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More footage from the Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Yet again Blackmagic posts some more tease footage for their Cinema Camera.

Unfortunately the clip cannot be embedded or downloaded and comes with lots of vimeo compression which annoys us and others. Hopefully we will have unlimited access after a timely release of the device.

Click on the image above to jump to the video. The footage looks pretty good, crisp and clean. A clip that will surely raise a lot of attention again. Let’s hope our orders come in soon so we can get some first hand in-depth looks and inspect some real world footage.

via EOSHD

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CLEAN HDMI OUT on Canon T4i / 650D [UPDATE: problems]

Johnnie Behiri just confirmed that the Canon T4i seems to be Canon’s first HDSLR camera that has a clean hdmi-out feed!

Is it usable?
That’s an important question. Initial testing was done with an Atomos Ninja 1 and the footage had some issues. The signal is clean, but further testing has to be done to see if the 650D’s signal is actually usable for external recording.

Canon & Atomos have been contacted to make sure they can work out any issues here. We’ve seen a similar situation before when the Nikon D800 & Atomos Ninja combination posed some challenges that have now been resolved.
A source of the problem could also be the fact that the camera used was a beta model.

What does it mean?
Up until this day all Canon HDSLR cameras had overlays within the hdmi signal that could not be removed making an external recording impossible. The signal coming from the beta Canon T4i / 650D tested is clean.

In theory having a clean signal means that you can record the video feed to an external device like the Atomos Ninja and get a ready to edit, quality encoded Apple ProRes file.

The signal from the beta 650D seems to be routed to the hdmi port before it is being compressed. There are definitely less compression artifacts in the footage recorded on the Ninja than in the h.264 internally compressed files.

The Canon Rebel T4i / 650D kit with the 18-55 STM lens is still in stock at B&H. If any of you can do further testing please let us know the details.

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Nikon D4 – Who’s the cleanest of them all? The D4′s 2.7x crop mode

Mirrors are not the only thing an HDSLR shooter doesn’t need. Here’s a reason to think differently about depth of field.

You can download the file and watch it in full quality.

Over the last months Johnnie Behiri used the Nikon’s new flagship HDSLR, the D4, to shoot this image video about the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

While some few shots were done on other HDSLR’s the majority came from the D4 and in particular from the D4′s 2.7x crop mode.

What is that mode?
It only uses a 1920×1080 pixels crop of the sensor. The result is much more depth of field (less blurry background) but also a very crisp, moire and aliasing free image.

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