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  2009
• 05/01/09

I first read about this camera about a month or so back on WIRED, and was quite impressed by the technical specifications. But after actually seeing what this camera is capable of – via a video brought to my attention by my good friend Spencer Sternberg — I’d have to say that ‘impressed’ is a slight understatement. Below is a video filmed by Guardian photographer Dan Chung entirely on a production Canon EOS5DmkII using manual focus. The film was shot an edited in about twelve hours directly after picking the camera up from a Beijing camera store and charging the battery.

Stunning.

Canon EOS5DmkII, One night in Beijing. from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

Melbourne based blog Now Now has put together a freely distributed magazine called WON. Distributed quarterly, the publication is available in most capital cities around the county. There is a complete distribution list here.

If you haven’t clicked the link in the previous post, I suggest you use this one! My friends Tin&Ed have recently updated their website which now houses an amazing array of work, including their ongoing work for Crumpler, which I have to say is some of my favorite (make sure you watch the Cinema Advert).

UnitedVisualArtist have been working with Battles to create the video for their single ‘Tonto’, and as you can guess, the result is amazing. Set in a disused Welsh slate mine, UVA created a LED installation that was synchronised with the audio to great effect. There are also some photo documentation of the making of the clip on their blog.

As promised, I’ve uploaded a few shots from my little trip to New Zealand last month. All these shot were taken on a Lomo LC-A, which I’ve had for about 7 years (and is still working well). I’ve been meaning to get a digital camera for a while now, but just haven’t got around to it, so for now I’ll have to keep getting a CD of images included with my prints. Although, I could always try this …

The gallery over at Now Now has been updated with some amazing work by Corey Arnold, who is a commercial fisherman and fine art photographer based in Portland, Oregon. I don’t know if it’s the effects of growing up in a coastal town, but I can almost smell the sea air in some of these shots …