I can recall dreaming of owning a Canon Scoopic back when I scraped money together to pay for film stock to put in my spring powered, non-reflex Bolex with its odd assortment of C mount lenses. I was pleased to see the name Canon pop up in the realm of motion pictures again for a product other than their lenses. David Heuring wrote about the Canon 5D in Digital Video magazine. The camera was cinematographer Sam Levy’s pick for shooting ‘Frances Ha.’ His black and white images are reminiscent of the French New Wave films. Heuring delves into cinema aesthetics in his discussion of making moving images with this DSLR.

Using the Canon 5D to Capture ‘Frances Ha’