[vimeo]8967457[/vimeo] Got to love this Maya 3D CGI / 7D short – A day in PARIS – Thanks Benoit Millot. Stay tuned to EOSHD this week, starting tomorrow the exciting news on Sony’s next line of HDSLRs plus an interview with Philip Bloom’s intern on the set of Red Tails, Nino Leitner and Part 2 of my interview with Rob McLachlan ASC / CSC
Month: May 2010
As regular readers (the best kind) will know I recently joined DigitalRev as a contributor. This time I went out and about with my Sony HX5 to get the low-down on how it’s Sweep Panorama produces amazing digital fisheye images, which are almost identical to ones done with a real fisheye lens! You can read the article here
[vimeo]12150129[/vimeo] Fullscreen it (button is working properly now) and good speakers / headphones recommended – as ever sound track is as part of this as the visuals!
[vimeo]10537333[/vimeo] Watch the shoot out on Zacuto.com here This, the final part of Zacuto’s HDSLR versus 35mm film web series has a number of eye-openers. If you haven’t seen it already don’t read any further! I’m going to go into quite a bit of detail on what I think is the conclusion, for me anyway, of this shootout. So, spoilers ahead…
EOSHD has in the last few days been talking to Human Target and Final Destination Director of Photography Rob McLachlan about the Panasonic GH1 and HDSLR shooting. Robert McLachlan ASC,CSC is a leading cinematographer based in Vancouver. Rob shot 1st unit on Final Destination, Dragonball Evolution and Fox’s network TV show Human Target. McLachlan has also completed technically ambitious 2nd unit cinematography work on The Golden Compass and additional photography…
Canon, rather unsurprisingly you might say, are using the 5D Mark II combined with the 550D and full HD super-zoom Powershot, the SX210 to film their own TV advertising campaign. The campaign is in the format of ‘stories’ about photographers and artists, and is set throughout Europe, beginning in Italy. I don’t think it’ll be as good as the one currently airing in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan about the…
Wiki update [URL]http://wiki.eoshd.com/wiki/GH1_Custom_Firmware The HDSLR Wiki shows you how to enable 24p native recording and higher AVCHD bit-rates on the Panasonic GH1 without any fuss.
According to NikonRumors.com there are new signs today that the sleeping giant has finally recognised the demand for video in HDSLRs and will begin a push to implement and market it – properly. Until now, Nikon have had a very poor implementation of video mode on their DSLR cameras despite being first to the market with it!