Shoot Review: Sony PMW-EX3 Reviewer: D. W. Leitner
It’s virtually unprecedented for a manufacturer to release a follow-up product hard on the heels of the original, which highlights the fact that the Sony PMW-EX3, despite a successive product number, is not a successor to the PMW-EX1 but rather its matched complement....
Shoot Review: Panasonic AG-HPX170 Reviewer: Jan Ozer
Panasonic’s AG-HPX170 delivers groundbreaking new usability features in several key areas, along with excellent color and relatively noise-free video....
Common Goal Story and photos by Bill Miller
If the broadcast isn't going out to 20 million people, you haven't directed live television. So starts my interview with veteran television director Lawrence...
Test Drive: Affordable HD Formats, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
If you’re considering buying a new affordable HD camcorder, you should have at least three formats in mind: tried-and-true HDV, up-and-coming AVCHD, and the ever-more-affordable DVCPRO HD. By a stroke of good fortune, I have three such camcorders in hand right now, and I thought it would be a good time to discuss their relative merits...
Shoot Review: Kino Flo VistaBeam Reviewer: D. W. Leitner
VistaBeam is a new design from Kino Flo that marries twin compact fluorescent tubes long, slender, U-shaped tubes like those introduced in Kino Flo's...
On the Line Story by Cynthia Wisehart
Photos by Joshua Touber
When Barack Obama turned up on stage in Denver's Pepsi Center at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to congratulate his running mate, Joe Biden,...
Fade to Black: Marc Abraham, Director By Michael Goldman
With a successful track record as a movie producer (The Road to Wellville, Thirteen Days, and Children of Men, among others), Marc Abraham chose a small...
Green Meets Red By Ellen Wolff
In the hallway of a former bicycle factory outside Vancouver, British Columbia, a bloody corpse lies on a gurney, swathed unceremoniously in plastic wrap....
Review: Panasonic AJ-HPX2700 By Barry Braverman
Few professional broadcast cameras have achieved the vaulted status and battle-hardened reputation of the original Panasonic Varicam. Introduced at NAB...
By Darroch Greer
When the tragic Sichuan earthquake (magnitude 7.9) struck China on May 12, HBO decided to send a filmmaker to the region almost immediately in order to capture documentary footage. ...