Philip Bloom hears from Alex Buono, the Saturday Night Live DP who recently shot the new title sequence on the 7D and 5d as well as loads of other bits and pieces. They normally use film, Cinealta, Varicam or the HVX but they shot on the 7d and 5d for the first time recently. They wanted to shoot the new title sequence with the 7d after seeing how good it looked after seeing Phil's little Dublin’s People short apparently which is very flattering.
They also have used it for studio sketches like the one above for “Bladivan”. If you live in US or can hide your IP you can view it here.
Alex said he was impressed, he gave some feedback to Canon to what he would like to see improved which is great. He does an awesome job above and we can’t wait to see the other stuff he has done with it including the new title sequence. We are going to see more and more stuff shot on these cameras for broadcast as their abilities are discovered. Yes they have shortcomings but the image quality out of them as we know is terrific. Phil has yet to shoot any broadcast with the 7d but have shot 3 broadcast TV commercials on the 5d and the results have been awesome. As reported first on:
http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/09/29/saturday-night-live-use-canon-7d-and-5d/