Once upon a time – from the Bronze age onwards, humans used little known exotic materials like metal and leather to make tools.
Month: December 2010
[vimeo]17542556[/vimeo] Pixel peeping is such a fallacy, because close inspection of footage on a computer does DSLRs such an injustice. It is not how video is meant to be viewed.
Those Hong Kong manufacturers have impeccable timing. Just as Panasonic seizes the DSLR video crown from Canon – out comes the best adapter for Canon lenses on the GH2 yet seen. For the first time this one allows you to control the aperture and it costs $125.
[vimeo]17497347[/vimeo] If you play the video as-is here, streaming from Vimeo you will see very little difference because huge amount of noise is smeared away by Vimeo’s compression. Please download the video. EOSHD Recommended – Purchase Neat Video Along with peace on earth, the most sought after achievement for DSLR consumers is clean ISO 3200. If you put all the threads written about ISO noise on internet forums together…
[vimeo]17464042[/vimeo] Above – Panasonic GH2 is ahead but for how long? High ISO test by Filippo Chiesa Nikon and Panasonic have inched past Canon in the image quality battle in 2010 with two great updates.
View the DitoGear OmniSlider and get a sneak preview of special future products here Sliders have been very popular with DSLR shooters so far (think Philip Bloom’s pocket dolly!). They’re fun to use and allow shots and creative techniques which would be impossible without one.
[vimeo]17414803[/vimeo] Further reading: Photography side of the GH2 (vs 60D), Part 1 at DigitalRev Part 1 here First impressions here I shot this footage with the GH2 at the weekend which will give you an idea of what proper resolved 1080p looks like on a DSLR for the first time. I’ve used affordable Contax Zeiss 85mm F1.4, Olympus 9-18mm for the really wide shots, and Contax Zeiss 50mm F1.7. Nothing…
The Magic Lantern 5D Mark II hack has been quiet for a while now but added some useful things like manual audio control.