Those Canon 5D’s are tough little cookies. When it first came out, we were wondering if it might survive being rigged on the outside of a BMW M3 rally car and driven at 80 mph across a frozen lake in Sweden at -25c. It handled that, no problem and I never gave it another thought until I saw this footage of the new Brietling advert and the ‘making of’ reel.
Check out the Canon HDSLR’s being rigged in the cockpit with what looks like a 14mm fisheye, but also at around 1:34 the 5D being rigged inside the wingtip pod on the L39 jet before departing for some high G formation flying with Nigel Lamb’s Edge.
DoP is the highly experienced Eric Manann, responsible for many of the famous aerial sequences you’ll have seen over the years. His YouTube channel makes interesting viewing, but be warned, you’ll be happy to spend hours watching superb formation flying of French air force fast jets.
I’d often thought that the Canon 5D Mk2 had the perfect form for being mounted on high sped aircraft, but was unsure about triggering, monitoring, exposure etc. Judging by this movie,shot on a combination of Canon 5D and RED cameras, it survives prolonged high G just fine.
