Notes On Video

1st Production Sony F65 | Twitter "1st production Sony #F65 SN10001 was presented by CEO Sir Howard Stringer to Otto Nemenz In Hawaii Thursday night http://bit.ly/yHoFet" @AlexBuono | Twitter "Just learned that our "Chantix" parody on last #SNL was the official broadcast debut of the #Canon #C300. Cheers! http://bit.ly/yTqyXI" Rodney Charters Reviews Canon C300 and Accessories | Zacuto I linked to Rodney's video earlier, but incase you missed it, here Zacuto adds some notes: Charters further explains that he wants Canon to offer the C300 without the XLR/monitor add-on that mounts to the top of the camera to get below the elusive $10,000 price point. He goes on to say that because the C300 stamps each frame with timecode, it’s not really a problem syncing up audio from a secondary audio capturing device. It would definitely make sense for some people and other manufacturers could possibly create an XLR add-on that comes without the screen. ...

What We Thought Of The Canon C300 – Four Working Pros Give Their Views | Dan Chung | DSLR News Shooter An interesting video with four people chatting about the C300.  Their views on lenses is interesting too as they are more interested in short-throw lenses. Also, three of the four have already ordered a C300 : After a long day shooting out on location with a pre-production Canon C300 I invited DOP Andy Jackson , James Velacott of Cherryduck productions and Guardian freelance shooter Felix Clay to discuss their thoughts about the new camera with me. Below is a quickly thrown together video of our discussion. C300 For 10G I expect a big smile.. | Sam Morgan Moore | DSLR4Real Partly in response to Dan's article, Sam think's the C300 doesn't wow him enough; for the price: If you do any interviews the camera will need a rig, and canon seem to have placed the lens height just wrong - that will force you to buy a new rail block at least 8 Bit -We are seeing some clips...

Canon EOS C300 Pub Night with Larry Thorpe on 1.5.11 | Rule Boston Camera | Vimeo Rule Boston Camera has posted a video of last week's Pub Night with Larry Thorpe : Canon EOS C300 Pub Night with Larry Thorpe on 1.5.11 from Rule Boston Camera on Vimeo . Filmmaker Interview #13 – Robin Schmid | Neil Rolland | Write.Shoot.Cut An interview with D.P. Robin Schmidt aka El Skid: All my paid work now is about exploiting the opportunities of social media through film, converting brands into stories and helping them understand how to market themselves through content. Sounds boring, but it pays very nicely. As a filmmaker you basically get used to spending the whole time skint. When the funding bodies all go bust you have to fund things yourself and this is a real pain in the ass. I refuse to accept that you can’t have your cake and eat it and now I’m managing to earn a decent amount through filmmaking and carve out a chunk of that to fund my own endeavours. Still skint though...

One Reason to Get a Sony F3 Instead of the Canon C300: Flexibility | Ryan Koo | NoFilmSchool Ryan's ordered a Scarlet , but here he tries to persuade those interested in the C300 that they should really buy the Sony PMW-F3 . C300 has no such “S-Log with external recorder” equivalent (just a flat picture profile setting). But it is much smaller and lighter. The amount to which the C300′s small size is an advantage depends on your own needs… if you’re trying to steal locations the diminutive profile of the C300 may be worth the price of admission alone (though a DSLR will be equally if not more incognito). Using the C300 to create believable pictures – Late Night Chatter with Rodney Charters, Drew Gardner and Lan Bui – part 2 | VU BUI | The Bui Brothers Blog Another part of the series of video's posted by these filmmakers: Rodney talks about true guerrilla filmmaking with a camera like the C300. It’s not only about having a smaller form factor, but the “handholdability...

DP’S DISCUSS THE CANON C300 | Michael Murie | Filmmaker Magazine At last week's intro to the C300 I interviewed some of the attendees for their reactions to the camera for this article for Filmmaker Magazines website: ...what I’m most impressed about tonight, having already seen footage before, is that this camera has a really nice feel in my hands. The controls are really obviously laid out; I’ve got my confidence indicators right on the screen for ASA, color temperature, and wave form. Everything is very beautifully laid out, there’s only a couple of buttons the operator really needs to deal with that set everything you need to know. It’s very obvious how to use it at a glance and it feels really comfortable. First Impressions of the Canon CinemaEOS C300 | Tom Talbot | Rule Boston Camera Tom Talbot of Rule Boston Camera offers his own thoughts on the camera, including some interesting notes on camera bags for this unusually shaped camera! I will devote a future blog ...

You can't pre-order the Canon EOS-1D X yet, but B & H is already accepting pre-orders for the Nikon D4  [$5,999.95] And, they are also taking pre-orders for the Canon PowerShot G1 X Digital  [$799.00] camera which was just announced as well.

I watched some of Sony's CES keynote with Howard Stringer. He announced a Wi-Fi enabled Bloggie (it seems that 2012 is the year of Wi-Fi cameras) pushed 4K in the home (with a home projector, Bluray upscaling players and demo 4K TV's allegedly in the booth. They also had a walk-on from Will Smith after showing the MIB3 trailer, and a bit of back and forth that must have been written by the Oscar show scriptwriters. Very awkward and unnatural. They also announced an updated 3D consumer camcorder, the HDR-TD20 , which is thinner than the previous model. Sony reveals Spring Handycam lineup, including HDR-CX760V, XR260V, and CX190 | Christopher Snow | Camcorderinfo CES 2012: Sony offers new cameras and projection camcorders | Terry Sullivan | ConsumerReports Sony Bloggie Live Lets You Live-Stream Video Over Wi-Fi | Tim Moynihan | PCWorld Sony's slim new HDR-TD20V 3D camcorder hands-on pictures | Paul Miller | The Verge

Canon made the obligatory announcements of new consumer camcorders, promising improved low light performance, and Wi-Fi support. 2012 Canon VIXIA Camcorders Bring New Social Sharing Capabilities And Strong Low-Light Performance Features Include a Newly Designed HD CMOS Pro Image Sensor to Improve Resolution, Enhance Low-Light Performance and Expand Dynamic Range LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., January 9, 2012 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced a new line of six VIXIA High Definition flash memory camcorders - three compact VIXIA HF M-series models and three entry-level VIXIA HF R-series models - for 2012. Focusing on the social network experience, Canon has enhanced select models with Wi-Fi connectivity, the option to capture videos in MP4 or AVCHD file format and full Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) compatibility, unleashing on-the-spot creative video sharing and still-image uploads. The MP4 file format option helps make content easier to sha...

Canon C300 Test Film | Mark Moreve | Vimeo Another film shot on the C300 , this one by Mark Moreve and others: This film is a Test of the Canon C300 camera using Canon ef lenses. We filmed different scenes around Chelsea in London to see how the C300 dealt with the varied conditions offered on a London street. [...]It performed very well holding detail in highlights and also shadows where we didn't expect and because of the quality of the LCD screen and viewfinder it is much easier to operate. The Camera was set to 1920 x 1080 @ 50m/bs - 25p we used the Normal 3 Gamma curve & Matrix. French film director Pierre Deschamps is amazed by Canon’s EOS C300 cinema camera | Canon He may be amazed, but it's a pretty short article...with a short video: “I wanted to shoot as neutral as possible,” says Deschamps. “As one guy shooting, it’s very important not to complicate things…it’s easier to handle it in post afterwards.” To test the camera in the daylight he shot into the...

Nikon D4 News NIKON’S JAMES BANFIELD DEMONSTRATES THE VIDEO FUNCTIONS OF THE D4 | Dan Chung | DSLR News Shooter Dan checks out the D4 and it's video capabilities: Yesterday I had a chance to get a hands-on with a pre-production Nikon D4 at the company’s UK headquarters. James Banfield of Nikon UK demonstrates the video functions in the video below. We tried the camera’s clean HDMI output with the Zacuto EVF and Atomos Ninja and I can confirm that it works. We also tried the headphone output and the audio functions of the camera and I’m pleased to report they also work as expected. Nikon D4 Brochure [PDF] | Nikon You can download a PDF of the Nikon D4 brochure at the above link. Another film shot on the D4 , this one by Corey Rich WHY - Nikon D4 Release Video from Corey Rich on Vimeo . Nikon D4 vs. Canon EOS 1Dx specs comparison | NikonRumors A comparison chart for the two new cameras; on the face of it, there's not a whole lot of differences. Nikon...

Nikon D4 Digital SLR - The New King of the Hill for DSLR Video? | Cameratown A look at the promising video capabilities of the new Nikon D4 : The uncompressed HDMI output allows the video feed from the camera to be fed to an external HD field recorder for a more streamlined workflow in some circumstances. Unfortunately, it's been reported that the camera cannot record to it's own memory cards while sending the signal to it's HDMI port. I'm not sure if this is only true when mirroring the signal to the camera's LCD. If not, this could pose a big problem for those looking to use an external monitor for monitoring. Nikon D4 | Amazon No price, and you can't order yet, but you can sign up to be notified when it's available. And so it Begins… Nikon D4 HDSLR Announced! | Paul D A list of specs for the D4 . I recently wrote “..if you thought 2011 was an important year for cameras, photographers and filmmakers…you ain’t seen nothing yet!” Well we’re on...

Unfortunately, this video wasn't shot with the Canon C300 , but you get to see four C300's!

A correction to today's report on the Canon C300 supporting 60p out the HDMI port. This is incorrect and a result of working from my incomplete notes taken during the meeting. Here's what Larry Thorpe actually said about the HDMI/HD-SDI output and 60p support: Q: I was wondering if you could discuss what’s coming out the HDMI and the SDI spigots out the back? A: HD-SDI is coming out, base band, 4:2:2, 8-bit in a 10-bit carrier, as I described earlier. HDMI, same signal, base band HD Q: And all the frame rates will come out? A: Yes, all the frame rates will come out. Oh, frame rates, now that's another thing I have to say, because there’s a limitation there, the image sensor that I described can go all the way up to 60p, it’s very fast. The processor and the codec that we lifted out of the XF305 to put in this camera, at 1080 it can’t deliver 60p, it’s limited to 30p, so we have 24p, 23…oh by the way we do 24.00 and 23.98, if you want to do film or television work....

Rule Boston Camera has been running their Pub Nights - a slightly less formal, evening lecture series - for about a year now, but I’m pretty sure that last night’s “ Canon EOS C300 New England Debut ” had the largest attendance of any of them. A large crowd turned out to eat the free pizza and drink the beer, and hear Larry Thorpe explain what’s so different about the C300. Larry brought with him four cameras, including one with a PL mount, and they were set up in different configurations and rigs for those present to handle. But they couldn’t tell us one thing; the price. They won’t tell us that until January 17th. Until then, all they will say is “the list price is $20,000.” Introduced by John Rule as “ an engineers’ engineer, ” Larry began by asking how many creative people were present - at least two thirds of the crowd put up their hands - and then, how many techie people were present. When only two or three people put up their hands, he continued, “Oh great, no PowerPoint to...

Due to a power outage(!) and other issues, there will be no posting this morning, but I will be at the Rule Boston Camera event tonight to see the Canon C300 and will post on it either tonight or tomorrow morning.

Canon C300 – the ultimate low light test with Rodney Charters, Drew Gardner and Lan Bui | The Bui Brothers | Blog Another post from the adventures of Rodney, Drew & Lan and the C300 : ... then shot this non scientific test for low light with the Canon C300. Rodney shoots a lot of TV stuff and has much more knowledge than I do on how good this test really is. I was blown away at how well we were able to see Drew when we lit him with just an iPad. Yes thats right we lit a person with just an iPad and shot it with a C300. Now some of you might we thinking it is unrealistic to actually use an iPad in a production to light something. I’m not going to tell you if it is right or wrong… but it is a possibility. The Ultimate low light test with a Canon C300? perhaps not, but a real eye opener as my eyes were starting to close | Drew Gardner Drew also posted the video, with only a few more details: It was a fun day, but by close to 2AM on the 1st January I was fading FAST. At this...

New Year's Resolutions For Filmmakers | Scott Macaulay | Filmmaker Scott offers ideas for the coming year: 4. Work for a friend. Take a page from Lucas McNelly and his Kickstarter project — don’t just obsess about your own work, make yourself crew for someone you know. UPM, do locations, cast, take sound for a project of someone other than yourself. Commit to the level of your free time. New MTF Services Lens Adapters" Electronic EOS To Sony F3/FS100/Panasonic AND B4 To EOS/Sony F2/FS100 | Dan Chung | DSLR News Shooter We've been looking for a good EOS lens adapter, and maybe MTF has one: The MTF EOS electronic lens adapter is the first to actually be available to order for the Sony F3 and NEX. It also works with Micro 4/3 cameras like the Panasonic AF100 where it joins the already available Redrockmicro livelens adapter in offering aperture control, but adds the benefit of image stabilisation. American company Birger Engineering have also been working on a simila...