Well, the video capabilities of the DSLR, have been long talked about, and our appetites whetted via the films produced by the likes of Vincent Laforet, such as his reverie film.  Whilst these are nice and cinematic pieces, there has been a lack of real world use surfacing. Most of the demos, tend to not use speech and are montage pieces with a soundtrack. Until now.

I found about Danfung Dennis’s Battle for Hearts and Minds documentary via the picture stories blog. A post over at DSLR shooter has a nice piece on his setup and some of the issues that he faced in the heat of Afghanistan, the lack of AF, once filming, must be a nightmare in the highly mobile and changeable situation he was in.

A trailer for the documentary is below:

An interview with Danfung Dennis, by PBS, can be seen here and more of his videos are available on Vimeo.

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