Canon5Dtips Photography is more than words.
As people are receiving their Z-Finder, reviews are popping everywhere on the net. The first one coming (that I am aware of) from M. Bloom and now there is one more from Mitch. As you could have guessed if you have been following my Gorilla rigs review, I am going to review it too.…
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7D Announced!
Seems like I was wront again or the Canon crew really like to contradict me! Yesterday Canon announced the 7D. Is it better than the 5dMRKII? Well, it does have what everyone missed from the 5d Mark II: variable frame rate (23.976, 24, 29.97, 30, 50 and 59.94), higher burst rate (8fps) and, most important for all for photographer: a better AF system and 100% viewfinder.…
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D-Focus follow focus improvements
As you all know from my previous reviews, I am a big fan of the D-focus follow focus system. It is priced cheap enough to make even Indian stuff seem expensive while doing a decent job. While following Dave on Twitter I noticed his tweet about every new D-Focus coming in black with an accessory port to plug a crank or whip.…
Read More »Canon 5D Mark II Audio Exposed: Video Review
Jon Fairhurst made an excellent review of various audio devices you can use with the 5D MrkII. While the video are a few weeks old, I just discovered them (shame on me). Fortunately, the timing is perfect since I am looking at a complementary audio solution to my Sennheiser MKE 400 which I plug directly in the 5DMrkII.…
Read More »Tips: buy camera gear with your credit card
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.…
Read More »Zacuto Gorilla DSLR kits reviews (part 2.2: Quick draw)
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
The first time I saw the Quick draw in the Zacuto promo video, the thing that came to my mind was “WTF?”.… Read More »Zacuto Gorilla DSLR kits reviews (part 2.1: Rapid Fire)
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.…
Read More »Pocket Wizard follow up
Quick update: the Pocket Wizard FlexTT5 have been replaced with Pocket Wizard PLUS II and I could not be happier. I kept the MiniTT1 to mount on the camera since it is much smaller than the Plus II and this combo works perfectly.…
