Dan Chung’s take on the 60th birthday parade

I came across this video from Dan Chung of the Grauniad and think it is sensational, not only because of the parade, but because of how he did it.

China’s 60th Anniversary national day – timelapse and slow motion – 7D and 5DmkII from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

see original in vimeo here

Head over to DSLRshooter’s page on the thing. Have a look at the page about the adapter for the Nikon lenses that allows them to be used professionally on Canon cameras over at 16-9 and then look at their review of the Nikon 14-24mm F2 lens. Now you can understand better how much effort Dan Chung puts into getting things just right and how this demonstrates the very great likelihood that video (and time-lapse) on DSLRs will become the death of the video camera as we know it. Also how a photographer is best able to express in film the vision he has in his eyes, to expand the limits of conventional video cameras by basically trashing their ability to capture sufficient colour depth and resolution through the entire focal range and aperture openings. Check out the vividness of colours on the trails from the planes. Very nice work. And all this done using three cameras, ingenuity and a good eye, from a vantage point that was way worse than anything CCTV had.