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A quick basic introduction to filmmaking with DSLR cameras

We tend to forget that there are still many beginners coming into using video with a DSLR, we tend to cover things that are for the advanced filmmaker, but we also realize for those people just starting out you need help too - so when Travis pointed me to this basic introduction over on vimeo, I thought it was a great topic for a post. It was created for the Canon Rebel T2i/550D (reviews), but [...]

Monkey uses a Canon EOS 5D Mark II for some self portraits

In the ‘I’d love to see the whole set’ department we report on this interesting story of a crested black macaque (a type of monkey) that borrowed a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) for a while to take some self-portraits as well as other photos of it’s friends. Maybe we’ve stumbled on a new technique to learn about these creatures? Let them borrow other HDSLRs and [...]

"Is War a Game?" - a short video made by 16 year old Michael Rees

Do you have to shoot video in landscape? No!

Most of us moving to HDSLRs have done it - we've shot video with the camera in a vertical orientation instead of horizontal - we're used to doing it when shooting stills. But it turns out not to be such a bad thing! In fact, you may just be joining a new trend. This new trend has been nicknamed "TallScreen" and there's even a group on vimeo promoting this 'mistake'. If you use the traditional [...]

Add GPS locations to your photos

I have a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and as expensive as it is, it doesn't have a GPS unit to geotag my photos (that means it can't put the exact location the photo was taken inside the EXIF data of the image). Heck, my iPhone can do it, but not my very expensive DSLR? Yikes! Well, I've found a very inexpensive way to use my iPhone to do the GPS encoding for me - with an iPhone [...]

Indie movie shot on HDSLR sold to Paramount for $4 million

Over the weekend, Paramount Pictures purchased an independent movie called "Like Crazy" for $4 million dollars. Not such big news by itself, but the significance is that this movie was shot on a Canon HDSLR - specifically the Canon EOS 7D. Now that's big news! The news came to me thru a friend at Hollywood-DI - a company that provides screening and digital finishing services [...]

First Red Scarlet seen in the wild

There has been a lot of interest in the Red Scarlet (now seemingly renamed to the EPIC Light) and just a few hours ago, the first public viewing has been posted!   From the video description: This is the very first public footage of a working Red Scarlet Fixed Lens camera. I'm currently at Red Studios helping with the Santa Fe 3d Workshop with Geoff Boyle. Just as I am sitting [...]

Three Incredible Timelapses — Inspiring You to Get Out and Shoot

Timelapses can be amazing when done properly — and though I don't know how to do them very well (yet), I do know how to recognize them when I see them — and I'm here to share three recent incredibly beautiful examples. And, in case you're interested in learning about how to do timelapses like these, I highly recommend the site timescapes.org — a site that [...]