Posted by Raphael on Jan 8, 2010 in Design Finds, Design News, Personal, Photography | 0 comments

San Francisco’s People. Canon 5DmkII 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

I was chatting with a good friend yesterday about how much fun I’ve had with my camera over the past year when we started discussing how all these DSLRs are now coming packed with video shooting capabilities.

Quite a few people had dismissed this as a gimmick, but I’ve been encountering more and more video professionals who are using DSLRs as viable tools for doing professional work. The ability to have a relatively small & low-cost method for filming video with HD and a wide range of lenses has kinda opened up the world of filmmaking to just about anyone.

It’s kind of made me want to try it myself. Alas, I bought my 50D which has no video shooting ability but it’ll be a matter of time before I’ll trade-up for a better body.

Case-in-point, this artist Phillip Bloom, shot the beautiful video above with a Canon DSLR and a 50mm lens. Sure, that’s about $4500 worth of equipment, but for a digital still camera to be able to shoot videos like this is pretty awesome!  (I want!)