Recently Canon have shown that manual control is very important even if they do release the same camera 3 times in 12 months. Also recently, Sony have shown that they do not think any kind of manual control is important for the budding filmmaker.
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Luminous Landscape, who are predominantly a stills photography website have always struck me as knowing their stuff to a remarkable degree when it comes to video, with a hybrid photographer / videographer approach. So when Sony invited them out to Yellowstone Park to test the VG10, what they disclosed is incredibly detailed, and offers a new insight into what the first large sensor consumer camcorder is really like, even though…
[vimeo]13984616[/vimeo] I’ve recently been doing some web design work for a small British online cosmetic retailer called Unique Luxe In order to better market themselves and to boost sales through their own branded website, rather than just via the very price sensitive eBay and Amazon Market Place, I’ve recommended that they concentrate on putting content on the website and creating videos for sharing sites to drive traffic.
[vimeo]13123238[/vimeo] Here is a gem of a ‘mood piece’ from EOSHD.com forum member Adam Gichie graded in Magic Bullet looks and shot in England. This is some of the most nicely graded footage I have seen for some time and a big part of it is Adam’s custom in-camera picture profile for the 7D.
[vimeo]13344064[/vimeo] You can download the 1920×1080 video on this page, it is over 1GB so grab it quick before it hits Vimeo’s limits Shot in Bali. All present and correct apart from 24p isn’t it? Do Sony think cinema is dead? Arghhh… The good news however is that to my eye there is a complete lack of the same kind of moire and aliasing which plagues the Sony NEX 5,…
I have been experimenting with a different camera lately, the Samsung NX10. This is South Korea’s effort against the Japanese monopoly of Canon, Nikon, Sony and Panasonic. Samsung have always been viewed as the underdog but now I think they are more of a dark horse.
I was lucky a few months ago to find a rare Isco Centavision lens, which is a high quality 2x wide anamorphic lens. It has it’s own focus ring and it gives quite a Cinemascope-a-like 3:1 aspect ratio on the GH1 with it’s quirky native 16:9 sensor.
[vimeo]12150129[/vimeo] Fullscreen it (button is working properly now) and good speakers / headphones recommended – as ever sound track is as part of this as the visuals!