Canon5Dtips Photography is more than words.
Unless you are very lucky, you have probably noticed that not all your lenses focus perfectly every time. Some might focus a little bit in front of the subject, others a bit behind it. These issues appear mostly when using a long and wide aperture lens such as the 50mm 1.8 (or 1.4) where the depth of field is less than 1cm.…
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Looking for batteries and popularity of the Canon 5D MarkII
I don’t know how things are going for you guys but I have been hunting for 5D Mark II batteries for a while. A little bit frustrated, I went to one of the big camera store in Montreal and decided to have a talk with one of the rep to understand what was going on.…
Read More »NSFW: Montreal Mode and Design Festival: Lingerie show
Sorry for this NSFW (Not Safe For Work) post, but I think it is worth it! Last night, I was at the final event of the Montreal Design and Fashion week in Montreal. Of course, I totally forgot about the event until it was too late to secure a press pass so I had to shoot from the crowd.…
Read More »The effects of shutter speed control
Before the release of the firmware update, I wrote an article about why controlling the shutter speed would be as important for us, cinephotographers, as controlling the aperture. I promised to show an example video at the time. Well, it took some time but I finally managed to get the required clips!…
Read More »Zacuto Rapid Fire review
Here it is guys, my review of the Zacuto Rapid Fire! I still have not used with it enough to feel like I have toped out but I have played enough to give it a fair critic. An updated version will come out once I get my Zfinder.…
Read More »List of all 5D Mark II Vimeo groups I could find…
To save you some time, I compiled a list of all the Vimeo groups related to the 5D Mark II that I could find. As much as I like Vimeo, I wish it was impossible to post videos to more than one group.…
Read More »Site update, Received my Zacuto Rapid Fire & More
I am going to update WordPress to 2.8 in a few moment. So if the site behave strangely, please drop me a line. Technically everything should go smooth but you never know. True to my word, I ordered a Zacuto Rapid fire a few days ago and received it moments ago.…
Read More »New DFocus Follow Focus
In case you were thinking about buying a DFocus follow focus for your 5DMrkII, you might want to wait a few more days. I am not saying this because of any quality issue with the product (you all know that I love it) but because of a teaser picture Dave posted on Twitter.…
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