HD Video and 21.1 Megapixel Photography? YES PLEASE!

SILENCE PLEASE!
I am a photography professional with the ability to stun audiences in HD video. I inspire, I motivate, I encourage, and I turn passion and imagination into a reality. I take photography and film making to a whole new plane with a 21.1-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor and a DIGIC 4 Image Processor. Who am I you ask? I am a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Introducing the most innovative camera from Canon to date. This pristine beauty will without a doubt turn your enthusiasm for photography and video into a love affair. The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is a camera which beginners and professionals will use with sheer joy. This camera can be as simple as a point and shoot for both HD Video and Digital Photography, or you can dial in your exact specifications to capture an absolutely breathtaking image for your professional video or photographic career. The EOS 5D Mark II has a 21.1-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with DIGIC 4 Image Processor, an ISO Range of 100-6400 (expandable to ISO L: 50, H1: 12800 and H2: 25600), plus EOS technologies like Auto Lighting Optimizer and Peripheral Illumination Correction. This camera supports Live View shooting, Live View HD videos, and much more. It has 9 AF points plus 6 AF assist points, a 3.0-inch Clear View LCD (920,000 dots/VGA), a new 98% coverage viewfinder, and it can shoot up to 3.9 fps. The EOS 5D Mark II also captures full HD Video at 1920 x 1080 resolution for up to 4GB per clip! Full-frame shooters and Video professionals, you may now stand and applaud.

I would highly recommend this camera to anyone that is interested in using both HD Video and Digital Photography. It is a jack of all trades and using the word "Professional" is an understatement. Don't let the $2,500 price tag scare you, it is well worth it. If this ruggedly beautiful, multi tasking prodigy is used in a professional manner, the camera will pay for itself within the first couple of months.

Video shot with the new Canon EOS 5d Mark II

At last! The final images from 2007 and 2008 arrive.

Rolls #2 and #3 finally arrived today! I was quite pleased with what I found inside those envelopes. All of these photos were taken between 2007 and 2008 in various places. These locations range from Denver Colorado, Lake Powell Utah, and Madison Wisconsin. These were all taken with my most cherished possession, the Holga 120CFN. Here are a few of my favorite photographs from the last two rolls. Enjoy!

Bringing in the New Year with 2007?

Okay so here's the scoop. I being the procrastinator that I am, had 3 rolls of film hanging around in my fridge for almost 2 years. Remember those "masterfully shot rolls" of 120 film that I talked about getting developed in my first blog from December? Well the rolls are finally processed and starting to arrive! Here's two of my favorites from roll #1


All of the photographs from roll #1 were taken in Madison Wisconsin in August of 2007 on my Holga 120 CFN. A group of my friends from college headed out on a 16 hour driving adventure to this destination. The occasion was a once in a life time experience...a Reggae Festival. Every year my friend Adam has an enormous farm party which hundreds of people attend. 2007's farm party was a reggae festival with live reggae bands, a pig roast, games, and countless hours of entertainment. It is something I look forward to doing every summer from here on out.

Joy to the world, the Ricoh XR-7 has come!

'MERRY CHRISTMAS'
Tis the season for...35mm love? Yes in fact it is, or at least it was in my case. I arose on this snowy Christmas morning with my eyes full of sleep not knowing what a joyous occasion I was yet to behold. Under the slightly over decorated and highly electrifying tree was a package that stood out amongst the rest. This package was not from around here. No. This package has seen many miles and many faces over the past few days, travelling from its origin on the east coast all the way to this mid west town of Ogden Utah. A package sent from my Grandfather. As the present catches my eye from under the tree, I reach out and snatch it up as quickly as possible tearing away at it. Shreds of paper fly through the air as if it is some sort of Christmas confetti until I am satisfied with the unveiling. I am a kid again. I pop open the top and what do I see? 35mm love. My Grandfather has sent me his vintage 1982 Ricoh XR-7 and enough accessories to make even the most prideful photographer smile from ear to ear. A diamond in the rough.

What is a Ricoh XR-7?

What isn't a Ricoh XR-7 is a more appropriate question to ask. The XR-7 is not your everyday auto focusing point and shoot. It is not a matrix metering, 12.3 mega pixel, 8 FPS digital conformist. It however, is a top end 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera born in Japan in 1982. It has Aperture Priority and manual shooting modes. This beauty has from 16 to 1/1000 electric controlled shutter speeds, a useful depth of field preview, multiple exposure controls, an electronic self timer, and an interesting little button which is supposed to prevent over exposure from bright back grounds. It supports a dedicated flash, has a F stop and shutter speed readout in the viewfinder, encompasses a center weighted exposure meter, and has the ever popular K mount for lenses. This rugged bad boy is made primarily of metal and has a "5 year rechargable" silver oxide cell.

Believe me, with the Ricoh XR-7 you will achieve pure 35mm Nirvana and the camera itself will last the true test of time.