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Converge have relaunched their website, with tons of fresh DSLR video related content. Yours truly is extremely honoured to become a guest blogger for Converge. You can read why I am so excited about DSLRs here.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIJE3T-WCc[/youtube] Important note: YouTube has 3D support but not in the above embed. You need to go to the YouTube page for the video here, and check the box for 3D. You will see a few options, compatible with different kinds of display. Panasonic seem to be very good at hiding their best features. First AF tracking was removed from the final production firmware, presumably to be fixed and added…

[vimeo]17733691[/vimeo] I’ve been getting to grips with the 60D properly for the first time this weekend, here is what I think of it.

Once upon a time – from the Bronze age onwards, humans used little known exotic materials like metal and leather to make tools.

[vimeo]17542556[/vimeo] Pixel peeping is such a fallacy, because close inspection of footage on a computer does DSLRs such an injustice. It is not how video is meant to be viewed.

Those Hong Kong manufacturers have impeccable timing. Just as Panasonic seizes the DSLR video crown from Canon – out comes the best adapter for Canon lenses on the GH2 yet seen. For the first time this one allows you to control the aperture and it costs $125.

[vimeo]17497347[/vimeo] If you play the video as-is here, streaming from Vimeo you will see very little difference because huge amount of noise is smeared away by Vimeo’s compression. Please download the video. EOSHD Recommended – Purchase Neat Video Along with peace on earth, the most sought after achievement for DSLR consumers is clean ISO 3200. If you put all the threads written about ISO noise on internet forums together…

[vimeo]17464042[/vimeo] Above – Panasonic GH2 is ahead but for how long? High ISO test by Filippo Chiesa Nikon and Panasonic have inched past Canon in the image quality battle in 2010 with two great updates.