While Vimeo, YouTube and SmugSmug are great to store and distribute your clips, your control over the way they are presented is minimal. An easy and cheap solution is to use a blog engine, such as WordPress, to create a blog with free wordpress themes and then publish your clips there.…

So you want to create a miniature effect like this : Without having to buy one of these: TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II TS-E 45mm f/2.8 TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Easy! just download the (free for this week!) ShrinkRay plugin from Crumple Pop.…

This one might be obvious to many but it just saved me about 100$ so I thought it would be a good idea to share my experience. Two weeks ago, my 50mm f1.4 broke, the camera LCD displayed the dreaded ERR 1 message.…

This is the second post in the part 2 review of the Zacuto Gorilla rigs. You can look at the review of the Rapid Fire here.

Meet the Quick Draw

Guys, if you dont know the creative gang from Still+Motion, you have to look at the awesome stuff they are doing. They are the vangards of wedding movies and the way they always push the limits of creativity and gear is a real inspiration for me (and probably a lot of other people too).…

In this second part of the review, we are going to look at what are the differences between the various rigs, how they affect their uses and what are their strong points. To save you from reading a long posts, I have spread this part in three articles.…

I usually don’t cover software updates, but the latest version of Magic lantern is awesome! Here is the executive summary: Custom cropmarks bitmap file Live histogram while recording Time remaining estimate indicator Automated Focus pulls Focus stacking HDR exposure bracketing Lens data (hyperfocal distance, DOF, etc) Cleaner, multi-level menus that timeout automatically Audio monitoring can be turned off during clip review Internal mic can be used (must enable audio.mic-power=1 in config) Output audio volume control Configuration file can be saved to magiclantern.cfg Yes, you read it right: Automated Focus pulls!…

This post is not specifically related the the Canon 5dMRkII. I wrote it as a complement to a blog post on the DPS about urban exploration. This is a collection of all the tips/tricks I have learned during my various explorations.…