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The Art of Photography

Launch Event :: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

Diy, Art, Arts, Visual Arts, Image, Technology, Photography, Tv & Film, Culture, Tutorials, Gadgets, Photographers

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sponsored by Canon :: Canon invited me to the Canon 5D Mark IV Launch Event at the Whitney Museum of American Art! Canon worked with 4 photographers who were given the 5D Mark IV and 24 hours to make something. The resulting photographs and video were released at the event as the first images made on the Canon 5D Mk IV. I also had an opportunity to talk to Technical Specialist Drew MacCallum about some of his favorite aspects of the 5D Mark IV including touch screen focus, burst rates, 4K video recording, why the chose to do a cropped 4k and the Motion JPEG codec. Featured Photographers: Roberto Valenzuela Jendra Jarnagin Sue Bryce Alex Strohl Also special guest appearances by Tony and Chelsea Northrup https://www.youtube.com/user/VistaClues

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Ted Forbes here from the Art of Photography and I am super excited because it is finally time to share with you guys the big surprise that I was telling you about.

0:07.5

This week I am in New York City and Cannon has invited me to come down to the 5D Mark 4 launch event. Now I'm really excited about this.

0:14.4

One, I've never been to a launch event for a camera before. Also I have been a big fan of the

0:19.2

Canon 5D lineup and I've had everything really since the Canon 5D Mark 2 and so I'm really

0:24.2

excited to see what the Mark 4 is capable of and also this is going to take place

0:29.2

at the brand new location of the Whitney Museum of American Art which which I have not been to yet either.

0:33.7

So part of what we're going to be seeing tonight and how they theme this is the campaign.

0:38.2

So they've got four photographers that they've been working with, and so Alex Stroll, who's a wonderful travel photographer,

0:44.0

Gendra Jarnigan, who's actually a cinema photographer. She works as a director

0:47.6

of photography for film-based projects. And then two more photographers who are

0:51.6

members of the Canon Explorers of Light Programs,

0:54.0

Sue Bryce, who is a great portrait photographer, and Roberto Valenzuela who does really high-end wedding work.

0:59.2

He's a super cool guy. And so what they've done is they've given all four of these photographers, the

1:04.0

Canon 5D Mark 4, and 24 hours to make something. So literally these images

1:09.2

and the video that they're going to show are hot off the press from start to

1:12.4

finish. They've done a photo shoot and a bunch of

1:14.1

prints and then Genra has done a video project and so I'm really excited about this. So I'm going to bring you

1:19.7

guys along and make a video so without further to do come with me let's head down to the

1:23.3

Whitney. Oh, So, I think this may be our entrance here.

1:57.0

This may be our entrance here.

1:59.0

The Canyon entrance.

2:00.0

Thank you so much.

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