I think the 5d is a pretty good camera for some stuff, (it’s good mainly for stuff that is staying on the web) but this underground marketing campaign to get us to BUY is outta control!

When I was going to film school, the whole DV revolution was happening.  Wherever I went, people were talking about how DV was going to change everything, and famous actors were shooting films with them, and how good the picture quality was.  I was shooting mostly 35mm and 16mm at the time, so when I got my hands on the Canon XL-1, I thought I didn’t know what I was doing when I saw the results.  Reds bled like crazy, the DOF sucked, everything was soft.  After really experimenting with the camera, I realized the camera sucked and happily went back to shooting 35mm and 16mm. 

How many DV features did you see in the theatre?  I saw one - Celebration (aside from some docs.)  I wonder how many HDSLR features we are going to see in the theatre?  My guess would be, not many.
 
Digital shooting is the way forward (clearly) due to shooting stereoscopically, but please, enough with the sales pitch on these cameras.  It’s not a real revolution; it’s a placeholder.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  05/06  at  02:17 PM

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its a real pity that so many professional filmmakers completely forgot that sound is just as important as the visuals, especially when you’re shooting a discussion!!

adam

Posted by lightningad  on  05/10  at  05:33 AM

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@adam, you are correct, we had some audio issues. Specifically a problem with a wonky audio recorder while shooting. Given our very limited time window for troubleshooting, we ended up using our backup audio solution. Did as much cleanup as we could in post, and released the interview as we feel the information was more important than pristine audio. Thanks for the feedback.

@hevets It remains to be seen, but I do think we’ll start to see more DSLR video on the big screen. It’s already in use, at least on a test basis, in television (see the latest ep of House, for instance). As to the underground campaign to buy that you reference, I don’t think that’s a fair statement. Most of the people that talk about DSLRs do so because they are passionate about the tech, not because Canon bought everyone out. Even those that speak at Canon’s events are there because they used the tech first, not because Canon approached them and said “please shoot with this instead.” Just my $0.02.

-MJ

Posted by Matt Jeppsen  on  05/12  at  11:09 AM

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