All I want for Christmas
I want a Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR.
1080 30P using the latest H264 video codec at a data rate of over 38 megabits / second. That’s pretty hot. The recording rate on this thing is faster than on some pro video cameras. Actually, I’ve lied - that is not all I want for Christmas — I want that camera, and a few weeks of free time to be able to play with it. And a brand new Mac workstation 
Photographer Vincent Laforet (who I am pleased to announce will be in the upcoming exhibit I am curating, Such Great Heights) got a weekend to play with the new EOS 5D and made a small high-def commercial “Reverie” (this has been blogged and talked about a million times over by now, but fun to check out if you have not seen it yet) The ‘making of video’ is up over at SmugMug and it makes me incredibly jealous.
The computers only make me tingle.
Here is a short video taken of Vincent talking with PDN products editor Dan Havlik about his weekend experience with the new Canon camera
For just under $4,000, one can now create high-quality short videos. My head is swimming with all the delicious possibilities…..
