Three of the raw files from the prototype Canon EOS 5D MKII – files straight out of the camera – that were used in “Reverie” short film – are now available for download to your hard drives. (*Please Read Important Note Below for SPECIFIC LIMITATIONS OF USE.)

To access these go to this following link here.

You will need the latest Quicktime player to view these – and many of you may have a hard time playing these at full resolution without top of the line systems – given the heavy amount of 30 fps 1920 x 1080 pixel data that is contained within each file.

UPDATE: We’ve broken 500 comments asking for 24p/25p  – awesome. You’ve all made the point loud and clear. I wanted to share a few thoughts with you…

First of all – I’ve had a chance to work with a lot of cool companies these past few years – in the development of both software and hardware – and if there’s one thing I’ve learned (actually two):

1. You need to find out right away if something is technically (im)possible – is what you’re asking for something that the hardware / software can do… obvious – but easy to overlook – don’t waste your energy pushing for something that simply can’t be done…

2. You need to request only ONE thing… THE most important thing to you. And STAY FOCUSED ON THAT – so that they understand you are willing to give up on the 5-30 other features you are dying for… if you don’t do that – you’ll overwhelm them… and they’ll ignore you.  Well they might not exactly ignore you – but remember that other people are asking for different things as well.. if you’re enough of a “pro” to ask just for one thing and let the other things go – they know that “the” one feature truly is KEY to you.

So for now… 24/25p should be the ONE request in my opinion. Read the rest of this entry »

Due to pretty incredible demand and a fair amount of (healthy) skepticism as to whether or not the footage in the “Reverie” piece is “truly” raw out of the camera, we will be releasing a series of raw clips – the exact same clips that were used in the “Reverie” short film –  this coming Friday.   Read the rest of this entry »

I just wanted to put up a quick public thank you to everyone for visiting  – and for all of the comments.    

539,380 have visited this blog since Saturday and 211,935 today alone – and that’s nuts.  The most amazing thing: my server (Rob Haggart’s to be exact) is still up  – as are both the Canon and SmugMug servers that are serving up the massive amounts of data…

Just to put things in perspective… (While I can’t really assume that everyone visiting this site has been here to see the video and downloaded it – but the numbers are showing that 98% or so or the visits are to both of those videos) I think it’s safe to assume that between that (and the fact that people are visiting the Canon web site directly from other articles/blogs etc from around the world) let’s assume for a minute that the 89.4 MB has been seen “only”  211,935 times  (and that does not include all of the other sites linking to the video directly… sites that undoubtedly send much greater traffic to them than this little blog does…)  To put it in perspective – today alone: a minimum of 18,946,989 Megabytes …. almost 19 TB alone have been transmitted – I know Smug Mug is up to 3.8 TB of bandwidth for the behind the scenes video – today alone…  these numbers are nuts to me. 

Anyway – thanks for all of the kind words.  My apologies for not getting back to the comments today – I will do so tomorrow.  It’s 10 p.m. and I’m going to catch up on rest – so that I can be at maybe 90% tomorrow – it’s been a very long – but invigorating – ten days!  And this looks to be just the beginning…