Sebastian Wiegärtner, BVK
In Personal Blog

BTS: Paris Fashion Week for Wolfgang Joop

Last week I was in Paris. Director Frank Suffert booked me for a job for Wolfgang Joop at Paris Fashion Week. It was very interesting to see how such a show works. After the job was done I organized an HDSLR Meetup at the Louvre in Paris. Thanks to all for coming! They helped me out at my night shoot in Paris and two of them filmed me working. Thank you so much! You have to watch the videos. By the way: I’m not a smoker, sometimes I smoke a cigarette, but not every day, only one time in a month. 😉 Paris HDSLR Meetup 12 Oct. 2010 from Michel Luczak. My two days at Paris Fashion Week: HDSLR Meetup in Paris:

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In Personal Blog

Bullet time Matrix effect with 52 Canon 550D’s / T2i’s

Timeslice Films produced a great commercial for the surf company RipCurl. They used 52 Canon 550D’s / T2i’s to create a bullet time effect. Perhaps you remember this effect, which became popular in the movie “Matrix”. It’s amazing. Please also watch the BTS video! Very interesting. The film: Behind the scenes: Press-Release: “In collaboration with Timeslice Films, Rip Curl took on an ambitious bullet-time campaign shoot in Malaysia’s Sunway Lagoon Wavepool with lead surfers Mick Fanning, Stephanie Gilmore, Owen Wright and Matt Wilkinson.

The revolutionary campaign captures surfing in a way never seen before, with the final visuals baring more resemblance to a fight scene from the famous Matrix movies than a promotional surfing video.

The two-day rental of Sunway Lagoon Wavepool allowed Rip Curl and Timeslice to operate in a more stable environment than the open ocean offers. The Rip Curl surfers were repeatedly towed into the machine-controlled waves by Jetski and their operational space was determined by the 52-camera rig set up in the pool.”

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In Personal Blog

Photos and Videos of my Cologne HDSLR Meetup

I haven’t got time to publish all the stuff of my Cologne HDSLR Meetup yet. For the last four weeks I travelled to many shoots, workshops and fair trades (Zurich for a Corporate Film, Paris Fashion Week for Wolfgang Joop, Photokina in Cologne, Cinec in Munich, Workshop in Dresden, Palma de Mallorca HDSLR Masterclass). Today is Sunday and I have time. Yes, incredible!! 😉 Thanks to Thomas Sausen for the funny interview! The Great HDSLR meet up Cologne 2010 from JAK Pikey on Vimeo. HDSLR Meetup Cologne (iPhone 4) from Thomas Sausen on Vimeo.

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Sebastian Wiegärtner, BVK
In Personal Blog

My brother’s second film with an HDSLR

My brother Daniel bought a Canon 550D a few months ago. He shot an image-film for his university and a private project about a trip to a lake in southern bavaria. I like it, because it’s one of his first films and he is really talented, only the color correction is a little bit to strong in some moments (especially the skin tones). All shots are handheld without any stabilizer. Check out his Vimeo profile! Used gear: Canon 550D Canon 50mm 1.8 II

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In Personal Blog

The great Paris HDSLR Meetup at Louvre pyramid

UPDATE: Please read my tweets on twitter for latest news of my HDSLR Meetup in Paris. I have a project at Paris Fashion Week in a few days. After my job is done, we will have a big meetup in Paris.The meetup will happen at the impressive Louvre pyramid on October 5th at 8:30 PM MESZ. Please bring some of your gear with you, we will share our knowledge and experiences with different products each other. I will bring many stuff to this meetup, you’ll be able to test it and ask me everything you want to know about HDSLR filmmaking! But the most important part of this meetup: We will get to know each other and have fun! After meetup we will go into a bar and have a few drinks and great conversations together. Hope we meet each other there dude! If you are on twitter please tweet this line to inform all your followers: Come to the great Paris HDSLR Meetup on October 5th, 8:30 pm at the Louvre pyramid. Please RT! http://bit.ly/beOClT Facebook: If you are on facebook you can sign up for the HDSLR Meetup in Paris right here. Please send invitations to your friends.

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In Personal Blog

My main camera setup for a corporate film shoot

This is my main camera setup for an upcoming corporate film shoot this Thursday and next Tuesday in Zurich, Switzerland. I will use a Canon 7D and a Canon 5D Mark II. Click on the pictures for more details. If you have any questions about the gear you can post a comment at the bottom of this page. My main rig on a Manfrotto 504 Head. A Denz Canon 7D evo PL54 with Carl Zeiss Compact Primes. The Genus Elite Mattebox is perfect for the Zeiss Compact Primes. Denz Mini Follow Focus with Crank. Manfrotto 546GBK legs. Zoom H4N with Sennheiser Wireless EW 112p. Perfect for interviews! Carl Zeiss Compact Prime PL 35 mm. Denz Support System with Carbon rods.

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In News

Panasonic’s GH2 announced with 3D interchangeable lens

Panasonic announced the new Panasonic Lumix GH2 at Photokina in Cologne. You can mount the first interchangeable 3D lens (12,5 mm) on it. It hast two optical systems installed within the diameter of the lens mount, which creates stereo images (left and right) and processed with a 3D image processing system. I don’t like 3D, but it seems to be a big hype and everybody wants it! The Panasonic Lumix GH2 will ship in black and silver just before christmas. The body costs $ 899.95, the 14-42mm $ 999.95 and the 14-140mm bundle $ 1.499.95. Here are the specs: 16 Megapixel Live MOS sensor SD / SDHC / SDXC memory card slot Micro Four Thirds mount 23 points of auto focus tracking face detection 1080/24p at 24Mbps (the highest in AVCHD format) and 1080/60i Mini HDMI output with no quality lost 3-inch rear LCD hot shoe mount ISO 160 to 12800

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In News

Nikon is in the game now! Welcome Nikon D7000!

I’m a little bit late with this announcement on my blog, but perhaps you haven’t heard about it yet! Nikon unveiled the D7000, which has full manual video control and 1080p. Nikon is now in the HDSLR game. A few weeks ago I thought Nikon is already a competitor for Canon, after they announced the D3000, but this camera has no manual iso control. This is really disappointing. It seems to offer only to shoot 24p in 1080p with the new Nikon D7000. The european market needs 25p, but this is only possible in 720p. Recording in 50p or 60p like Canon 7D, 550D and 60D is not possible. Here are the specs of the Nikon D7000: 16.2 megapixels with new Nikon DX-format CMOS sensor (4,928 x 3,264 pixels) ISO sensitivity range from 100 to 6400 at normal setting; can be raised to ISO 25600 Full HD (1080p) D-Movie H.264/mpeg-4 video compression Makes .mov files at 24fps in 1080 (30fps at 720HD) Movie has built in mono, but stereo sound recording capability with optional external mic via stereo mini jack 20 minute movie recording times High durability magnesium alloy body (dust and water resistant) 6 frames per second still image capture 9,…

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Sebastian Wiegärtner, BVK
In Workshops

Behind the scenes: HDSLR Workshop in Dresden

Last friday I was in Dresden for an HDSLR workshop. The guys from “Knitterfisch” organized the workshop and it was a big pleasure for me to be their host. Many talented guys there and I had a great time in Dresden. I teached them how to work with DSLR cameras in video mode (advantages, disadvantages, picture settings, external sound, multicam recording and much more). I took some photos of this workshop. By the way: You can sign up for my upcoming HDSLR workshops if you are interested. I also can be booked for individual workshops. Just send me an email to workshop (at) wiegaertnerfilms.com.

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