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Above snap taken with SLRMagic E-mount 28mm with SLRMagic macro extension tube on Sony NEX. Click here to buy the lens on eBay. Full review soon! Premiere Pro CS5 aside, support for AVCHD has been poor to date on PCs and Macs. Are you tired of having to wait for media to transcode in Final Cut Pro? Can’t edit HX9v 1080/60p in Final Cut Pro X? Having trouble previewing AVCHD…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpA6TC0T_Lw[/youtube] Here’s our first glimpse of Red Tails in action, the Lucasfilm picture that Philip Bloom was a camera operator on with the Canon 7D and 5DMkII. According to Philip Bloom on Twitter there are at least 5 shots in the trailer from a DSLR, and you just can’t really tell them apart from the Sony F35 CineAlta A-cam shots. Check out more BTS and photos here and download the HD…

1. AVCHD 42Mbit ISO 3200 2. MJPEG LPowell Low Light Patch Disclaimer: things change fast in the hack world. What may be true today may not be true tomorrow. Always check the latest developments. Ever since the GH1 was hacked, countless people have been shooting MJPEG when they’d get better results with AVCHD. It is really a shame to see all these projects shot in 720/30p with moire and noise,…

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22111423[/vimeo] For Lovers Only is a French New Wave inspired no-budget film shot on the 5D Mark II by The Polish Brothers and it sells for $14.99 on iTunes. A beautiful black & white portrayal of a couple as they fall deeper in love. It has zero marketing budget, zero distribution budget and a crew of three, two of whom are the stars.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/26611738[/vimeo] The GH2 is already a lot of bang for the buck. This hack has made it a bonafide plastic explosive! In the latest hack released today Vitaliy has enabled high bitrate AVCHD in 1080/24p cinema mode for the first time. These represent the first image quality improvements for the hacked GH2. What does it look like? Watch the video above to find out.

Above: EOSHD’s hacked GH2 with Zacuto EVF Flip and Iscorama!! Codecs are currently the biggest weakness of DSLR video but that is about to change, and no – not with an external record but inside the camera. The hacker Vitaliy Kiselev says he has had ‘a break-through’ – raising the AVCHD bitrate of the hacked GH2 to an average of 42Mbit – almost double the original Panasonic specification and higher…

This is the first in a new series of articles dispelling current ‘trends, myths and sacred cows’ in digital video. Currently it’s trendy to tune cameras for more dynamic range. We have CineStyle for DSLRs, HDRx for RED and S-Log for the Sony F3… the list goes on. I feel the technique has overtaken the artist, the gimmick has triumphed over substance and we are operating in a world of…

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/26115801[/vimeo] Learn all about anamorphic shooting – the EOSHD book is now on eBay for just $19.99 The new GH2 hack is in its very early stages but has a helluva cool feature for anamorphic shooting. I thought I’d try it out. One of Vitaliy’s initial patches puts MJPEG video into a 4:3 aspect ratio, the same as 35mm film. I can then use a 2x anamorphic lens to convert…