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Sports Illustrated’s Bill Frakes Nikon Video Workshops in LA and Dallas

Sports Illustrated’s Bill Frakes Nikon Video Workshops in LA and Dallas

Sorry for the late notice, but we just found out that Sports Illustrated shooter, Aperture-user and MacCreate friend Bill Frakes will be doing two upcoming seminars on Nikon D-Movie and Multimedia. The classes are free and you can register for Los Angeles (August 24th) here and for Dallas, TX (August 27th) here. The classes are filling ... read more

August 23, 2010 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Nikon Unveils D3100—1080P Video in 14.2 MP Body

Nikon Unveils D3100—1080P Video in 14.2 MP Body

Nikon has officially announced the D3100, and update to the D3000 camera design that adds full HD video and numerous other advancements to the already popular D3000. Recently we had a chance to sit down with Nikon to look at the D3100 and it’s an impressive little camera. The new EXPEED 2 image processing engine should ... read more

August 19, 2010 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Canon Expands CPS Program To Cover Professional Videographers

Canon Expands CPS Program To Cover Professional Videographers

For years, people in the digital photography community have been saying “Video is the next big thing”. With the increase of HD Video capabilities to new D-SLRs in the last couple years this prophecy seems to be true. Canon’s announcement that it is expanding the CPS program to include professional videographers, cinematographers and film makers ... read more

April 10, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Rocky Nook Releases New Book – Mastering HD Video with Your DSLR

Rocky Nook Releases New Book – Mastering HD Video with Your DSLR

Press Release ————————————– Mastering HD Video with Your DSLR—New from Rocky NookSanta Barbara, CA—Many of the newest DSLRs include HD video capability, and while the interest from the photography community was initially cool, we have seen a recent shift. Photographers are beginning to explore the video capabilities of their cameras and are eager to learn the art ... read more

March 31, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Canon Pulls Back 5D Mark II Firmware Update – Bug Found In Audio Functionality

Canon Pulls Back 5D Mark II Firmware Update – Bug Found In Audio Functionality

Canon announced today that it has removed its much hyped 2.0.3 firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II from its website. It seems that there is a bug in the custom audio settings that can prevent the camera from recording audio. Canon is working on a fix for the problem and in the meantime ... read more

March 18, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Update Available

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Update Available

Do you have a Canon 5D Mark II? Do you shoot video with it? Have you been waiting patiently for the firmware update to come to give you real professional-style 24p and 29.97p settings at 30p? If so, then today is your lucky day because Canon Firmware 2.0.3 is here. Grab it now from Canon’s website. ... read more

March 15, 2010 in News by David Schloss 0 comments

Canon Announces That It Will Be Announcing New Firmware For 5D Mark II Later This Month

Canon Announces That It Will Be Announcing New Firmware For 5D Mark II Later This Month

Canon is continuing to follow a pattern we’ve noticed over the last several months of announcing the date to announce new firmware updates to their existing cameras. Today’s announcement, announcement is for a pending major upgrade to the video features of the EOS 5D Mark II camera including a new 24fps 1920×1080 HD Video (24p). The ... read more

March 2, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Cycling Through The Eyes of Digital SLRs

Cycling Through The Eyes of Digital SLRs

One of the nicest examples of dSLR videography we’ve ever seen, these done with a  Canon 5d Mark II. This “push-pull” cycling video is entirely shot digitally and it’s just beautiful. If they could just remove the limitation on recording times on digital SLR cameras, the world would be so much better for those of ... read more

February 20, 2010 in Technique by David Schloss 0 comments

Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200 Flash – Watch Hands On Video Review

Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200 Flash – Watch Hands On Video Review

Well it’s that time of the year again, monsoon rains in California, massive snow storms on the East coast, rain/sleet/snow at the Olympics, a lousy time to be outdoors, but a great time to take photos. However, in order to take those great photos, you’ll need to properly protect your camera gear. In this hands on ... read more

February 16, 2010 in Reviews by John Omvik 1 comment

Canon Rebel t2i – The World’s Best Consumer Camcorder?

Canon Rebel t2i – The World’s Best Consumer Camcorder?

Canon announced their newest consumer camera today, the EOS Rebel T2i (aka the Rebel 550D in Europe), which is notable for the amount of space the Canon press release dedicates to talking about its video qualities. In fact, it takes a while to find all the still camera information in the press release (below). And ... read more

February 8, 2010 in News by David Schloss 0 comments