"Hollywood Squeeze More Out Of Canon's 5D MkII"

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Interesting article I thought I'd pass on. "'We do a lot of work with Canon, in fact I’m building a ten camera circle vision rig based on the 5Ds. We’re pushing Canon to give us very high quality outputs out of the camera, wirelessly controlling the lenses and all sorts of cool stuff. We have some very interesting prototypes here that will be another step forward for HD cinematography using the Canon cameras.'"

Hollywood Squeeze More Out Of Canon's 5D MkII".

 

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"In that case you have a per unit of cost of everything including lenses of about $10,000 so if you’re doing multiple cameras the Alexa and Sony F35 are too expensive as is the RED. The Canon camera becomes the best camera for that particular application.

“We are getting some remarkable results coming directly off the chip. We’re bypassing the compression to a certain extent. It’s not RAW but its not as compressed. Every cinematographer in the market is saying ‘Give us HD SDI out of this camera!’ and Canon is listening. There’s going to be some really interesting developments over the next 12 months. We’re working directly with the engineers in Tokyo.

Those are some pretty powerful statements - true gamechangers. And I just ordered a 7D! Hope these changes hit all the Canon products.