How do you shoot a music video on a roller coaster? If you’ve got the budget, you could rent the ride for $US6000 per day — double director Jeremy Johnstone’s budget for the entire video shoot.
This footage, shot with a Nikon D90 and Canon 5D, was taken at the oldest motor factory in the world. Founded in 1864, it saw the likes of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach walk its halls.
In a quest to document daily life in the notoriously secretive North Korea, Steve Gong managed to capture video footage inside the country without anyone noticing. How’d he do it? Well, North Koreans don’t know the Canon 5D records video.
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/DrFQnkiMU-g&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":400,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); Hopefully this lovely Canon EOS 5D Mark II was really broken beyond repair before its owner decided to use it as a fire-breathing practice target.
If the Canon EOS 5D Mark II was good enough to film the entire season finale of House on, there it should be more than adequate to use as a Skype webcam. But how?
This time lapse video out of Japan (Mount Fuju, Iwate Prefecture, et al) enhances my calm while upholding my personal belief that HD video on DSLRs is one of the best things to happen to cameras in recent history.
