The EOSHD 5D Mark III Raw Shooter’s Guide – available now!

Monday, 17 June, 2013 12:26

The EOSHD 5D Mark III Raw Shooter's Guide

Dispelling the myths – optimising performance – never read another endless forum post again!

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My third book launches today. It is available to download immediately and for the first week you can get 33% off the usual price making it just $19.99.

It is an enormous 12 chapters and 106 pages.

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JVC launch a 4K camera with Nikon mount which gets almost everything wrong

Friday, 14 June, 2013 15:41

JVC 4K Nikon mount camera

JVC have launched a “large sensor 4K” camera with Nikon mount.

We saw a prototype of this camera a long time ago, reported here on EOSHD one and half years ago, the form factor and specs of the final model are remarkably similar to the prototype.

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Spielberg reveals Lincoln struggled to get cinema distribution, says filmmaking “heading for implosion”

Thursday, 13 June, 2013 14:15

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg has revealed the Oscar winning blockbuster Lincoln barely made it into distribution.

“[It was] this close – ask HBO”

Spielberg was speaking at the University of Southern California Film School. The problem he says is that studios aren’t taking any chances on ‘fringe’ subjects and scripts, preferring established franchises and superhero schlock directed by wannabes. If Spielberg can’t get his artistic film into cinemas, it bodes very badly for the artistic DNA of cinema and the viability of the business which for so long has fed of ideas and talent. Have the money-men finally killed it?

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An incredible achievement – Roald Christessen builds his own raw cinema camera and grading software

Tuesday, 11 June, 2013 13:36

Roald raw camera

There’s a new modular raw cinema camera. This one isn’t built by a camera company, or even a team. Created over the last 6 months in Flensburg in Northern Germany single-handedly by Roald Christessen, the camera features a global shutter and raw video.

Here’s an exclusive Q&A with Roald and more about the camera technology…

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Apple reveal new 4K equipped Mac Pro suitable for uncompressed raw editing. Not just pro but genius!

Monday, 10 June, 2013 22:45

New Mac Pro

The new 9.9 by 6.6 inch Mac Pro is the height of a bottle of wine and diameter of a cookie jar. Cutting edge in terms of technology it’s also a radical departure from the old models in terms of design and in my view it is going to be a huge success though I’m expecting an equally huge price tag.

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Rarevision RAWMagic for 5D Mark III – batch Cinema DNG converter for Mac!

Thursday, 06 June, 2013 12:42

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Rarevision are the creators of 5DToRGB, and developer Thomas Worth has today released an early beta version of their converter for 5D Mark III raw files on the Mac.

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Kinefinity KineRaw S35 Hands-on Review

Monday, 03 June, 2013 14:45

Fancy grading yourself? Download my pack of original files from the 5D Mark III and KineRaw S35. The file contains selected Cinema DNG frames and CineForm RAW .Mov clips from both cameras.

The Kinefinity KineRaw S35 is the most complete debut camera I’ve ever seen. Packed with features, it simply doesn’t feel like an S35 version 1.0.

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CineForm Raw and Cinema DNG converters now available for 5D Mark III raw

Monday, 03 June, 2013 00:05

resolve 5d mark iii raw

A professional workflow for 5D Mark III raw is now available.

GoPro CineForm Raw offers 10:1 compression and can be edited directly in Adobe Premiere and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 9.

Adobe Cinema DNG brings a Blackmagic Cinema Camera style workflow to the 5D Mark III and is ideal for grading uncompressed raw in DaVinci Resolve.

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It lives! 5 year old $350 Canon 50D becomes raw cinema monster

Sunday, 26 May, 2013 01:15

Magic Lantern 50D C

Avoid the inevitable price rises and buy your 50D now on eBay

It seems the 50D is the best Super 35mm DSLR for raw video from Canon.

The sensor resolves very clean highly detailed raw video with hardly any moire or aliasing, at a higher quality than the Rebel lines does.

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Canon 1D C vs 5D Mark III Raw (and C300 / GH2 resolution comparison)

Wednesday, 22 May, 2013 19:17

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This test was conducted jointly with my good friend and neighbour Rudi at Slashcam – you can read his take on it in German / in English.

In the battle of the 1080p cameras, the game has changed. Here’s how the 5D Mark III in raw recording mode compares to the best 1080p output from the Canon C300 and 1D C.

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2.5k CinemaScope anamorphic raw on the 5D Mark III

Monday, 20 May, 2013 20:33

Get the EOSHD Anamorphic Shooter’s Guide for a comprehensive guide to anamorphic lenses, which ones to use, how to get them and how to shoot

Download the 2.5k 2560×1280 Vimeo file and playback on a 2.5K or 4K display for best results

Download a pack of DNG frames from the original raw files to judge quality

The spec sheet is impressive. 14bit linear bayer raw is sub-sampled from a 6K sensor, giving 1280 lines of extremely clean resolution with an anamorphic compliant 4:3 aspect ratio.

This is in a similar league to the image quality of the Sony F35 (Superman Returns, Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland) which cost $250,000 just 5 years ago.

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Which Compact Flash cards for 5D Mark III raw video?

Sunday, 19 May, 2013 15:39

Shooting spectacular raw video on the 5D Mark III requires UDMA 7 compact flash cards. Ideally you need a 1000x 64GB or 128GB card and certainly more than one for anything but very short shoots.

Here’s my guide to which ones to go for.

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Metabones Speed Booster for Micro Four Thirds – First Look and GH3 images

Friday, 17 May, 2013 16:45

The Micro Four Thirds Speed Booster for Leica R is now in stock at Metabones!

The Speed Booster for Micro Four Thirds gives cameras like the Panasonic GH2, GH3 and Blackmagic Cinema Camera a Super 35mm / APS-C sized sensor using clever optics, in the same way that the E-mount version turned cameras like the Sony FS100 and NEX 7 into valid alternatives to full frame.

As well as shrinking the image circle of a full frame lens to fit a smaller sensor, the Speed Booster lives up to its name by giving you a 1 stop increase in brightness so that F2.8 effectively becomes F2.0.

I’ve been testing the Leica R mount version of the new Micro Four Thirds Speed Booster on the Panasonic GH3 and here are some of my early observations.

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New 5D Raw developments – plus my low light comparison with Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Friday, 17 May, 2013 01:51

First the news. Magic Lantern have playback of raw files working with early stage code. Black and white and slow frame rate but works – already. Experimental audio recording has been added. Testers and early adopters will need to see if it in sync.

Future nightly builds of the Magic Lantern 5D Mark III Alpha firmware will see raw recording start / stop added to the physical movie record button as well as many other usability improvements.

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Easier 5D Mark III raw installation guide in 4 steps

Thursday, 16 May, 2013 23:51

A full guide is now available – The EOSHD 5D Mark III Raw Shooter’s guide contains 106 pages and 12 chapters of expert advice on raw recording with the 5D Mark III and Magic Lantern!

Here’s a quick and easy way to get raw recording setup on your 5D Mark III thanks to the recent Magic Lantern developments.

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Low light test of 5D Mark III raw vs H.264

Wednesday, 15 May, 2013 03:35

The 5D Mark III is already a very capable low light camera. In its factory guise whilst not quite as clean as the Canon C300 or Sony FS100, it is the best DSLR for low light shooting (though the Nikon D5200 puts up a good fight).

But that was before the latest developments with ML Raw.

Has low light improved even further?

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BIG NEWS – Hands on with CONTINUOUS raw recording on Canon 5D Mark III

Monday, 13 May, 2013 03:04

UPDATE: here’s 2.5K raw in 1:1 crop mode -

Huge thanks go to A1ex, g3gg0, 1% and the whole Magic Lantern team.

I have no other words to describe it – this is huge news.

Magic Lantern have done the seemingly impossible and given us a continuous raw recording mode on the Canon 5D Mark III. Once activated in the menus the 5D Mark III becomes essentially a full frame Blackmagic Cinema Camera and amazingly mine has not yet exploded. No more short bursts of raw, this is the real thing.

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Filmmaking tips from J.J. Abrams – plus is he actually any good?

Saturday, 11 May, 2013 17:32

With the rise of J.J. Abrams, TV’s aristocracy has morphed into cinema’s with JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars Episode VII in the UK next year.

J.J. Abrams comes from a family of TV industry figures, his father a TV producer and his mother an executive producer. His sister is a screenwriter. Now with a string of successful TV shows behind him, he’s had a string of hits at the box office too.

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GH2 shot sci-fi Upstream Color breaks $300,000 mark at the US box office

Thursday, 09 May, 2013 17:36

Beautifully shot indie film Upstream Color debuted at Sundance in January, winning the special jury prize. Since then it has a wide release at cinemas.

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3.5k Canon 5D Mark III raw video with Magic Lantern and latest updates

Wednesday, 01 May, 2013 23:52

These past days I’ve been trying to make myself useful to Alex at Magic Lantern, testing the DNG raw video recording on the 5D Mark III with a nightly build of Magic Lantern.

Here’s what the video quality looks like in the DNG video modes at 30fps.

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