Calm down – Canon has not made a professional video camera
Web buzz about the Canon 5D and 7D cameras seems to be spilling over into the real world. We take a look at the fuss…
Peter Parnham
The one that started it all
Calm down. Canon has not made an HD camera that will take over from the big boys like Red, Sony, Panavision or Arri - the corporate camera makers fighting over the old 35mm film space.
Nor are Canon about to take over the television camera space largely owned – in New Zealand at any rate – by Sony and Panasonic.
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F23 camera a first for New Zealand
New cameras put to the test on Skyrunners, the first original movie for the new U.S. Disney XD cable channel…
Panavision
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Shortland Street future-proofed with new cameras
A big bang change over to HD could mean big trouble so television icon prepares one step at a time…
F900
The big bang approach to upgrading from SD to HD has risks when you have a finely tuned production schedule like the venerable Shortland St.
The South Pacific Pictures serial medical drama shoots five days a week for 10 ¾ hours per day – five episodes a week.
There is no room for disrupted schedules or unreliable equipment on a set that moves this fast.
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