You round up the usual suspects on almost any video board which include HD vs 4K, 2K vs 4K, the AVCHD codec, which apparently isn’t good for anything, and a dozen other topics that overlook the one thing that can spike any […]
One of the big ironies in the video business is that Canon started the trend of convergence – adding video features to still cameras and then all but abandoned the market they started. The introduction of the Canon 5D MKII hit the […]
If you’ve had an idea in the back of your mind for a documentary or short film, then now may be the best time to think about making your cinematic fantasy a reality. Thanks to Sony and Rokinon, you can now get a totally decent HD camera and a set of prime cine lenses for […]
by Chris Poindexter With the introduction of the GH4 Panasonic managed to both one-up Canon in the DSLR video market and made a step toward righting some wrongs that caused many people to dismiss Panasonic cameras for low-budget video projects. The GH4 is definitely geared toward video shooters. The GH4 shoots both DCI 4K 4096×2160 […]
Canon swept the early HD video market with the Canon 5D MKII but the original release was crippled by being limited to 30 fps on the frame rate. Magic Lantern came to Canon’s rescue with a firmware hack that allowed the user […]
By the time Planet5D and Cinema5D consolidated operations it was already readily apparent that the video world had started moving back to dedicated video cameras and fewer video professionals were choosing DSLRs as their primary video camera. Give Canon credit for launching the DSLR revolution by adding 1080 video to the original Canon 5D MK […]
Our resident video sage, Bill Pryor, muses on Canon’s position in the high end video market and how Sony stepped in to take a bite of the DSLR video business. Read the entire post here. Before the Canon-inspired DSLR revolution, $15K for […]
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