Wow, the House (great show, BTW) season finale was shot entirely on a Canon 5D Mark II. You think that the HD video quality of dSLRs is challenging pro video and film gear yet?
Nobody is going to share the murky photos from the DSi’s integrated camera, so why not hack a classic DS to become a controller for a dSLR?
Being a lomo user, photographer Hunter Richards‘s Canon 5D Mark II hack has totally made my week. Using a Russian lomo lens from the ’80s with an adaptor, he managed to create a beautifully shot lomo film worthy of your attention.
Dabe Alan got a vintage gadget tattoo of his own, but he shot the process in time lapse with a very modern Canon 5d Mark II before editing this video in Final Cut Pro. Ouchies. [Flickr]
Everybody complaining in the 1D Mark IV comment thread that there won’t be any more video firmware updates for the 5D Mark II is kinda wrong: Canon is enabling the 24fps and 25fps 1080p video recording that’s found on the 7D and 1D Mark IV, bringing it about up to par. Update’s due sometime next year, though no firmware switcheroo’s gonna deliver the 1DMkIV’s low-light sensitivity. [Planet 5D via Canon Rumors]
Magazines are going down the crapper as a medium, but the crew at Alexx Henry photography envisions a world where OLED and eInk screens put motion into mags and makes them cutting-edge.
Microsoft is set to bombard us all with Windows 7 ads around the October 22nd launch—and director Marty Martin’s concept spots are setting the bar high.