Cnet has a good story from Stephen Shankland interviewing Chuck Westfall about the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the new Rebel T1i/500D.
“Chuck Westfall, technical adviser for Canon’s professional products marketing division and a 26-year veteran at the Japanese company, is in the thick of it. Nikon was the first to market with a single-lens [...]

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