Shoot Tools: Schneider Optics By Dan Ochiva
Sony's HVR-Z7U and HVR-S270OU camcorders received kudos when they started delivering earlier this year, with features such as a trio of newly designed...
Shoot Tools: Panasonic By Dan Ochiva
It caused a stir when it was shown at NAB 2008, and now Panasonic's P2-based AG-HPX170 handheld camcorder has a ship date (late September) and a final...
Shoot Tools: Cineform By Dan Ochiva
While there are not yet many productions employing the JPEG 2000 spec, the advanced codec already has the Hollywood community behind it it's the standard...
Products: Ikonoskop By Dan Ochiva
The Digital Negative (DNG), promulgated by Adobe, is an open, publicly available archival format for RAW files generated by digital cameras. The idea...
Products: Band Pro By Dan Ochiva
As the economy tightens, pricey gear gets farther away from many a rental house's or production's budget. BandPro Film and Digital has one solution: lease....
Shoot Tools: DuetBreakout By Dan Ochiva
A small company, DuetBreakout, built its own hand-crafted solution: Breakout. The box offers a more solid way to provide I/O for the Apogee Duet without the "rats' nest of cableage," as the company puts it. ...
Shoot Tools: Apogee Electronics By Dan Ochiva
The Apogee Duet—a FireWire audio interface designed specifically for Mac computers—brings a quality, 2-channel, 24-bit/96kHz interface to a laptop or desktop. ...
Shoot Tools: Kodak By Dan Ochiva
Kodak’s Zi6 HD pocket video¬camera shoots 720p video at 60fps with a 16:9 aspect ratio—although you won’t mistake the results as something from a Sony or Panasonic unit. ...
Shoot Tools: DXG By Dan Ochiva
DXG joins the party with its DXG-567V, which offers 1280x720 HD recording. It uses the H.264 codec to deliver 1280x720/30fps, 720x480/30fps, and 320x240 in the .mov file format....
Shoot Tools: K-Tek By Dan Ochiva
Soft-Touch collars are constructed of precisely engineered thermal composite, and they are UV- and rain-resistant....