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DV Expo East Panasonic Presentation: The Benefits of Wireless Streaming in Your Camcorder

Panasonic's Steve Cooperman will be giving a presentation at this year's DV Expo East all about the benefits of wireless streaming in your camcorder. Learn about the exciting developments from Panasonic in streaming of proxy video over Wi-Fi.

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Philip Bloom's Full Frame Shootout: Review of Nikon D800, D4 and Canon

Philip Bloom has finally posted his shootout with the Nikon D800, Nikon D4 and Canon 5D Mark III. Watch below as he demonstrates resolution, low-light comparisons, each camera's features and more. Read more here on his blog.

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Project Seeks to Capture Long Term Time-Lapse of the Platte River Using 45 DSLRs

Photographer Michael Forsberg and NET Television's Michael Farrell have teamed up for a long-term time-lapse project that will document the ebb and flow of the Platte River. Forty-five cameras set up at different locations along the river will take one photo for every daylight hour of each day.

The project can be followed via the Platte Basin Time-Lapse website here. (via PetaPixel)

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Vincent Laforet's NAB Recap Part 2: Support and Accessories

Vincent Laforet writes up the camera accessories that caught his eye at NAB this year including new products from Kessler, Cinevate, Redrock Micro, Oconnor, Manfrotto, LitePanels and more. Read his full post here.

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A RED Epic Short Pays Homage to Antonioni's 'Blow Up'

This gorgeous short from Smashbox Digital not only pays homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 classis Blow Up -- it also showcases the astrounding capabilities of the RED Epic. Watch it below and then go here to Smashbox's blog to see unbelievably crisp still images taken right from the video.

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'Calling Charlie:' A Short Film Shot with the RED Scarlet-X

Filmmaker Josh Negrin shot his short film "Calling Charlie" with the RED Scarlet-X. He writes, "Our director of photography, Joseph Hendrickson, shot 'Calling Charlie' in 4K on the Red Scarlet-X using Canon Lenses. Coming from a 5D, I can assure you that operating the Scarlet is just as intuitive."

Watch the film below and read more about Negrin's workflow here on planet5D.

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DV Expo East: Build Your Video Business: Tips for Winning Clients Using Your Online Presence, June 20, NY

Digital Video Expo East is back with its famed exhibit floor, a day-long conference and free breakout presentations. On June 20th, from 2:30 - 3:15, join Mark Shoneveld, director of community at Poptent, for a session entitled "Build Your Video Business: Tips For Winning Clients Using Your Online Presence."

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DV Expo East: A Full Day Conference for Video Professionals, June 20, NYC

The DV Expo East Conference is designed for intermediate to advanced video professionals who seek to maximize their creativity and efficiency on their tools of practice.

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Vincent Laforet's NAB Recap Part 1: Cameras and Lenses

Vincent Laforet recaps some of the standout new cameras and lenses he saw at NAB this year, including the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Zeiss and Schneider lenses. Read his post here.

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GoPro Alaska Expedition with Project Aether

GoPro recently partnered with Project Aether on an ambitious expedition to Alaska to conduct science experiments and record the first high quality images of the Aurora Borealis from the edge of space.

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Gizmodo's Cineskates Review

Gizmodo gives the CineSkates "skateboard" dolly 3.5 out of 5 stars. They write, "Super portable, light-weight, and fun to use. And cheap! You can get some really nice shots for not a lot of money (relatively speaking)...[but] the surfaces you can use it on are extremely limited. Hardwood floor, polished concrete, or smooth counter/tabletop will work. Not much else."

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Free Screening and Hands-On Session with the Canon C500, May 10th, L.A.

On May 10th, Canon will be holding a free hand-on event and 4K screening centered around its Canon EOS C500. The free event will run from 6 PM to 8 PM at the Los Angeles Film School, 6363 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. Advance registration is required. Read more and register here.

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Animated 'Pirates' Movie Made with One Million Stills from Fifty 1D Mark IIIs

Animation house Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) shot their latest stop-motion film The Pirates! entirely on 50 DSLRs, the Canon 1D Mark III to be exact.

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The Battle Between RED and Zacuto Gets Interesting

First, RED announced a 4K camera shoot-out for any and all cameras. Two days later, they canceled it but not without sending out some fighting words into the cybersphere directed at Zacuto and their yearly Great Camera Shootout.

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Do Filmmakers Really Need A Digital Camera As Beautiful as the Blackmagic Cinema Camera?

Fast Company's Co.Design waxes lyrical about the Blackmagic Cinema Camera's beauty and promised practicality, but also wonders, "The Blackmagic Cinema Camera is undeniably sexy, and sends a very clear message: professional filmmaking gear should be beautiful, not just functional. And what’s wrong with that message? It works for Apple.

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RGBD Toolkit Combines Kinects and DSLRs

Ready to try out some DIY projection mapping? The RGBD Toolkit provides you with a workflow and downloadables for getting your DSLR to work with your Kinect. Says PCWorld, "The video quality is still pretty rough, with ragged edges and lots of depth noise, but it’s a start. It also looks really badass in terms of space-hologram-looking virtual 3D-video."

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Po Chan's Vision for 'The Ticket' Discussed on Digital Convergence Podcast

Chris Fenwick talks to Po Chan, director of NAB-screened Canon 1D C short film "The Ticket," about everything from framing and lighting to color correction and post-production. Listen to the Digital Convergence Podcast here.

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Why 'Instagram for Video' Apps Will Go Big

ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus tries out Socialcam and Viddy, two smartphone video apps that are vying to be the next Instagram. He writes, "Overall, I'm bullish on social video as The New Thing - regardless of who 'wins'.

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Occupy Maps the Skies Over May Day Protests with DIY Balloon Cameras

To document New York City's continuing Occupy Wall Street protests, the Grassroots Mapping project sent balloon-mounted cameras into the skies to construct live maps.

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Added by Sarv Taghavian--Creative Planet Network, 05/02/12 04:05:15 PM

RED Proposes Camera Shoot-Out on June 4th

RED CEO Jim Jannard has invited every camera company to come down to RED's studios for a camera shootout on June 4th. As SlashGear explains. "Jannard lays out the rules as such: companies can bring whatever camera they please, plus a team of techs to oversee the testing. They can also post-process their footage however they want. Jannard says that footage will be screened in both 2K and 4K using digital projectors across several screen sizes, including 10, 20, and 40-feet.

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'CatCam: The Movie:' Imaging and Ingenuity in Seth Keal’s Documentary

CatCam: The Movie charmed audiences at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, where it received the Short Film Jury prize for documentary shorts before moving on to screenings at the Aspen Shortsfest, Full Frame, Sarasota and Tribeca.

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'New Star of India:' Nissan’s Bollywood-Style Video Produced Through Cross-Continent Pipeline

The creation of the five-minute promotional film “New Star of India” was truly an international affair. The Bollywood-style film from director Ahmed Khan and agency AKQA for Nissan was designed to introduce the subcontinent to the Micra automobile.

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'Moonrise Kingdom' and Media Composer: Andrew Weisblum’s Editing Adventures

Wes Anderson is a director known for his ability to bring interesting and quirky stories and characters to the screen. His latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, takes place on an island in New England sometime in the 1960s. Two pre-teens meet, fall in love and run away together. This brings the adults together in an effort to find them, and it sparks a fantastical adventure for the two lead characters, Suzy (Kara Hayward) and Sam (Jared Gilman).

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'Comic-Con Episode IV—A Fan’s Hope:' Director Morgan Spurlock Discusses His Superfan Film

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold) chose the San Diego pop culture convention Comic-Con as the focus of his latest feature, Comic-Con Episode IV—A Fan’s Hope. In the film, Spurlock takes a humorous but sympathetic look at several attendees and gives audiences multiple perspectives on the significance of Comic-Con by focusing on these disparate stories.

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