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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James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever | Magazine.

ProVideo Coalition.com: Pro Cameras, Video Editing, Motion Graphics.

One guy’s opinion about the 5d. Press release

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How Arri Designed Their Digital Future

via WELCOME | High Definition magazine.

It was back in 2004 that we first heard about the digital camera journey that Arri were embarking on. They were showing a short film of violinist Nicola Benedetti playing outdoors and indoors in what looked like a period estate house, it had been shot with their experimental digital camera. The people enthusing about Arri’s ‘experiments’ were mainly film guys who weren’t interested in HD cameras derived from ENG roots but wanted their optical viewfinders and film lenses, they wanted the status quo as long as it had Arri on the side of it.

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