Here is the movie Reverie, by Vincent Laforet, the Pulitzer prize winning photographer. It was created with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which many of you know by now as Canon’s latest digital SLR camera. The crazy part of this project is that the footage looks much better than most other cameras in the semi-pro price range, and this isn’t even a video camera! The sharpness, focus, and color are all excellent (especially since this is the RAW footage, it hasn’t even been through DI yet).
Learn more about Vincent Laforet and see his photographs by reading this interview by Canon. Be sure to read more about the Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital camera here at DP Review. I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of this camera and its footage in the very near future.
Seeing the results of Vincent Laforet’s film shot with a pre-production model of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II gets me very excited about the unpredictability and inventiveness of our industry. We must be near the verge of quality-inducing breakdown of the basic (and proper) video creation process. Watch the stunning Digital SLR footage here yourselves:
We will be reading, writing, and interacting with this new video technology for quite a while. I think I know where to invest my next photographic equipment purchase…view it while you still can, as Canon has already served an estimated 103 terabytes over the course of 6 days.
