For the price and full spec visit DitoGear here DitoGear are a relatively new arrival on the DSLR scene yet a creative and exciting one. They’ve begun to make something of a name for their sliders and I’ve taken some notice. Here I try their cutting edge slider for the first time.
Month: January 2011
Above: GH2 with LA7200 anamorphic and Small HD DP6 Check out the full spec and price at Small HD EOSHD recently received a demo unit DP6 from Small HD and I am excited. Why? I am finally free from ever having to enter manual focus assist mode again and squint at a tiny LCD. I am also free from the world of viewfinders, which are great for looking at the…
[vimeo]19331547[/vimeo] This rig from HalfInchRails is a refreshing no-bullshit approach to DSLR rigging. Rigs are essential for handheld footage (OIS is floaty and raw handheld DSLR shooting is jittery and amateurish) but sometimes they really do make things much more expensive and awkward than they should be.
Converge are doing great justice to the DSLR community, they *get* it. Their last festival was a massive success and their next one begins on the 1st March at a very plush home, the British Film Institute on London’s South Bank.
It’s something I hear a lot of, that the AF100 is not as cinematic as the 5D. I think that’s putting it a wrong way, of course it’s cinematic in the right hands with the right optics – and cinematic is such a broad term. But there is something to be said for the feel of each camera, and they are very different beasts.
Buy it now I’ve been shooting in Berlin this winter with my LOMO anamorphic cinemascope lens. This is a Russian anamorphic used by Andrei Tarkovsky, who shot Solaris amongst many others with it on Konvas 35mm film cameras.
Above: Nikon D7000 mainboard Nikon’s director of lab research in Japan has just conducted a very candid interview with Focus Numerique where we learn many inside facts. Now that is a good interview candidate!
I just spoke to a source at Panasonic and touched on the possibility of the GH2 hack, and why Panasonic wanted to make it hard for Vitaliy Kiselev to improve functionality on the camera, for free and unpaid.