Posts Tagged ‘shutter’

What is Shutter Count and why should you care? Well...have you seen what’s been going on at eBay lately? In the past month, 20 or so U.S. location, working Canon 5D Mk II bodies – the camera that really set off the DSLR video revolution…

There's a battle on in the Mac App store for Canon shutter count (actuations) utilities - a new contender has appeared EOS Inspector and it is throwing down on ShutterCount (that we posted about here)[adrotate group="6"] - and note, that post gets a lot of…

One of the oldest questions around the DSLR market has always been "how many shutter actuations does my camera have?" In fact, one of the most popular posts in the past was this planet5D article "Canon EOS 5D Mark II shutter count actuation utility" Well…

Everyone loves to know what the shutter on a new camera sounds like so when we were getting our hands on the Canon EOS 5D Mark III we recorded the shutter sounds for you. [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] Canon EOS 5D Mark III shutter sound!…

When learning about HDSLR video, people often ask "what should my shutter speed be?" And they often rely on their photographic background and want to bump the shutter speed up pretty high because they want the action to be frozen like in their photographs. But,…

Update: Well there's not really much to update - but this is a older post that continues to have lots of hits, so I thought I'd at least re-post it in case there are those of you who haven't seen it since it was posted…

Mike Kobal has sent in plenty of material before and we just had to show you this one as well - his Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) vs Panasonic Lumix GH2 - rolling shutter comparison. Rolling shutter comparison, Canon 5D mark II vs Panasonic…

Mike Huetz has presented this very intriguing manual fix for removing any 'rolling shutter' (often called the "jello effect") from your video using Adobe's After Effects. I am no expert, but I would imagine there's a way to do it in FCP as well. It…

I've been darn busy with a bunch of things (including our house remodel which is taking twice as long as we expected) and I've found quite a few things to post, but I just haven't made the time to post them. So, I thought I'd…

Good friend of planet5D @tylerginter sent us this very interesting article he published in his blog about the 180 Degree Shutter and what it means for shooting video and for those of you wanting more of a "film" look for your movies. The article is…