Canon 5D Mark II and MacBook Pro Make Excellent Team
9:19 am, January 13th, 2009, Dean Putney
If you’re looking for a compact, efficient solution to shooting and editing high definition video, you’d probably be very interested in Florent Porta’s work with the new Canon 5D Mark II and a Macbook Pro. The video above (best appreciated at the Vimeo page or at Dailymotion) was shot in three days and edited in two. This was released shortly after the last Macbook/Macbook Pro announcement, so it likely wasn’t on the latest Macbook Pro.
With the significant upgrade of the new Macbooks and the Canon 5D bringing fantastic high quality photo and video to consumers, a few thousand dollars certainly goes a lot farther and a lot lighter than other shooting and editing solutions. Some suggest that tethering for video might even work, but there doesn’t seem to be any real solid confirmation on that.
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I think you probably mean a few thousand for the camera and another couple thousand for the MBP. That’s a LOT of cash to drop.
joel, on January 13th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Still beats the ten to twenty thousand you’d put down on a pro HD video camera, and lenses are significantly cheaper for the SLRs than video cameras. There are a lot of great options out there.
Dean Putney, on January 13th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
yeah and you probably already have a macbook (pro?) and its still a camera, if your considering a normal “budget” SLR thats still gona be $1000 just for pictures, this way for $1000 to $1500 extra you get a wwaaaayy better camera + a high definition video camera
still not cheap cheap – but considering what you already have, may be already considering and its dual functionality, i think its surly the cheapest (and in some regards on of the best) options for HD
James Churchman, on January 14th, 2009 at 12:17 pm