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01.11.09Dear Canon, please opensource your firmwareI just updated the firmware on my new 5D Mark II. The firmware is the operating system in my camera. The software that decides how the menus on the screen should look, what the buttons do, and basically everything about how my camera handles the data from the CMOS that sits in there, collecting light when I snap images. I didn't get any extra functionality, but two issues that I never had problems with are now fixed. Yes, it works fine. But we want more functionality. We want 25p and manual controls for video recording. And in this world of software it ...
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01.07.09Making miniatures of your imagesTilt-shift miniature faking has been around for a while. But I hadn't seen Tiltshiftmaker before. And decided to give it a go. It's a web site where you can upload an image or give it the URL of an image. Then it adds a simple blur effect and adjust the color to make the illusion of a miniature model. Works pretty good. The miniature: The original: Pretty cool. And by the way. The image is from Ljubljana in Slovenia. Fantastic city. And if you want to do it with photoshop you can try one of the many tutorials out there.
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01.01.09Happy new year!Welcome to a whole lot of new readers and followers on Twitter. Due to the overwhelming success of my video showing 2008 in a couple of seconds. So far the video has been viewed 1,087,240 times on YouTube. 10,312 ratings and 9,579 comments. On Vimeo it has 314,193 views. It has been aired at ABC in San Francisco and been featured on countless web sites and blogs. I'll get back to the details about that video later. I'm learning a lot by following how it spreads through the net, what people comment about, how people use it an so on. ...
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12.27.08One year worth of images give some amazing videosUpdate: I made three new videos of 2009 with my 5D Mark II last year. One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. So far I've made two videos of the images I describe in this article. The one here at the top and another two minutes version. Read on to learn how I did this, to see the other video and to download the videos and images in high quality. And if you want to watch this video here at the top in HD quality you have to click through to Vimeo. The story Back in 2005 I did an experiment shooting ...
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12.21.08How wide is wide?About as wide as this: Link to a bigger version of the image. I snapped the same image with the following lenses: Canon 15 mm f2.8 fisheye Canon 16-35 mm f2.8 L USM II @16mm Canon 24 mm f1.4 L USM II And marked the reach of the different lenses on the 15 mm image. But I also wanted to see how a Sigma 8 mm circular fisheye did: Link to a bigger version of the image. So now you know. That's the difference between these different lenses on a Canon 5D MkII fullframe camera. And if you don't like the distortion of the fisheye you can remove ...