The deal is done. April 1st is a strange news day by all accounts and it's good to have some fun, especially as the HDSLR news is a bit slow right now. But some of the real news today has been buried amongst the flurry of joking. Well, out of the blue has come this - After lengthy talks with Panasonic and Olympus, 4 new manufacturers have signed up to produce Micro 4/3rds product lines. Fuji will make a Micro 4/3rds mount mirrorless HDSLR similar to the GH1 Kodak have also joined the consortium and will produce a smaller GF1 style camera with their own sensor. ...
Canon Japan have applied to the Internet governing body for a '.Canon' domain name to be introduced. If granted, this will mean that websites can end in .Canon rather than the typical .com This openes the possibility for photgraphy related websites to have domain name addresses like www.5dmkii.canon or www.photography.canon At first glance, I'm not sure if this is going to be the greatest marketing gimmick of the 21st century, or the foundation for which all future website domain names are built. It's not just a corporate thing - should you run a website about cooking recipes, you may have www.fatboy.food ...
Final Cut Pro users now have a new (and official) way of importing footage from their EOS 5D Mk II, 7D or 1D HDSLR. According to Canon the E1 plugin is twice as fast as using Apple's Log & Transfer. "The E1 plugin enables quicker and easier editing of EOS MOVIE footage in Final Cut Pro. It converts EOS MOVIE footage to Apple’s high quality ProRes 422 codec at approximately twice the speed of Apple’s standard conversion. Additionally, users are now able to add timecode, reel names and metadata to footage quickly and easily – further enhancing the experience of EOS MOVIE users when editing their footage." ...
Above: Shane Hurlbut discusses the outcome of a HDSLR screening, versus 35mm film. Image © Zacuto Films. This promises to be the ultimate (so far) 'real world' camera test. Put away your charts, Barry Green. The Great Zacuto Shootout is coming soon and there is now a trailer up at Philip Bloom's site: http://philipbloom.co.uk/2010/03/18/...hootout-promo/ I am really looking forward to this. The format seems really exciting and it's expertly put together. They have rounded up some of the cream of the crop of DPs, which is a great achievement in itself. These professionals all share a passion for the ...
Since anamorphic lenses results in a distorted image being displayed on a camera's live view display, framing the shot on-camera can sometimes be tricky with an anamorphic lens. What you see is not what you will get later when the anamorphic squeeze works it's magic. Whilst recording the wider 2.35:1 footage from the lens is squashed into 16:9 on the GH1 or EOS cameras and it's like looking in a fairground magic mirror. I have been in touch with Steve of Zacuto today, partly to praise their rather good Z-Finder that I used on Alleyway 2.35:1 and to offer a few ideas. One of the ideas suggested was that the Z-Finder could be a perfect way to get 2.35:1 anamorphic live footage right there ...
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