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[vimeo]14534844[/vimeo] Here is a short video inspired by Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. I was dissatisfied with the first edit of Shadow Glance last year so have re-done it. This is a mixture of old 5D Mark II 30p footage and Panasonic GH1 24p footage and I like the re-edit much more now.

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Image from The Editman’s excellent blog The Canon 5D Mark II, 7D, 550D, 60D, Panasonic GH1, Sony A55, NEX VG10, AF100 and more cameras are included in our buyer’s guide and introduction to the world of DSLR video. Reviews have to be divided up and aimed at different kinds of people. It is no longer enough to give a score to a camera out of 100 and make blanket statements…

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Above: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the early days of Apple. The iPhone is beginning to eat into the profits of other companies in all kinds of markets – compact cameras, music players, and traditional mobile phones. EOSHD.com wonders whether the future of the camera is in fact the computer. The purist photographers, forum fanatics and Leica lovers are not going to like this one! Cameras are dead. The…

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What makes a troll tick? Trolls exist on article comment threads and internet forums around the world. They’re often rude, green and argumentative and show no constraint in their attacking nature. EOSHD.com explains how trolls operate and why the phenomena has come about so readily in the world of DSLRs.

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Canon have released the same camera 3 times in 12 months. But here, EOSHD.com explains why they are right (from a business perspective) to do so. In October 2009 Canon released the 7D. They had developed a brand new cutting edge sensor for the camera and spent a great deal of time and resources on it, plus the new AF system.

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I recently walked into an old junk store in Manchester (UK) and they had a bundle of CCTV equipment on a shelf. They also had some old c-mount TV lenses from Canon, two identical zooms. Usually zoom c-mount lenses vignette on the Panasonic GH1 and this does too – but remarkably, much more of the frame is covered than usual. What you see here are some actual full-frame GH1 shots…

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See my Canon 60D versus Panasonic GH2 review here If this is innovation, then I’m Britney Spears! Canon have released another very conservative derivative of the 7D in the form of the 60D with articulated screen. The company has managed to fill the tiny hole in the range between the 550D and 7D. The main distinguishing features of the 60D is a hinge, a wheel and the price.

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