planet5D-Canon HDSLR news (5Dmk2, 7D, 1Dmk4)

Using a Canon HDSLR (5D Mark II) as a webcam for skype or ustream

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by planetMitch.

As many of you know, we do our planet5D live interviews via UStream and we use Skype to help out with that. And, since we’re all about covering Canon HDSLRs like the Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews), we thought we should use one as a webcam while we’re doing the interviews (and soon to [...]

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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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creativeLIVE with Vincent Laforet

Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by planetMitch.

creativeLIVE is hosting a 3-Day Introduction to HDDLSR Cinema taught by Vincent Laforet. This a special event for photographers making the leap into video. You will come away from this online workshop with a good understanding of what tools you need for your productions, and when and how to best use them. This event starts [...]

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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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New NIN Canon EOS 5D Mark II videos

Posted on 06. Jun, 2009 by planetMitch.

Rob Sheridan and Nine Inch Nails (NIN) have released some new videos taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II live on stage. These two videos include 2 songs from the Atlanta show with Saul Williams.
UPDATE (scroll down to see the new video added June 8 - below the others)
UPDATE 2 - OOPS! Rob says [...]

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