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Paris In 2,000 Photos And 100 Hours

April 6, 2011 by Short Film

This is awesome. It’s not a DSLR film, I know, but it was made with a camera (a Nikon D90, since you ask) and it’s just a beautiful, gorgeous piece of work.

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Nikon’s New DSLR Aimed Right At Family Filmmakers

April 5, 2011 by News, Opinion

Nikon has released its newest camera body, the D5100. It’s small, light, cheap, and aimed squarely at keen amateurs.

It’s also, I think, a direct pitch at family filmmakers who want to experiment with DSLR filmmaking but don’t want to splash out a lot of money on kit.

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Interview: Adam Gichie

March 29, 2011 by News

Last year we posted a short clip we found on Vimeo of memorial flags waving in the breeze.

That post inspired the video’s creator, Englishman Adam Gichie, to take his filmmaking work a little more seriously. He’s set up a professional website and produced this fun time-lapse film that uses a clever hack: to calibrate movements on a glidetrack, Gichie used a paper tape measure from Ikea.

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Found on Vimeo: Leave

March 22, 2011 by Short Film

I have no idea what’s going on here, but I like the colors, the low angles, and the surprise ending with added dinosaurs. The world needs more dinosaur films.

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Found on Vimeo: A Cute Love Story Short

March 21, 2011 by Short Film

Here’s a fun little three-minute love story called RED, shot in the English town of Nottingham (a place not famous for romance).

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Dan Chung shooting the tsunami aftermath

March 17, 2011 by News

Dan Chung took a Canon 600D and a 5DmkII to the devastated town of Shintona in Japan, and shot this emotionally-charged piece of reportage for The Guardian.

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