‘Hugo’ director Martin Scorsese, cast explain the advantages of shooting movies in 3D (video)
We’ll have to wait until this weekend to find out if Martin Scorsese’s Hugo takes home any hardware from the Academy Awards, but we’ve got an early preview of one the Blu-ray 3D release’s special features right here. Press play to hear the director explain why 3D affects the storytelling by bringing in qualities usually found in the theater to film, as well as comments from actors Christopher Lee and Sascha Baron Cohen. Scorsese explains “We see in 3D, we see in space… most of us do. Space is part of our lives. It means something. I think, for the individual person who has a vision of telling a story through images, how that person uses space — that extra element, that extra dimension — to tell a story is very, very important.” Adapted from a book inspired by filmmaker Georges Méliès, the movie hits stores February 28th — check out the trailer after the break.
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Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 ISO 204,800 shooting hands-on (video)
With mirrorless cameras offering high-resolution APS-C sensors and consecutive shooting speeds of up to 10 frames-per-second, what’s left to make a $6,000 full-frame DSLR a compelling purchase, especially for amateur photographers? Low-light performance, for one — the Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 are both capable of capturing images at up to ISO 204,800, letting you snap sharp photos in even the dimmest of lighting conditions. The benefits of a top sensitivity of ISO 204,800 are significant — jumping from one ISO to the next doubles your shutter speed. So an exposure of f/2.8 at 1/2 second at ISO 400 becomes 1/4th at ISO 800, 1/15th at ISO 3200, 1/60th at ISO 12,800, 1/250th at ISO 51,200 and a whopping 1/1000th at ISO 204,800 — fast enough to freeze a speeding car.
Both Canon and Nikon have yet to allow us to take away samples shot with the 1D X or D4 — the companies even taped CF card slots shut to prevent show attendees from slipping their own card in — but we were still able to get a fairly good idea of high-ISO performance from reviewing images on the built-in LCDs. At the cameras’ top sensitivity of ISO 204,800, noise was visible even during a full image preview. Zooming into the image revealed significant noise, as expected. However, within each camera’s native range of ISO 100 to 25,600, noise was barely an issue at all. Both cameras are still pre-production samples at this point, so we’ll need to wait for production models to make their way out before we can capture our own samples, but based on what we saw when reviewing ISO 204,800 images on the built-in LCDs, that incredible top-ISO setting may actually be usable. Scroll on through the gallery below to preview some top sensitivity shots on the Canon EOS-1D X (camera poster) and the Nikon D4 (Japanese model), and join us past the break for an even closer look in our video hands-on.
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Fisker’s shooting brake Surf EV to make waves at Frankfurt
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