Comments on: Harry Potter & The 5D Mark II

By: Duncan Deshayes

Duncan Deshayes — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:37:15 +0000

Interesting comments. My children are really into Harry Potter after reading the books. They are 7 and 8. They want to go dressed up in harry potter costumes .

By: Larry W.

Larry W. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:26:09 +0000

I keep hearing about this stuff. Really interesting. I have looked online and found some other blogs that offer some information, but not as much as on this site. Your blog is definitely going in my subscription program!

By: Jeff Mac

Jeff Mac — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:32:30 +0000

I work in the industry and I can assure you that they are not shooting their motion picture on the 5D. This is simply not done on major motion pictures. They may be using it for testing or previewing but that would be all.

By: dr.evil

dr.evil — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:06:55 +0000

if they truly use it for filming and not stil shots, it is for sure using a different firmware which allows full manual controll!!!!!

IF it is not a fake

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Sun, 17 May 2009 06:02:05 +0000

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:38:22 +0000

Hastur Hastur Hastur!

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:59:12 +0000

Why don’t you just slob my knob? We don’t care about your petition.

By: CPS 08

CPS 08 — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:15:10 +0000

Yea Sam is right. Film is very expensive and if the 5D2 can mimick or recreate the same look and feel…well that’ll really help a lot of indie film people.

Telecine = $10,000 per one hour of footage
Super 16 = $3500 used
Lenses…my friend got an ultra wide film lens and it was $15k. Supposedly that was a “bargain”.

Right now I don’t think the 5D2’s 1080p has the image quality of Super 16 but for the cost I definitely am NOT complaining haha.

By: CPS 08

CPS 08 — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:09:16 +0000

Well its wishful thinking but I have seen film cameras that can do that. And thanks for the profoto wishes Zac. I’m excited.

Kinko’s Fedex some how managed to screw up the shipping and its taking 2 weeks instead of 3 days. Haha, I think the wait is making it even more rewarding.

Anyway, like I said, above comments just contain my hopes and wishes. :)

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:05:15 +0000

Good stuff Will, I’ve bookmarked your site and be good to know how it works out. I can’t wait to have a proper test with some new glass.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:55:06 +0000

and me, and I reckon quite a few other people who like the idea of a decent and cheap alternative to film that doesn’t involve spinning frosted glass and is made by a company with a great range of lenses.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:13:26 +0000

freedom.

For years technics were used to light the inside of a car with conventional, heavy, big lighting equipement. Not pratical but it could be make at the sacrifice of other things like camera placement, on location shooting, etc.

But then, Litepanels came up and it has become easy to setup light in narrow places. So it gives the director more freedom to work with.

The 5DII is an improvement too made in the direction. Is it perfect? No. Is it shooting 4k? No. But sometimes it might just be what you need for a special 10 second shoot.

It is another tool they can use and they will use whatever they think is best for each individual shoots.

By: jouster

jouster — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:06:12 +0000

why would you set up a shot you couldn’t do on a full-size film rig?

By: will

will — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:31:03 +0000

sorry link didnt work :/ here is the sight http://williameubank.com/news/