Canon5Dtips Photography is more than words.
The guys at Cinema5D have had some fun recently. They received a bunch of rigs from various suppliers and tested them from a HDSLR user perspective. We have done this in the past, but their work is at a total different level of scale!…
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Announcement: The Canon5dTips Market is open !
It is with great pleasure that we introduce our new sister site: the Canon5dTips Market!
What is it?
It is a place for you, the users, to publish ads for gear you want to sell and for prospective buyer to find gear at great price.… Read More »The Story behing the Still: Contest is open!
The contest is now open. You can read the rules here. The prizes are quite good: the choice between a 5DMrkII and a 7D, a lens (selected from a long list), a few days to shoot with Vincent and a year subscription at Vimeo.…
Read More »Amazon CF UDMA card deals
In case you are in needs of more memory card (who is not!), Amazon is selling some fast & big CF cards today in their ‘End of Year deal’ section. The best deals are with the Lexar Pro UDMA 16 GB 300x CF card or the Sandisk 8GB Extreme CF UDMA.…
Read More »More 1DMrkIV news: Behind the scene of Nocturne shooting
Vincent Laforet updated his blog with some interesting content last night. First, he republished the Nocturne film on various video hosting platform and added a behind the scene video (available only on his site). Wish it was longer. Finally, he teases us with a upcoming announcement of another film contest.…
Read More »Picture Style explained
I have talked about using picture style in the past but I think this video explains the whole thing much better than I ever could. If you visit the Vimeo page, you will see a list of presets to download for both 5D and 7D.…
Read More »DIY Igus slider part II: add a robot
This project might not be for everyone but if you are like me and have trouble keeping the sliding motion at a constant speed, here is a solution: automate it! Martin Koch had the same issue has me and solved it the geek way: by using an Arduino and a stepping motor.The detailed explanation can be found on his blog.…
Read More »Canon 1DMarkIV features confirmation
DSLR News Shooter has had the opportunity to play with the 1DMrkIV and wrote a hands on review of it. Interesting points: they confirmed it can record at all the 7D frame rate plus 25p. Some people are going to be happy!…
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