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HDR Video – with 2 Canon 5Ds

Published on September 10, 2010 in Editing. 2 Comments Tags: , .


HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II’s from Soviet Montage on Vimeo.

This video highlights several clips we’ve made using our new High Dynamic Range (HDR) process. Video is captured on two Canon 5D mark II DSLRs, each capturing the exact same subject via a beam splitter. The cameras are configured so that they record different exposure values, e.g., one camera is overexposed, the other underexposed. After the footage has been recorded, we use a variety of HDR processing tools to combine the video from the two cameras, yielding the clips you see above.

HDR Video provides filmmakers with many exciting new opportunities. Not only can HDR video create interesting effects, it can also allow for even exposure where artificial lighting is unavailable or impractical. For example, when a subject is backlit, one camera could be set to properly expose the subject, the other the sky, resulting in video with perfect exposure throughout.

We will continue to develop and improve the HDR video process for better results and efficiency. For more information, check out our website sovietmontage.com.

“House” Season finale shot on Canon 5D

Published on May 19, 2010 in Shooting. 0 Comments Tags: .

This season’s last episode of House has been shot on HDSLR: with a Canon 5D Mk II and Canon lenses (including a 50mm f/1.0 – talk about shallow depth of field!)

The feedback of Vincent Laforet was very positive:

1. The lens sharpness was phenomenal. Why? The lighting. Sure we all caught some glimpses of people/faces falling out of focus at times – something all 5D MKII and HDDSLR operators are well acquainted with… I’m sure this could be remedied with many of the newer 3rd party lens options out there today. I am told this episode was shot with Canon EF Lenses – including the 24~70mm 2.8 and 70~200mm 2.8 – lenses that are particularly difficult to set focus marks with, as they were never really intended to be used as cinema lenses.
2. The image quality was phenomenal. No noise. No artifacting whatsoever. No blocking up of shadows. Why? In my opinion: The lighting.
3. The lighting throughout was phenomenal. Basically – it was lit in a very similar way if not identical way to the high standard that House has been filmed in the past. DP Gale Tatersall understood something that I have formulated over the past 2 years with the Canon 5D MKII: While the camera does produce incredible results in low light – you still need to light for it carefully – and often, you’ll end up lighting it in very similar ways to how you would light for just about any camera out there. The difference is that you may need 1-2 stops less overall in lighting at times.

So if you thought an HDSLR didn’t need proper lighting, think again.

Compare RED, Canon 5D and Lumix GH1 in 1 spot

Published on March 16, 2010 in Movies. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Byron Shah has made a test movie with 3 digital cinema cameras together: the HDSLRs Canon 5D ($2500) and Panasonic Lumix ($1500), and the RED 3K Scarlet camera ($3000). Every shot has been watermarked with the material it was shot with: e.g. “RED3K/300mmNikkor2.8/60fps” or “Canon 5D2/ISO50/50mm ZE/T2/Ultracon3“.
The RED camera can shoot at 60fps which can then be slowed down to esthetic slo-mo. The 5D performs really well in low light conditions (using up to ISO 2500). In some indoor (or should I say, in-car) situations, I can imagine that the Lumix GH1′s swiveling viewfinder came in really handy.


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The Canon 5D finally gets 24p/25p

Published on March 8, 2010 in Technical. 0 Comments Tags: .

Canon press release of March 2, 2010: the 5D mk II gets a Firmware 2.0.3 update.

Developed following feedback from photographers and cinematographers, Firmware 2.0.3 further enhances the EOS 5D Mark II’s excellent video performance. The addition of new frame rates expands the camera’s video potential, providing filmmakers with the ability to shoot 1080p Full HD footage at 24fps (actual 23.976fps) – the optimum frame rate for cinematic video. 25fps support at both 1920×1080 and 640×480 resolutions will allow users to film at the frame rate required for the PAL broadcast standard, while the new firmware will also change the 30fps option to the NTSC video standard of 29.97fps.

So the days where you had to buy a non-full-frame camera (7D) instead of a full-frame (5DmkII) to be able to shoot in 24p native are over!

via prolost.com

“City of lakes”: Wedding Photography 2.0

Published on March 7, 2010 in Movies. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Wedding photographers are plenty, and so some people take it one step further. Kevin Shahinian of Pacific Pictures is “leading the wedding videography industry in creating hollywood/bollywood concept videos that add a story element to the clients wedding video“.

In the fall of 2009, Melissa & Samir embarked on an incredible journey to Udaipur, India, to fulfill a lifelong dream of having their wedding in the country of their ancestry. This transcendent place, affectionately called the “CITY OF LAKES,” located in the breathtaking region of Rajasthan, would be the setting for their extravagant, three-day marriage celebration, and the backdrop of our unprecedented film production – shot entirely on-location. We believe this to be the first ever live event/scripted concept production ‘hybrid’ film ever produced on this scale. It was shot entirely on DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark2 and 7D.

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The 5D was built for AP and Reuters

Published on October 3, 2009 in Market. 0 Comments Tags: .


via studiodaily.com
It seems Canon was taken by surprise when they saw the enthusiasm in the cinema/movie crowd for the quality and possibilities of the 5D mk II.

Describing the Canon 5D Mark II, Smith (Tim Smith – Canon USA) noted that “we didn’t design this camera for you guys (cinematographers) …we didn’t even think of you guys. (…) He noted that the 5D had been built for AP and Reuters which had asked Canon to build a camera that their still photographers could use to also grab video for the website. “When we saw the 5D footage, it was tough to hold our tongues and to convince the Canon people what would happen to our business once the camera was released,” continued Smith. “Our marketing team expected 3 to 5 percent of the people who bought it would be interested in the video side of the camera. It’s closer to 40 percent, and there are 15,000 5D cameras on back order.”

Read the whole article for a discussion on cinema-quality lenses and how they are being used with HDSLR cameras.

Canon 5D footage: convert from 30p to 24p

Published on May 20, 2009 in Workflow. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

How to convert your footage from Canon 5D MkII 30fps to 23.98/24fps: you play the frames at a lower speed, so you need to pitch the audio up again.
Using Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, Compressor!

How to convert Canon 5dmk2 footage from 30p to 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Genesis: Reverie by Vincent Laforet

Published on October 30, 2008 in Movies. 0 Comments Tags: .


Oct 2008: Vincent Laforet shows with the first Canon 5D MkII HD video “Reverie” that the world of cinema is about to undergo a revolution: it is now possible to shoot cinema-quality footage with a digital SLR camera. Not with a $25.000 camera, but a $2.500 camera.

The $2500 camera of-course has to be used with lenses, and those who have bought them know: the good ones are not cheap. In the case of a professional like Laforet, he has lenses, really expensive ones (look for the Canon “L” series), and he used pretty much all of them:

EF Lenses used in the making of REVERIE:
FD 7.5mm f/5.6 (converted to EF mount)
EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
EF 135mm f/2L USM
EF 200mm f/1.8L USM
EF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM
EF 500mm f/4L IS USM
TS-E 24mm f/3.5L
TS-E 45mm f/2.8

Canon launches its first HDSLR: the 5D mark II

Published on September 30, 2008 in Launch. 0 Comments Tags: .

via dpreview.com

After a week or so of teaser ads Canon has finally unveiled the successor to the venerable EOS 5D, the world’s first ‘compact’ full frame digital SLR. The EOS 5D Mark II boasts a new 21MP CMOS sensor, an expanded ISO range of 50-25,600 and a wealth of improvements and new features including full 1080p HD movie recording, live view, 3.0″ 920k dot LCD, DIGIC IV processor, increased battery capacity and sensor dust reduction.

They were maybe not the first, but now that they’re in, the set the new state-of-the-art: the new 5D mark II camera is the first digital SLR camera capable of recording video on 1080p (full HD) resolution. That’s right: this is a full-frame camera, that you can use with your Canon EF lenses.

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