It has been quite a while between posts, for that I do apologise.
It’s not because nothing has been happening either, just that things have incredibly busy. So as I see the schedule for this week looking a little on the quiet side, I have begun thinking about what I need to catch up on over here. There’s a couple of things I want to get stuck into on the site this week. . .
- The Canon TS-E 17mm F/4L – Why have I fallen in love with this Tilt Shift lens. . .
- Mooloolaba Triathlon Video Clip
- A more serious look at the Canon 5DMKII now that I’ve been using it solidly since it came in.
- House – The Season Finale was shot on a 5DMKII. Is it the validation of DSLR Cinematography many advocates hunger for? Is it a sign of the economic times? It’s hard to say. . .
- Macbook Pro Core i7 – First Impressions
That’s a pretty ambitious to do list, if I get through half of it, I’ll be happy! Perhaps the arrival of a new notebook with a battery power duration of over 15 minutes will be more conducive to writing blog posts after hours on the couch. Fingers crossed for that one! 
More coming very soon. . .Watch this space!
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Have you heard the interview with the DOP for House? It was more artistic desire and neccesity rather than production requirement. Oooh, did I stand on your post. Sorry. Delete if you need…
Cant talk myself into 5D, but hope yours is going well. BTW how water proof is it? Will it go under (water) for a few minutes?
Hey Dave,
Not sure I want to test the whole underwater aspect of the camera. Weathersealing is something I’ll be pleased to have if I cop an unexpected shower.
This is possible, I often have a tripod set up in the water at waist depth, if I come a cropper, I’ll definitely let you know!
And no, don’t worry, you didn’t stand on my post. I have read all the information about the place on their motivation to shoot on the 5DMKII, namely the DP, Gale’s, previous experience shooting a TVC on it led to her convincing Greg to give it a crack. My thoughts are whether dwindling production budgets in TV, internationally, will lead to these camera’s being adopted for reasons other than their image quality.
Being a network man yourself, you must have seen first hand, the radical cut backs made in commercial television production over the last 2 years. Do you believe it’s affected the overall quality of the content we’re seeing on the box these days or just the amount of quality content?
Christian
The easiest way to save money is to NOT employ people. Those people could be technical directors, craft specialists and producers with experience in television production. I’m not saying that happens where I work.
But a casual glance at free to air TV would certainly vindicate that summation. I think that it depends on the return to dollar spent. If you can get more sponsor dollars from higher ratings then you would invest more in that production to secure on-going advertising investment.
The question really is “At what point do people stop caring about quality?”, usually you would work back incrementally, cutting slowly until you bleed ratings points (ad cash) then stop. Unless you need to finance another ‘pet’ project on the network, then you target the fat, cashed-up program that is cruising on ratings easy-street and squeeeeeeze till theres nothing good left.
Sadly small programs, produced out of house also ssuffer this malaise as their commisioning budgets are screwed down too. More for less and dont worry about technical deliverables, we don’t really check that stuff anymore anyway.
I have seen an idea recently that says media consumers these days dont care about quality, they are happy to put up with just good enough. As long as it’s immediate, then crappy youtube quality is good enough. this sucks if you are trying to make TV the old way, you know with benchmarks etc.