Using separate audio recorder with DSLR video
How-to: Shooting ENG style with Dual System Audio on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II from Createasphere on Vimeo.
Daniel Plym shows how he uses a separate audio recorder with Plural Eyes software to synch up separate audio while shooting video with a DSLR.
Newspaper video as cinema – from Dan Chung of the Guardian
Mongolian Racer from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
Dan Chung from the Guardian UK newspaper made a production out of a story on Mongolian horse races. He gives a complete rundown of the equipment he used and how he did it over on his blog: DSLR News Shooter
Whenever I look at Dan Chung’s work, I have pangs of longing to go out and shoot visual stories. He does great stuff. Alas, the metrics and the bosses say I have to produce daily news stories and not features. I have resisted shooting DSLR on news stuff just because it’s so hard to use. Might have to rethink that….
New Sony big-chip camera and new Vixia HF M32 announced
Two interesting new cameras:
1) Canon Vixia HF M32 is the next step in the tiny, AVCHD line of camcorders which keep improving with each new model. It will give 24 hours of recording to the built-in memory plus SDHC/SDXC memory cards. What makes this one interesting is that it has “Powered IS” image stabilizer, which is a hand-held miracle, and it has built-in downconversion to standard def while retaining the HD. Works with Eye-Fi cards. I am so getting one of these. $999 suggested retail. Read press release on PDN.
2) Sony says their new $2000 NEX VG-10 interchangeable-lens big-chip camera (shallow depth of field) camera will be available in September. Also does stills at 7fps. Looks awesome. New E-mount lenses dampen my enthusiasm for this one, but hopefully adapters will work with it.
UPDATE: I see E-Mount adapters on ebay for Nikkor, Canon, and Leica lenses! This Sony NEX VG10 is suddenly more interesting!
The trough of disillusionment
Oversold or breakthroughs? | crews.tv. Great cocktail napkin graphics exploring the Gartner hype cycle and how it applies to dslr video cameras.
Better focus for dslr video
Making your stills lenses into better video lenses Part 1 – Follow Focus gears « DSLR News Shooter.
Dan Chung, a photographer for the Guardian in the U.K., rounds up the follow focus choices for dslrs. No comparison reviews, but a good look at what’s available.
24 HOURS IN 19500 FRAMES on Vimeo
24 HOURS IN 19500 FRAMES on Vimeo on Vimeo
I spent many years photographing NASCAR, Indy Cars, and Sportscar racing. Autosports photography is very difficult, dangerous, and it’s really hard to make nice images in the cluttered, barricaded, and advertising-blanketed environs of a race track.
So I was stunned when I saw this video by brothers Tim and Nick Hahne, who shot with one 5Dmk2 each and four lenses between them during a 24 hours race at Nürburgring. They did a terrific job of capturing the look and feel of auto racing – and all without fancy rigs or mounts for their 5d’s.
Really inspiring work, guys!
