Jim Jannard can breath a sigh of relief. According to a Japanese sales manager, Sony’s ‘affordable’ S35mm pro video camera will cost in the region of $50,000 – in league with the Arri Alexa. I should however emphasise that in no way is this the official, confirmed price yet.
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[vimeo]10426072[/vimeo] A departure from DSLR footage this time – a great example of some RED footage. What exactly can a RED really do in good hands?
[vimeo]17749667[/vimeo] Earlier this year EOSHD has varying degrees of success with the Canon 5D Mark II and Panasonic LA7200 anamorphic adapter – variable between unusable and not very good. I found the adapter worked best on the Panasonic GH1, where I was able to achieve an extremely wide angle with it. Typically for an anamorphic however, it still did not work well with shallow depth of field at fast apertures…
[vimeo]15543342[/vimeo] Photokina in Cologne sits beside the river Rhine and close to one of the city’s most striking features. Destroyed in the Second World War as Cologne was flattened by bombing raids, the huge steel bridge was rebuilt after the war and carries pedestrians and trains over the Rhine into Cologne’s main station, situated next to the Dom – a spectacular gothic cathedral which survived the fighting – just.
Panasonic need to copy Canon’s approach with regard regional standards and go global. Clearly this is a decision from high up and not an engineering lead one. I’ve been told by a source close to Panasonic that the final (non-prototype) PAL camera does indeed lack 25p and only has 24p. That confirms what we already suspected.
The internet is showing signs of a dramatic lack of interest in Sony DSLRs. According to data from Flickr and Google compiled exclusively by EOSHD.com, Sony’s DSLRs are becoming less popular by the hour.
Very detailed information of the AF100’s full capabilities have been presented in public by Panasonic by Jan Crittenden Livingston. Panasonic’s AF100 is a brilliantly specced machine, which has lead some people to believe that such dedicated professional video cameras mean the end of DSLR filmmaking. Panasonic themselves have now said that they believe the opposite.
I’ve made some of my Photokina GH2 prototype footage available for technical analysis. You can download the footage from Vimeo here. It’s shot in 1080/50i mode (50p on the sensor). It’s important to first note that this is prototype footage and strictly not representative of the final product. Also if you mention the footage or link to it from other places, please make this clear and credit it to EOSHD.com.