Benjamin Ellis

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Time-Slice Films – Photography Meets Cinematography

Sometimes people call it Bullet-time, but more properly it is called time-slice – freezing a moment in time, but from multiple views – an effect made most famous by the Matrix series of films. The team behind the effect I met the Time-Slice Films team at the Canon Pro Solutions Exhibition, and recorded this intverview [...]

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 9:45 pm. 1 comment

Canon Pro Solutions Show – 09

I spent a good chunk of today in the company of Canon and many of the businesses in what has become a large and successful eco-system around their photography and video products. They took over the business design centre for two days, filling the exhibition space with dozens of exhibitors, as well as their own [...]

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 10:53 am. 4 comments

If you ever wondered how that freeze effect is done in The Matrix, check out this rig of Canon DSLRs.

55 Canon 450Ds with stock lenses and a LOT of PCs and software… 55 Photos from different angles, at the same moment, all then composited into a “video” than pans around a frozen object. Tada! I’m written a full post, complete with a video with Time-slice inventor Tim Macmillan.

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago at 1:49 pm. 2 comments