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DSLR Vide New Revolution in Haiti

Posted on April 2nd, 2010 Written on michael's blog

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Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage from Khalid Mohtaseb on Vimeo.

Videojournalist Khalid Mohtaseb covers the Haiti earthquake with a 5dmkII

DSLR Newshooter is a fantastic online resource for the revolution in 35mm cameras moving to video news production.

Mohtaseb's work is stunning, as is his story.

Clearly, the working news VJ has an enormous opportunity to greatly expand their video power in the field.

We used to say 'keep it in wide and never touch the zoom'. This was because of the rapid collapse of the depth of field in most small camcorders.Â They are cheap and good but the price you pay was in the lensing.

Now, Canon and Nikon, makers of great lenses, are marrying their lens capability, so well known for stills, to video.

All of this was shot with the Canon 5D Mark II

Tags : Canon , Khalid , Mohtaseb

Category : new careers in video , Technology , Cameras , Video Journalists

3 comment(s)

Azizabh
5:06 pm Saturday
May 22, 2010

Amazingly done...thank you so much for sharing it with us.

luishernandez
11:50 pm Tuesday
Apr 6, 2010

WOW! its a very beautifully shot piece of news.

cliffetzel
4:50 pm Friday
Apr 2, 2010

Doesn't matter what it was shot with - it's a mish mash of content shot with a hybrid DSLR, a slider and heavily manipulated with Magic Bullet in post. What part of this provides any true information? There's no audio narrative, no compelling beginning, middle or ending arc. Nada. And this is being called a documentary? Instead of rehashing what's already been said, there's a discussion back and forth on Ron Dawson's blog on this topic at http://bit.ly/djJrTm