Comments on: Panasonic G2 Commercial Seemingly Shot with Canon 5D Mark II

By: Jack Vane

Jack Vane — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:10:51 +0000

They pulled the video on youtube, anyone got another link to it?

By: ebPic

ebPic — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:34:18 +0000

Kinda nice to see (ex ;-P) pro-producers using HDSLRs for commercial work though!
TBH its not *that* bad using other peoples products in the making of your own commercials. I bet alot of car commercials are shot from camera cars which are not the brand of the car being shot.
Releasing a BTS showing it so obviously is stupid though. Can’t beleive nobody at Pana noticed this on the BTS. Why release the BTS if it obviously shows you demonstrating someone elses product.
Is it mirrored anywhere? Seems to have vanished of youtube now!

By: Vitor M.

Vitor M. — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:53:31 +0000

At least Olympus made their commercial using their own gear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6DijVApReI

By: grumpy

grumpy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:53:27 +0000

@amused: Well, Olympus seems to be doing just the opposite - aggressively promoting the fact that their Olympus PEN E-PL1 commercial was in fact shot with one. Highly effective too, in my opinion. No better way to sell it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E25em-brl8

By: amused

amused — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:47:42 +0000

it is the production house’s prerogative on what equipment they want to use. panasonic hired the ad agency and production house for their idea, not based on what equipment they use. if panasonic dictates that they use only panasonic video cameras to shoot this ad beause THIS IS A PANASONIC CAMERA AD, they will be compromising the creativity, quality of the ad – since the director and crew is probably used to their own equipment. i don’t need to bring in time sensitive schedule and budget to retrain crew to use new equipment, do i?
i cannot believe how stupid and narrow minded some people are to be debating this. stop being shit stirrers.

By: TR

TR — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:49:51 +0000

Nikon has no market share in the video professional market. And Canon is way behind Sony.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:35:48 +0000

Regardless, they are committing fraud no? Shame Lumix/Panasonic. Someone is going to get fired over this. Too bad, they actually make pretty fair point and shoots.

By: frank

frank — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:16:48 +0000

Panasonic gear actually shows up quite frequently in the professional film and video world, Iain. Not this Lumix camera perhaps. But D5 and plasma and LCD monitors are in all of the professional facilities, FYI.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:43:12 +0000

/care
Like the professional teams behind fotography and film are going to use Panasonic equipment. Nikon and Canon are leading in the professional market, so it would be *logical* to see teams all over the world use Canon or Nikon.