Video Cage Match Fight To The Death - 5D III vs BMCC!!

The video you've been waiting for - the shoot-out to end all shoot-outs, at least this month. The Canon 5D Mark III vs the Black Magic Cinema Camera. It might not quite be Rumble in the Jungle, but it what everyone wants to see.

Marco Solorio, who knows his stuff and opinion this Dude respects, puts both cameras through their paces on normal lighting, detail, low-light, depth-of-field, and chroma-key.

Watch and be amazed.

And our waiting list for the Cinema Camera is going to get a lot longer now...

And for those not on the waiting list, honestly don't expect to get a camera in 2012.

Philip Bloom Reviews BMCC

Video review of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Philip Bloom has done an extensive video review of the sort-of-shipping-but-not-really BlackMagic Cinema Camera. Well worth the 45 minutes it will take out of your life if you are interested in this camera (and based on our huge waiting list for the camera, a lot of you are).

Gear in Action: Canon XA10 and Zombies!!!

Letus Extreme Canon XA10 and Zombies from Radio Star Video on Vimeo.


Shot with a Letus Extreme Adapter Canon XA-10 Camera Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens Edited in FCPX

Yes There Really Was A Cat Video Film Festival

And this was the winning entry: Henri 2, Paw de Deux.

Gear In Action: Steadytracker Ultralite Stabilizer Goes To Hollywood

Learn more about the SteadyTracker here.

RIP Ye Olde Mailing List

When we started our business 11+ years ago, we started a sales newsletter letting our customers know what was on sale and what was new in the store. In the past couple of years we've seen participation in the list dwindle to almost nothing. More and more of our customers have told us they prefer to get information directly from our website or through social media platforms like FaceBook and Twitter. The onslaught of email spam and various scams also contributed to the death of our email list. A lot of people are just fed up with email and often they do the bulk of their internet surfing on a phone or PDA.

DV Dude is not a big fan of social media. He rarely even looks at our Twitter or FaceBook accounts. But the proof is in the pudding. People find us on social media and more of our new customers are coming from that world than ever before. From a purely practical standpoint, we're just too busy in the store to keep up with an email mailing list, website and social media. Trimming that commitment down allows us to keep our sales and stock updates more current and by the moment.

So we bid farewell to our old skool mailing list and enter the 21st Century.