Tag Archives: Video

While I demonstrated in a previous post the advantage of IS lenses compared to non-IS lenses, the new aperture control is going to make these babies even shinier. How comes? As you know, the further an object is from the camera, the more it is subject to camera shake since the total travelled distance on the sensor of a far object is bigger than the one of a close by object given the same ‘shake angle’.…

While people keep talking about the creative freedom given by the manual control over aperture, no one is talking about the shutter speed. The only time you hear people talking about it is in the context of the 24fps fiasco, wishing have a 1/48 sec shutter duration.…

Now that everyone is aware of the incoming firmware upgrade, I think it is time to talk about its impacts on the way we have been working with it so far. You might be surprised by this but there is more to this update than being able to isolate your girlfriend from the background the next time you film her on the beach… I am going to cover these changes over the next few days, one aspect at the time, starting now.…

WoW! My source for the previous rumor hinted about this but I never expected it to happen so soon! Congrats to CanonRumors for posting this first (at least before all the other blogs I subscribe to!) visit them for the details.…

Folks. I think I have been sitting on this news long enough. As you all know, one of the most frustration thing about video editing in HD is that you can never work directly with the original clips without some serious performance hit and frame skipping.…

Edit: If you are interested in the cheapest possible shoulder rig, you should check this post for a kit that goes under 200$. I talked about my rig a while ago and never had time to (1) show it to you guys (2) write a proper review of the follow focus.…

I don’t know how I missed this one but Lynda is offering a course for 5DMrkII owners on how to edit their clips with Final Cut Pro. The video only covers the basics but it is nice for someone who never touched FCP and wants to get his feet wet.…

It’s finally here! My bitching about the shipping time for my rails was totally erroneous: it was delivered in less than 2 days. The problem was with the supplier shipping my order 2 weeks after I placed it! So without any further delays, here is my first impression of my intermediate cinephotographer kit.…