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We are on the cusp of an amazing revolution in camera design and movie making. Canon is about to steal the spotlight with its new 5dII camera’s movie mode. The key to making that movie quality look, for those of you not familiar with photography , is being able to manipulate depth of focus. By manipulating DOF, you can blur backgrounds/foregrounds and highlight the point of interest. Up until now the only digital camera capable of doing this was the RED.com digital cameras, which are changing the movie industry as we speak, yet are still very expensive. What Canon has done is created a camera without the bells and whistles most movie makers will want, yet can still produce as good or better movie footage than most 100 thousand to 200 thousand dollar cameras. In low light situations it appears the Canon blows just about everything away, including the RED camera system. Cost of the Canon 5dII? Suggested retail of 2,700.00 for body only.

Vincent Laforet had access to a 5DII for a weekend and produced a video which Canon has agreed to host in the next day or two. During his 3 day shoot, he spent 5000 making the video, 2000 of which was spent on a helicopter flight.

His view is this camera is amazing and a game changer.

If you are interested by new technology and seeing things for the first time, be sure to check out his blog for details on the video. The video should be up soon.

Here is the link
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BuffaloJack · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:

Modern camera systems truly are remarkable. My wife bought me a really nice SLR 2 years ago and it is only recently that I have begun to realize some of its capabilities. I tried something called multifocus (and I couldn't do it again without having the book open). In a single operation the camera allows you to set up to 9 focal planes, then when you snap the shutter the camera takes a bunch of photos each at a different focal plane and makes one picture out of it with everything in focus. Imaging you are at a baseball game and standing behing the home plate umpire. You can have the umpire, catcher, batter, 2nd baseman, and centerfielder all in one shot and all in focus and clear as a bell.
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GenrXr · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:03 am Post subject:

Talk about a game changer.

The 5dII has Red scared. So much so that a camera they have been working on for over a year was scrapped last night.

This does not happen very often and Jim Jannard founder of Oakley sunglasses and the founder of RED should be commended for being upfront and forward.

He wrote this at 11:35pm last night,

GenrXr · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:54 am Post subject:

dusty · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

Now that's an impressive camera.
I really liked the lady in the red dress too. Very Happy

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