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