The digital film look on a budget – 10 years after the Arri Alexa, what gets closest for cheapest?

Hard to believe it, but EOSHD is nearly 10 years old!

2010 was a big year for digital cinema. The 5D Mark II was in full stride kickstarting DSLR filmmaking. Arri’s first proper digital film camera the Alexa was released and revolutionised filmmaking at the highest levels. Now all these years later I’m still looking – not for the sharpest, highest K, most featured packed modern camera but for a camera costing less than $1000 which has the most Alexa-like image.

Not on a technical level, of course, but in terms of the feel of the images and how cinematic the end-results are when viewed on the big screen.

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Magic Lantern Raw Video – Current camera capabilities, updated for 2017

There are 3 performance classes of Canon camera for raw video. Which should you use and what image quality can you expect?

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Latest Magic Lantern with HDR Video out now for Canon 60D, 600D, 550D, 50D and 500D

To download and donate go to Magic Lantern here

Please consider donating to the project – in return you will get the preview version of the 5D Mark II firmware tested here on EOSHD – and a ready to run HDR Video workflow!!

So 22nd December is here and so is the HDR Video mode and variable frame rates for the Canon 600D and siblings. The new version of Magic Lantern even supports the 50D!

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