Products: Sony By Dan Ochiva
Sony started selling the first consumer OLED screens this past January, with a list price of $2,500 for the 11in. screen...
Shoot Tools: Air Sea Land Gear By Dan Ochiva
The BluFish 2 HD underwater housing from Air Sea Land Gear, features include dome- and flat-port optics and a rotating collar with 1/4in. taps that allow the housing to be mounted to multiple grip arms and devices. ...
Shoot Tools: Hitachi By Dan Ochiva
The Hitachi SK-HD1000 HDTV studio and field-production camera was introduced last year, this updated version now employs a new generation of 2/3in., 2.2-million-pixel, progressive CCDs to deliver a sharp 1100-TVL resolution at a quiet 60dB....
Shoot Tools: Panasonic By Dan Ochiva
The Panasonic AG-HMC150 camera shoots HD formats that include 1080/60i, 1080/30p, and 1080/24p. Sporting a Leica Dicomar zoom lens (it opens to a relatively wide 28mm equivalent—that’s in 35mm film terms), the HMC150 records 1080i and 720p at 13Mbps, which the company claims is comparable in quality to current HDV compression formats with bit rates of 25Mbps....
Shoot Tools: Zacuto By Dan Ochiva
Investing in support gear to hold matte boxes and other camera accessories presents a problem...
Products: Tiffen By Dan Ochiva
Titanium adds rigidity to laptops and camera gear, even though it is used in thinner sheets than comparable aluminum or other material...
Products: Celco By Dan Ochiva
With more interest in 4K production and post, making sure that high-res work is safe is a new problem to consider...
Shoot Tools: Audio-Technica By Dan Ochiva
While it's ideal to have an audio recorder with you on location, what do you do if you don't want that added expense for occasional field recording...
Shoot Tools: K-Tek By Dan Ochiva
Thread-mounted adapters are pretty simple things, but you'll run into difficulties if you're on location without one...