I have read on 2 seperate site this week that Canon is rumoured to be making the 1DSIV with Raw video. Wow! That would seal the deal for Canon as the premier small camera platform. The biggest problem I have with the 5D is the h.264 compression. We all deal with it, but to have [...]
Archive | February, 2010
Fresco Painting/Walter Murch/The 5Dll
There is a wonderful part in Walter Murch’s book In the Blink of an Eye (written 1999), where he is discussing the future of cinema. He makes the prescent comparison of between change from fresco painting to oil painting to the then current state of cinema and what he was foreseeing as the future of [...]
Steadycam Merlin with Canon 5Dll or 7D
After a few unsuccessful tries at getting my Merlin/7D/Zeiss 12 combo balanced, I went out to visit the. experts at Steadycam USA in Glendale. Incredibly helpful nice folks out there. Dan spent an hour and a half with me. He balanced the rig in 5 minutes, then gave me a tutorial on how to move [...]
About
David Harry Stewart is a photographer and director. He comes from a small town in western New York. He started taking pictures at the age of 8, first with a plastic Kodak 126, then a Polaroid Swinger. He did his first national ad campaign at age 23, then moved on to Paris to work for fashion magazines. Returning to New York he has a successful and award winning career, working for magazines like Interview, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. Agency work includes Saatchi, Deutsch, BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Ogilivy, for clients such as American Express, Nike, Coke, Corona and Bank of America. Awards include Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, Photo District News, The Living Photograph Motion Awards, and American Photography. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York.
