I’ve finally found the time to update the PUBLICATIONS page on this blog with:
So, 20 articles, 5 conferences, 6 reports and books, 4 collaterals and 1 video listed. Not so bad ;-)
We like very much the TV show “House”. I have seen a quite old news from May 2010, telling us that the whole season was filmed with a Canon 5D MarkII. Wow, interesting….
A Canon 5D Mark II has become the first video-capable DSLR to film a whole episode of a US primetime series. Greg Yaitanes, director of FOX broadcasting company’s medical drama series ‘House’, used the camera, a selection of Canon’s prime lenses and, the 24-70mm and 70-200mm lenses to shoot its season finale. Speaking via Twitter, he said that this was to achieve a shallow depth of field and a ‘richer look’. He also said he ‘feels it’s the future’.
You can find also a Twitter-interview of Greg Yaitanes, the director of the show.
What is the difference in how it looks on a TV screen compared to a regular camera?
Greg Yaitanes: richer. shallow focus pulls the actors faces to forground [sic]
How many frames per second and why a Canon 5D Mark II?
GY: 24p and wanted it for ease of use in tight spaces.
Ok, seriously. Can you tell us something about the lenses you used?
GY: all the canon primes and the 24-70 and the 70-200 zoom
Did you have to change any of your working practices to fit in with differences between the 5D and a typical setup?
GY: some. focus was hard with these lenses but more “cine-style” lenses are being made as we speak.
Were you using CF cards for storage or some sort of mass storage mod? seems like you would need a lot of cards :)
GY: some 18gb or something like that card. gave us 22 min of footage.
How was the quality as compared 2 the traditional camera used in shooting?
GY: i loved it and feel it’s the future. cameras that can give you these looks
How did you manage to stabilize the camera in tight spaces? Any special kind of brackets?
GY: no. mostly gave it a hand held feel. or on a small tripod
I was very focused (!) on the “normal” usage of my 5D MarkII in the last months (enough to do technically ;), but this was definitely a good reminder that I can also do some videos.
…was as usual a great time and breathing for Manu (old mate and Boomerang Owner & CEO) and myself. The Phil Collins concert was not soooo great. The band was cool (specially the bass player), Phil Collins very … uhm … not cool (was he sick?). I’m not a Motown specialist, but some choices for the covers were quite “odd/bizarre”, to be honest. Kind of The Love Boat series…
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizVidz-2009090604.swf
Again, quite an high traffic on my visuals this month :-)
Second time over 100’000 views per month. And more than 600’000 pictures & video viewed since January…
Wow, thanks for your interest, don’t deserve that!
Wow, that’s cool :-) I have received today my new camera and lens.
After quite a long comparison phase between the new Canon 7D and the “old” 5D MarkII, I have decided myself for the full-reflex, i.e. the EOS 5D MarkII.
More on this comparison later on but the full-reflex capability was decisive ;-)
As you have to use EF lens (this camera is not compatible with the EF-S series) and I was interested to shoot with a fix 35mm, I have also acquired a new Canon lens (from far the most expensive I have), the 35mm f/1.4L USM.
My first attempts (please be indulgent ;-) are quite exciting.
SmugMug is evolving very well, nice new features are published very regularly. Really a great service. From far better than Flickr…
An example of the embedded slideshow feature below:
http://visuals.didierbeck.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2009090305.swf?AlbumID=8565060&AlbumKey=bxxiE&transparent=true&bgColor=&borderThickness=&borderColor=&useInside=&endPoint=&mainHost=visuals.didierbeck.com&VersionNos=2009090305&showLogo=false&width=600&height=400&clickToImage=true&captions=true&showThumbs=false&autoStart=true&showSpeed=false&pageStyle=white&showButtons=false&randomStart=true&randomize=true&splash=&splashDelay=0&crossFadeSpeed=250
On last Sunday evening, I had the chance to take part in one of the best concert I have ever seen. Mister Leonard Cohen (Wikipedia, official website) was giving a concert in Colmar, France. And what for a concert!
Fantastic. Emotional. Elegant. Enthusiastic. Moving. Entertaining. Exciting.
7’000 fans and connoisseurs of Cohen’s works, supporting and respecting the musicians on stage, that was just impressive. As usual during concerts, I find that silences are really showing how far an audience is enjoying (or not) a concert. An this one was full of silences :-)
The current band features:
I shot some videos during the show, low video quality but the sound is not bad. Have a try.
And now, the Lorient beach!
http://cdn.smugmug.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008120101.swf
