Watch Vincent Laforet’s Reverie if you have a minute today. This film was shot with a DSLR, the Canon EOS 5D MkII. Unbelievable quality from this camera. Also of interest to a certain subset, the making of video.
It produces the best video in low light that I’ve ever seen – at 1080p. A top commercial film editor who who regularly edits RED camera footage – and has seen the raw footage from the 5D MKII – says the 5D MKII is “far superior to the RED camera” in terms of low light performance…
[...] I was playing with the body with the lens off tonight, and could see that one of the bits of the shutter was sticking about 3/4 of the way down. [...]