This is an astonishing shift in the way many movies will be made in the future. Honestly. Now is James Cameron going to use dSLRs for shooting high budget films. Of course not. But what this capability brings to independent productions, local and regional studios and production houses actually shooting local projects to put bacon on the table, is the ability to produce imagery that is ever as clear and sharp and beautiful at those of top-tier productions. Principally because we can now use our Canon lens we are do pheaking proud of.
Having trained as a 16mm cinematographer and worked in the old days with a dark bag in my lap threading Eclair or Arriflex film magazines with Kodachrome film (for another five mintues of shooting), these developments just have me scratching my head. Today, all of us use our little point and shoot cameras or our cell phones, for gosh sakes, to make movies that rival the quality of the old super eight movies without the overhead of buying the film, processing the film and cutting the film into movies. My ability to pop an 8gig memory card in my 5D Mark II and be able to shoot with the clarity of equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars more is a real cost savings. Not only for me as the producer, but for my clients as well. Of course, there are all sorts of caveats, editing software, adding sound – good sound. But that is what rounds out a well balance studio, like here at Alpine Rose.
You can see a film shot with this capability here and also one how they did it.
Hopefully soon you will see a demo of our own, from the studio. Great Stuff.
UPDATE: The new firmware became available March 15 – V2.03.
UPDATE on the UPDATE: Canon released on the 19th, V2.04, as a bug fix to an audio issue discovered when in movie mode and using the Custom Functions.