Pre-NAB 2011: Canon announced a firmware upgrade for the 1Ds Mark III today unlocking a hidden HDSLR video capture feature. Firmware v1.3 enables HDSLR video shooting in 1080P at frame rates of 25P and 24P, and in 720P at frame rates of up to 60P and 50P.
The firmware utilizes a new algorithm [...]
Gourmet food trucks are all rage in New York City and this past December Middlebury Magazine asked me to pay a visit to recent graduate David Belanich. David and his partners founded Joyride Trucks, rehabbing a former FedEx delivery van to bring frozen yogurt and Stumptown coffee to the streets of [...]
This happened on a shoot late last year, thought I’d pass it along. There are probably others like me who own both Profoto AcuteB and Acute2 packs and heads. Great kits, you can use all of the same modifiers, but despite having the same cable-to-pack connectors you cannot interchange the heads.
The AcuteB [...]
Back in September I published a blog post looking at HDSLR resources. One of the links in that post was to Abel Cinetech’s Field of View Comparator, a great tool for a getting a sense of the lenses needed to match the field of view for various HD capture formats (Super [...]
If I have one image quality issue with Aperture it’s that it’s sometimes too sharp. Which is kind of ironic if you have ridden the digital wave as I have going back to the Nikon D1 and D1x. Those camera’s raws were never too sharp. Cut to 2010/2011 and a Canon 1Ds Mark III’s raw [...]
On a shoot this past Monday, grey seamless, corporate portraits. I have done five or six of these sessions for a specific client and I keep notes to match the lighting. This go round we were in a new space with a lot more room and higher ceilings. Despite that I could not get the [...]
All in the past week on Canon’s USA site:
EOS Utility, v2.9.0
Digital Photo Professional (DPP), v3.9.2
EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro, v1.1 (Mac & FCP users only)
Notes:
-EOS Utility is needed for tethering. Update adds the option to get rid of the quick previews which appear in addition to the preview [...]
Adobe had a deal, upgrade to CS5 by November 30th via their online store and get $50 off (25%.) I took the bait and just before midnight on Tuesday downloaded my copy.
I had been in no rush to upgrade from CS4 to CS5. On the one hand Adobe had dropped the ball with the [...]
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