Stay away from counterfeit products: Straight talk with Vincent Laforet in this episode of ON THE GO.  Vincent Laforet and Nino Leitner “On the Go” for cinema5D. “Innovation is being destroyed” In this year’s first episode of our car talk show ON THE GO, I talked to commercial director / photographer and DSLR pioneer Vincent Laforet about the state of the industry. Vincent identified a dire state in gear manufacturing, with more and more innovative products being ripped off by (mainly) Asian counterfeit products. To make matters worse, some of those clone companies aren’t small operations, they are becoming huge international players. What’s left for the innovators is to go to court, which isn’t easy – not even having expensive patents necessarily protects you from counterfeiters, if you don’t have the financial resources to fight against them in international courts. And even if you do, particularly Chinese companies are still often hard to grasp legally from Western countries. We talked in particular about a high-profile clone of the MoVi Pro which has been announced just before NAB, which upset Vincent in particular as he was the person who launched the MoVi M10 together with his friends from Freefly a couple of years ago. Check back next week for another episode with Vincent Laforet, in which he will talk about how it is to shoot commercials for Apple, where his career is moving and where he expects things will go in the coming years for him and the industry. Do you care if you have “the original” of a product if it works better or is price all that matters to you? Let us know in the comments below! Please visit our sponsors’ websites to keep new episodes of ON THE GO coming! Watch previous episodes of ON THE GO (& On the Couch) by clicking here. Visit our Vimeo and YouTube playlists, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!

Masters In Motion was three day educational and networking event held at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas. The conference included three days seminars by Tom Guilmette, Joe Simon, Vincent Laforet, Philip Bloom, Tyler Ginter, Khalid Mohtaseb, Jonathon Bregel and Adam Forgione. On Tuesday, attendees were treated to a live demonstration of the powers of the Phantom Flex camera by none other than Vincent Laforet. After Laforet drove the camera and staff to the limit, he opened the floor up for questions, and as you might imagine, the topic on everyone’s mind was his short film Mobius produced with the Canon C300. Masters In Motion was produced by Cristina Valdiviazo and Jon Connor of Shoot Edit Learn in conjunction with Kessler Crane. If you weren’t able to attend, check out a day by day chronology of all the events at www.kessleru.com  

Dave forwarded this very well done funny video he made about the mark 3 buzz. From Dave Dougdale’s website: Chase Jarvis, Shane Hurlbut, Philip Bloom and Vincent LaForet have awesome blogs, if you are not already following these industry leaders you should definitely start soon. I sent all of them emails days before I released this video to see if it was OK to use their footage and I enjoyed Philip Bloom’s response of, “Nice job Dave! Toilet is other way…”. […] It’s my guess that Canon will announce the new 5D Mark III on Oct. 26 in NYC. Or perhaps Canon will release it at the Hollywood effect on Nov. 3. Rumor has it that there will not be a 5D mark III as of this year, but instead an EOS 1D is expected (tomorrow Oct 18th) and a Canon large sensor video camera by Nov 3rd.