I was contacted by Noktor if I was interested in reviewing this lens for the micro 4/3 system. Naturally I jumped at the chance. Although being away from home I don’t have all my gear. My GH1 is at home but I have my GF1 with me. Not ideal as not as good at video at all, but still usable.
Ever since the lens arrived it has lived on my GF1 and the GF1 has lived in my man bag! It’s such a fun lens to shoot with. Read more
GREAT stuff happening in Austin, Texas this weekend and Monday. I am in town to speak about HD-DSLRs at the Film Festival. Details for that presentation are here.
There are also two fantastic meet-ups this weekend at Austin during the SXSW film festival. The first one is the DVINO.NET meet up at 8pm at Clive bar, a new bar that looks very cool. Details on that including where exactly it is are found here. It’s free entry. First drink is on DVinfo and there will be some goodies to give away.
Just got back from it and had such a blast. Loads of people turned up, well over a hundred and I loved that nobody really cared about us being there. That’s Venice Beach for you….
Met so many great people as well as some old friends like 24 DP Rodney Charters, the Jag boys, David Aldirch, Brian R and loads more. Read more
We shot this short film with the hotrodcameras.com modified 7D PL mount that you can read all about here.
It was shown for the first time at the LA HD-DSLR masterclass I took yesterday in Hollywood that was a great success. Two 4 hour classes one after the other. A lot of fun, killed my voice though!
Jeremy Thomas from Raw Works cut the short and colour graded it and did a great job on it. The crew was minimal about 4 of us in total. Read more
Today I spent a day at the Races. Starting at the ungodly hour of 430am we filmed with trainer Mike Mitchell at the Hollywood stables. It was funny, I have family in the racing business in England and generally the people working in the stables are generally young blonde students (huge sweeping generalising there!) here they seemed to be Latin American guys with MASSIVE filmic moustaches. Much more fun for me to film, as people know I tend to like to film interesting looking people than the obvious pretty ones!
Big thanks to my friend Danny Dale whom I met in Austin last year who was out with his GH1 and family at Zilker Park in Austin at the weekend when he camera upon a film crew. It was an open set with just a warning if you walk past this sign then you give permission to be filmed.
Canon adds 24 and 25fps HD Movie recording to the EOS 5D Mark II with Firmware 2.0.3
London, 2nd March 2010 – Canon today pre-announces the release of a firmware update for the multiple award-winning EOS 5D Mark II. Originally announced in late 2009, the update adds 24* and 25 frames per second (fps) recording to the camera’s EOS MOVIE video function, and will be available as a free download from the middle of March. Read more
I am doing a Canon HD-DSLR masterclass in LA on the 6th March, well in fact two. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. It’s being arranged by Neil Smith of RAWworks.
I will be doing a number of workshops across the USA and Europe (and hopefully further afield) throughout the year. I will try and make these all as hands on as possible. I will be putting more info on the content of this LA masterclass on this page over the next few days. You can book now by clicking here. Any suggestions are welcome on the blog post about this year’s classes.
There will also of course be an informal meet up like last time sometime during my time in LA. Looking at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday the 7th of March. Should be a good turnout for that one!!! (please do not turn up to this as it’s a joke!) Read more
I love cameras, anyone who knows me knows I have more cameras than one person could ever have a use for!
There is no need for me to buy the new 550D/ T2i. I have a 7D and two 5DmkIIs after all, I even have a 500d! So why would i buy one? I simply wanted to see just how capable it was as a video camera. I don’t care too much about it’s still camera abilities, apart from for timelapse, but it’s identical video frame rates to the 7D and that price tag meant could become a very popular camera in the mass market. I wanted to get one so I could review it, test it, be able to answer people’s questions about it which I am bound to get and of course shoot on it. After all I love shooting more than anything and this is a small, light, cheap camera. Just how good can it be?
The Eos Video line up thanks to Dan Chung
As reported by Canonrumors.com and from a presentation in Poland we are getting 24p, 25p and 30p but no 720p mode at all. Personally am not surprised at lack of 720p. The 5dmkii chip heats up a lot when shooting video, more than the 1dmkiv and 7d chips and asking it to do twice as many frames a second may have caused spontaneous combustion!!
We are getting live histogram for exposure, manual audio with 64 level increments and change to 48khz for sound. All good stuff. Strange we are getting details released so oddly…we also had earlier reports that Canon had the timeframe as mid March on their site but that vanished quickly.
Well I guess we will find out what is and isn’t true soon. I am assuming there is not a second slide showing Zebras, headphone, 720p etc…!!
and many more!!
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