News&Rumors

The DroboPro and you (and me)

If any of you are following Scott Bourne you are probably aware of his love affair with the Drobos. He has so many of these that I think he is secretly aiming to be in the Guinness book of record for the person with the most Drobos.…

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Canon new Rebel does HD!

Canon announced a new Rebel yesterday. Capable of shooting in HD (720p), it is a serious alternative to the 5D. It is not 1080p but lets be honest, 720p is excellent, I resample everything to this size or smaller anyways so this isn’t a problem for msot people.…

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iPhone and your 5D Mark II

Stu at Prolost was faster than me to react to the possibilities offered by the upcoming iPhone OS. While his ideas are not really possible because of their CPU requirements, mine is more realistic: basically, I would like to be able to do remote shooting, with live preview, via my iPhone.…

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Should you get a manual focusing lens?

You must have noticed by now that a lot of cinephotographers are using old Nikon or Zeiss lenses with their 5DMrkII. These lenses allow their owner to set the aperture directly on the lens, removing one of the variable of the automatic exposure control in video mode.…

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Vimeo Plus for everyone!

In case you missed it, Vimeo Plus is now available for everyone, not just United Statians! Rejoice! Also, they changed the plan to be: 5GB of upload space per week (10x what you get with the free account) 5000 free HD embed plays with purchase (up from 1000) The ability to control which domains can embed in HD 25fps/PAL support for HD (up from 24fps) Make your videos private on Vimeo.com while still able to embed them on your site One-button upgrading of your existing videos to the latest high-quality format without using additional upload space Of course some will complain that YouTube offers free HD hosting.…

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