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These RAW Video Clips Will Make You Want a Canon 5D Mark III (Unless You Already Own One)
The Canon 5D Mark III has become a true cinema camera. That’s a bold statement, but some of the footage that is currently being shot with the new 14-bit RAW Magic Lantern hack is absolutely night and day when compared to 8-bit H.264 footage recorded in-camera, and there is no doubt it rivals much more expensive cameras just in sheer image quality. We’ve got some impressive samples from cinema5D, Luke Neumann, as well as a few others below. Click through for the head-exploding videos.
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What Happens When Your Movie Unexpectedly Goes Viral? Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke's 'Cargo'
The film is one of the more touching I’ve seen in a while, and it’s also a fantastic lesson in “show, don’t tell.” Without any dialogue at all, the filmmakers managed to create a moving and emotional piece that deserves the attention it has received.
It’s a phenomenon that didn’t really exist before the internet: going viral. The term has come to mean quite a few things and can be applied to all sorts of...
Why Are Female Directors Having (Relative) Success in Independent Film, but Not in Hollywood?
Filmmaking has gone through many great evolutionary events in its over 130 years of existence. It has seen technological advances: from Edison’s Kinetograph, (arguably) the first motion picture camera to the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, from exhibiting films on a Kinetoscope, to exhibiting them on smartphones. However, one change that has yet to really be made in the film world is its presence of female directors. Fandor released an infographic that breaks down the distribution of women in both independent cinema and Hollywood, and the figures may surprise you.
There’s no...
Zoom Announces H6 Audio Recorder, Modular Big Brother to the H4N and Serious Tool for Filmmakers
If you’ve been shooting video with DSLRs for the past couple of years, chances are you also own, or have at least used the Zoom H4N. It’s one of those devices that has seemingly become ubiquitous on low-budget shoots due to the fact that it’s incredibly easy to use and (relatively) affordable compared to other audio capture equipment. However, the H4N has always...
Canon 5D Mark III Firmware Clean 1080p HDMI Capture
Here’s an early look at what the highly anticipated Canon 5D Mark III firmware may have available. At NAB2013, Jeromy Young of Atomos shows the firmware sending a clean signal and new menu options and working with their Atomos Ninja-2 HDMI Recorder, but keep in mind that the final firmware could be much different. When Canon first announced that there will be a firmware upgrade, they stated it would be released in April (this month). Let’s hope they can still...
Zylight Shows off Their New F8 LED Fresnel at NAB 2013
Charlie Collias from Zylight shows us the brand new F8 LED Fresnel which was featured at their NAB 2013 booth. Available in both 3200K or 5600K color temperature versions, the Zylight F8 is extremely compact, durable and versatile....
ALL YOU NEED IS A DSLR CAMERA & A GLIDECAM
Canon 5DII & Glidecam, STILL THE COMBO!!! from [MTS]FILMS on Vimeo.
This a show reel shot by MTSFilms using only a 5D MKII and the HD4000 Pro Glidecam.
no monopod, no shoulder mount rig, no matte box, slider, no follow focus, no hoodman, no firmware hack, no external...
