Nikon D90 or Canon 50D MK II – Twitterstream
ConstantChange
To @5tu and @EugeniaLoli – friend got hands on Nikon D90 – prefer or not over Canon 50D Mk II?
Stu Maschwitz
5tu @ConstantChange Not.
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ConstantChange
@5tu I guessed so. The footage I’m seeing from the D90 really looks nice though. http://ri.ms/rfv4 (D90 Grammy spot shot by friend)
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EugeniaLoli
@ConstantChange That’s because the scenes are so short that you don’t get to see all the disadvantages of the D90. Choose 5D.
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ConstantChange
@EugeniaLoli Cheers, as I told Stu Maschwitz – that was what I suspected, wanted to confirm it remained true after firmware updates etc ty!
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ConstantChange
The film we are shooting in Hawai’i right now is using a RED camera
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EugeniaLoli
Ordered the Rode Stereo VideoMic, a dead kitten for it, and a 2.5 m boom pole too. Should be fun.
ConstantChange
@EugeniaLoli – I love the rode mic for my HV20. Have the boom pole too but the attachment screw for it is not well designed.
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(Meanwhile back on Stu’s Twittertstream:)
Stu Maschwitz
@debonbon Actually (Nikon D90′s) 720p is a wonderful resolution if everything else is done well. What Nikon needs is manual control.
Tyler Ginter
@5tu If rolling shutter is the same on the D300s as the D90 and D5000 then Nikon is just showing how little pride they take in video… IMO
Stu Maschwitz
@tylerginter Agreed. The 5D2′s rolling shutter is nasty but workable. The D90′s is a dealbreaker.
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Eugenia Loli is a videographer, tech journalist, developer who writes an excellent blog about video, post-production and color correction at http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/
Stu Maschwitz is a founder of The Orphanage and author of the DV Rebel’s Toolkit. he runs http://prolost.com/ an astounding resource on everything from After Effects and color timing to the very latest in HD cameras and shooting techniques.
Constant Change is the author of this blog.
**Full disclosure – although Stu and Eugenia are both critical and discerning and do not work for either of the companies being discussed, I did first come across each of them through their enthusiasm for, and my interest in, the Canon HV20 camera.
Top Cinematographer, Indie Guru Praise and Critique Canon’s HD Video DSLR
I was fortunate enough to attend the second year of a panel at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas this week where Director of Photography Rodney Charters (24, Dollhouse) and Stu Maschwitz (co-founder of The Orphanage, blogs at ProLost.com) spoke about shooting a million dollar feature on a thousand dollar budget. The panel was moderated by Brian Valente, partner of Redrock Microsystems, LLC who specialize in anachromatic lens adapters for camcorders like the Canon HV20 and HV30.
Both panelists lauded the new HD Video /DSLR camera – the Canon 5D MK II for its “why didn’t they think of that before” adoption of HD video capabilities in a unit that inherently features a larger optics chip and shallow depth of field – in addition to the ability to use Canon or (with the right adapter) Nikon optics via pro lenses – something only possible before with lens adapters that run over a grand in themselves (from such companies as Redrock Micro).
The only gripe? The camera, in its present incarnation does not support 24p – shooting instead at 30P. Also, they 
both begged for more manual control – as of now, one has to do a “Nikon Lens Trick” in the vein of the olde Cell Phone Trick for the HV20 - the Nikon trick involves using a Nikon adapter half-screwed on to pull off some important manual adjustments.
I will be stopping by the Canon pavilion here at NAB 2009 to ask about any developments in the direction of a 5D MK IIa or MK III…
If you have any questions you would like me to ask, shout at me in reply to this post or on Twitter @ConstantChange
NAB 2009 – Taking Requests
After being invited to speak at Career Day for the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, I have made it an annual pilgrimage so that I can find out what the big guys are thinking long before the new technologies and operating methods come down the pipe. Hey, it’s free to register for the exhibition floor. I was fortunate enough in my first few years to have a delegate pass so that I was able to sit in on various panels and seminars on topics ranging from After Effects, the new 3D cinema movement, and podcasting to how to shoot professional video on a thousand dollar home camcorder and monetizing a blog.
There are some very cool cats attending and speaking at this year’s conference. Stu Maschwitz – creator of the Orphanage and author of the excellent (and must read book) the DV Rebel’s Toolkit, will be speaking on a panel hosted by Red Cameras about making a million dollar film on a thousand dollar budget. Also, Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Outliers will be there to expound on how to find topics for new books and ideally shed some insight on how he figured It all out.
More so than usual, this is a turning point year; the NAB is really working hard to figure out the irrevocable sea change going on and what broadband and ubiquitous internet-based streaming sites will mean to television. This year President Barack Obama signed legislation to delay the transition from analog to digital TV by four months. I remember two years ago when NAB was pushing hard to ensure that Americans understood how to apply for Government subsidized $40 vouchers towards their digital receivers. When I went to Radio Shack to submit my own I discovered that I didn’t need it after all – my Sony Bravia HDTV already had a digital tuner and the converter was for legacy TVs. This is something that NAB failed to get across. And I was there, hearing it from the horse’s mouth!
At any rate, this post is an invitation to readers of this blog to comment with ideas and questions they would like me to take to NAB 2009. If you can’t be there, might as well have me do the work for you, right? So send me your questions, concerns, gripes and curiosities, and I will do my best to get you answers at this year’s conference.
Thanks for reading and see you on the other side.
Vegas – ho!
