This post is the first of 3 describing and linking to gear used by cinemaphotographer to make their videos. In this first post, we are going to review the gear available to beginners aka low budget movie makers. The second article will review the gear available to enthusiast while the last one will target those with professional goals.

In case you missed it, Vimeo Plus is now available for everyone, not just United Statians! Rejoice! Also, they changed the plan to be: 5GB of upload space per week (10x what you get with the free account) 5000 free HD embed plays with purchase (up from 1000) The ability to control which domains can embed in HD 25fps/PAL support for HD (up from 24fps) Make your videos private on Vimeo.com while still able to embed them on your site One-button upgrading of your existing videos to the latest high-quality format without using additional upload space Of course some will complain that YouTube offers free HD hosting.…

B&H currently has a promotion which allows you to get a free 2gig CF card. Well, after the mail in rebate (30$). I know, 2gig is not much and its probably why they are giving it away…  Anyways, I would order one if I was in the US, you can never have enough memory card!…

Ed McNichol made a very nice tutorial on how to setup Compressor to convert your ProRes file so they could be uploaded to Vimeo in the “best” possible format. The process is very straight forward and should produce good result for 99% of the situations.…

A quick test of how much a lens with IS can improve the image quality when filming with the 5DMrkII

Bruce as released 3 video a week ago about his line of product for Canon 5DMrkII camera handle: the U-Boat Commander. Watch his video as he keep adding more pieces to the handle system. This is somewhat an alternative to the Zacuto systems that we have presented previously.…

While browsing the clips on dslrflix I found this story of a kid who wants to box. The story is compelling and there are some very well edited sequences (when it switches the view from the father to the kid when talking about is health issues). …

If you havent seen it yet, go take a look at www.dslrflix.com. It is a blog/content site dedicated to cinephotography (I think they made up that word). Contrary to the Canon5DMrkII Vimeo group which is spammed by people showing their “test” footage, DSLRFlix only display high quality content.…