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What's Being Said About the Canon EOS C300 and RED SCARLET-X All Around the 'Net

Ryan Koo — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:44:48 +0000

Events transpired quickly during Canon and RED’s dual announcements on Thursday night, so now that the dust has settled, what are people saying about the RED SCARLET-X (left) and Canon EOS C300 (right), other than the fact that they’re basically the same price? (more…)

See Vincent Laforet's Stunning Canon C300 Short 'Mobius' Here

Ryan Koo — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:35:06 +0000

Behind the scenes after the jump. (more…)

Vincent Laforet Tests RED's Canon Mount with a $10K Lens

Ryan Koo — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:36:12 +0000

In response to the trailer for Like Crazy — the DSLR-shot indie feature that sold for $4 million at Sundance — some commenters asked about the merits of PL-mount lenses vs. Canon lenses. Traditionally, motion picture PL lenses are many times more expensive than Canon glass and offer better tactile, manual controls. But in the digital age, some of Canon’s features are suddenly handy, and RED recognizes this. (more…)

Vincent Laforet's Hour-long RED and HDSLR Premiere Pro Workflow Video

Ryan Koo — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:55:07 +0000

Vincent Laforet has been up to great things lately with his blog, from shooting with RED EPIC to covering roundtrip editing between FCP 7 and Premiere. Along with Richard Harrington, Vincent has posted an hour-long tutorial on his complete RED and HDSLR workflow in Premiere Pro: (more…)

Collaborative HDSLR Film 'The Story Beyond the Still' Premieres at Sundance (and Right Here, Online)

Ryan Koo — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:21:08 +0000

At the currently-running 2011 Sundance Film Festival, there are a number of films that are premiering simultaneously in front of a live audience and online. One of these projects is the conclusion to the Canon- and Vimeo-sponsored Story Beyond the Still contest, which, according to Canon, is “the largest online collaborative film contest in history.” Largest or not, the chapter-by-chapter crowdsourced film has produced some great individual shorts, and now for the first time it’s available as one complete film — with a new final chapter to cap it off. Watch the 38-minute compendium in its entirety here: (more…)

Speaking on the PDN PhotoPlus Expo Panel 'Platform Building'

Ryan Koo — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:42:40 +0000

I mentioned in a previous post that Vincent Laforet and I will be on a panel together as part of next weekend’s PhotoPlus Expo (which takes place Oct 28-30 here in NYC), along with Vimeo cohort Blake Whitman. I was actually planning on heading to Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity (and Stephen Colbert’s Keep Fear Alive march) on October 30th, but then I realized our panel Platform Building: Using Online Video Sharing to Attract an Audience, Establish Creativity and Network takes place at the same time. So unless you’re in DC, definitely think about registering for the conference. More details on the panel: (more…)

10 Examples of Stunning DSLR Cinematography

Ryan Koo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:40:11 +0000

They don’t look all that different from the still cameras of yesteryear, but recent DSLRs from Canon, Nikon and Panasonic do more than shoot still photos: they shoot a bunch of still photos in rapid succession and string them together into fantastic movies. Sure, compact point-and-shoot cameras also have a movie mode these days, but the large sensors inside DSLRs make them capable of producing eye-popping movies for mind-blowingly cheap… provided they’re in right hands. Here are ten sets of the right hands. (more…)

The thing about light is...

Ryan Koo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:01:46 +0000

First, Canon has announced a 24p/25p update to the Canon 5d Mark II; this is crucial and I will now be keeping the camera I purchased mere months ago. But I don’t have much interesting to say about that, other than, “thank the lord.”

There’s some other news out of the Canon camp today, however, and that’s what the title of this post is about. The thing about light is… when it comes to guerilla filmmaking, there’s never enough of it. (more…)