Director Greg Yaitanes
The Canon 5D is a professional-level DSLR camera that also shoots 1920×1080 HD video to a
35mm-sized 21.1 megapixel sensor. It costs around $3500 for the body and a decent lens, and has become the B-camera staple of forward thinking cinematographers throughout the film and television industry. Shane Hurlbut, ASC (Terminator: Salvation) and Rodney Charters, ASC (24)
are two of the camera’s biggest supporters, and Charters even tweeted
about shooting season nine of 24 entirely with the 5D before it got
cancelled. Also, SNL‘s new title sequence was shot with the 5D and the Canon 7D.
This is kind of a big deal because for the past six seasons, [H]ouse was shot in Super35. Next to anamorphic, you can’t get more detail out of a standard-sized film format. This just goes to show what kind of faith Yaitanes and cinematographer Gale Tattersall have in the digital camera.
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A lot of people thought the RED would revolutionize the film industry
allowing filmmakers with small budgets to give their films a big-budget
look. What RED did was pave the way for serious film-style digital cameras.
Canon surprised everyone (including themselves) with the diminutive but
impressive (and affordable!) 5D. It just goes to show that revolutions like this are hard to plan, but if you
needed any further proof of the democratization of the film industry,
this is it.
Follow @GregYaitanes on Twitter for more information. The [H]ouse season six finale airs May 17th.
While you’re here, check out The Last 3 Minutes, shot with the Canon
12 comments
This DSLRs are amazing. I want one so much.
I hear Christian Bale hates it.
He's been quoted saying "The 5D mk 2 is fucking amateur" and further stated that he wont be working with them in the foreseeable future.
Now that cameras are cheap, I can be a movie director too!
Interesting stuff. Can we get more articles like this please?
Do you think you can turn this into a regular column in the future?
@Filmoholic thanks, I'd like to do this kind of thing more often. Keep a lookout for more!
These cameras are a neat novelty for video, but they're really meant to be used as stills cameras. To achieve video framerates the cameras use line-skipping and try to interpolate the missing data resulting in fairly low resolution images with quite a lot of artifacting. Doesn't make them unusable, but you're probably not going to get around that problem with a DSLR anytime soon.
Some new cameras have been unveiled at NAB which sort of put S35 sized sensors in a camcorder body with a stills lens-mount on the front. Might want to wait and see how that trend turns out..
Shane Hurlbut is a supporter of the 5D MK2?
Dammit. . .TheMince beat me to it.
Look, I'm not saying this camera isn't nice, and it definitely has some neat features, but if we're talking about feature-level filmmaking it's not even in the same *league* as the Red. This is a camcorder with very good image quality. Red One is a 35mm Arri-class film camera. It's a whole different class of product.
i'm not saying there's a comparison between the two from a performance standpoint. try going back and rereading the article.
Canon's photo-camera and video-camera divisions operate and develop independently from each other, with little communication. When the photo division came out with this camera (which essentially does what a MUCH more expensive video camera does for a fraction of the price – and it's JUST AS GOOD as the Red), the video division was PISSED. It's kinda hilarious actually, showing how this technology isn't nearly as prohibitively expensive as it appears to be.
What don't you fuckin' understand?
Good article, keep em comin!
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