THE RUMOR MILL 2: THE WRATH OF CANON…

So, for everyone who wet their pants with the last post, don’t get too excited yet… Upon further research of the “leaked” specs, I’ve found a couple discrepancies that might make all us filmmakers out there reconsider the 7D afterall…

It is true that the new 7D will have Dual DIVIC IV processors, and for anyone who didn’t read the last post, that more than likely means SLOW MOTION! Or a least variable frame rates for video, which believe me, is worthy enough for pants wetting…

However, if you look closely at the picture to the LEFT, you will see it says the 7D will have a FULL FRAME CMOS SENSOR. Now if that’s true, we will all promptly pull our F-ing hair out and shoot ourselves for pre-maturely buying a 5D Mark II without doing our research…

The real story is; none of the sources I’ve been investigating can confirm that… In fact, most of them are saying the 7D will be a CROP SENSOR camera. If that’s the case, we can all write off the 7D now and continue on our way…

FULL FRAME OR CROP FRAME? Learn more here!

THE RUMOR MILL: CANON 7D - MAGICAL NEW FEATURE?

Let’s talk about specs baby… There’s a rumor going around that on September 1st/2nd, we’ll be hearing about a new super sexy Canon DSLR…

I got the specs you’ve been sweating over, and I’ve translated them into regular everyday language for people (…like me) who read “new Autofocus” and immediately think Greg Kinnear is making a Zombie Movie about Bob Crane.

Also… there’s a new magical feature I’m sure you will find utterly mindblowing…

Check the SPECS here… and enter a world of new possibilities

FINALLY! A PANAVISION LENS FOR THE 5D MARK II

Well known cinematographer Rodney Charters has recently posted pictures and video for a promo shoot, unrelated apparently, to his usual gig, FOX TV series “24.” Himself and David Dadson from Panavision loaded up a Canon 5D Mark II with one massive Primo 11 to 1 Panavision zoom lens and took it for a spin.

They quickly noticed the PV to EOS mount they were using and the shear size of the lens was creating a “vignette” look the two of them were not expecting. With a little trial and error, they fixed the problem with 1.4 adapter that evened out the look.

Rodney did the honors of posting a TwitVid for our viewing pleasure. Too bad they didn’t actually shoot anything of significance… Watch it HERE

WHICH DSLR TO CHOOSE?

So if you are anything like me, it’s hard to keep up with slew of DSLRs that seem to be appearing every few months or so. I’ve decided to put together a list of the available DSLRs and their various price tags (again, if you are anything like me, price tag makes a big difference!). Having checked out a lot of the cameras out there, quality makes a big difference too, so I’ve organized them by HD quality for ease of eyes.

FULL HD (1920 x 1080)
Canon 5D Mark II - $2700 (body only)
Canon Rebel T1i - $900 (with 18-55mm IS lens)
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 - $1500 (with 14-140mm lens)
Nikon D400 - $? (releasing later this year)
Nikon D750 - $? (releasing later this year)

HD (1280 x 720)
Nikon D90 - $900 (body only)
Nikon D300s - $1800 (body only)
Nikon D5000 - $740 (body only)
Olympus E-P1 - $800 (with 14-42mm lens)
Pentax K7D - $? (releasing later this year)

Also, the next big rumor is that Canon will be releasing a new 1D DSLR that will fix the whole 24p issue that everyone has had with the 5D. Biggest downside? The cool $4000 price tag…

CANON 5D MKII REMOTE FOR IPHONE/IPOD TOUCH

For everyone who has been looking for a way to manually control the functions on your Canon 5D remotely, look no further! The company onOne Software has developed an iPhone/iPod Touch app that lets you do it all.

-You can remotely fire off shots from your iPhone.
-You can remotely control the camera settings like shutter-speed, aperture, white-balance and more.
-You can view images saved on the camera from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
-You can even look through your camera’s viewfinder remotely!

Below I have included a video that explains the functions better than I ever could. Check it out!

4TH OF JULY 5×5

So over fourth of July we captured a ton of footage on the Canon 5d with our awesome Redrock Mount. Check out the footage.

MSITOIRTAP - 5×5 (5d Mark II) from John de Menil on Vimeo.

HAPPY FIRMWARE UPDATE DAY!

Today is like Christmas in June. Finally Canon listened to our demands for a firmware update with manual controls for shooting video.

Since we already had figured out how to work around apertures and ISOs, we were most curious about the shutter speeds.

We wanted to shoot something quick and fun this afternoon with the fastest shutterspeed 1/4000th of a frame. We shot it at 2pm and uploaded it at 5pm. Here’s our results.

WORKOUT - 5D Mark 2 Firmware Update Test from Andrew Disney on Vimeo.

Once we got the firmware update from HERE We went to ProLost and found this graphic.