Canon 7D

Jamie Stuart recently purchased a Canon 7D (see our recent interview with Joshua and Benny Safdie for his work) and has been building some homemade gear. Check out this video demonstrating his DIY portable slider — and also the camera’s awesome night shooting capabilities.

You can also download a Quicktime here.

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ZACUTO’S DSLR SHOOTOUT

By Scott Macaulay

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Zacuto, which rents HD cameras and DSLR camera accessories, gathered professional DPs and colorists for a “DSRL Shootout.” They compared the Canon 7D, 5D Mark 2, ID, the Panasonic GH1 and Nikon D3s and compared them to footage shot on Kodak and Fuji stock. The results were evaluated by a range of DPs, including indie cinematographers and ASC members, at AFI and Skywalker Ranch. The results are pretty astonishing. The first episode, a 35-minute piece in which all of these camera’s latitude are examined, is up but it’s not embeddable. See it at the link above. The trailer, however, is below.

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