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Panasonic announced it will begin deliveries this month of its new AJ-HPX3000, the industry’s first native 1080p one-piece camcorder to acquire mastering-quality high-definition video. ...

Shoot Expertise: First Look: XDCAM EX  

By D. W. Leitner

With Sony set to introduce a new round of HDV camcorders (the low-cost HVR-HD1000 has debuted at IBC) and with 1/2in. XDCAM HD disc camcorders gaining ground with broadcasters (2/3in. XDCAM HD disc camcorders are set to appear early next year) why would Sony introduce its first flash-memory camcorder now?...

JVC GZ-HD7: World’s First 1920x1080 MPEG-2 Camcorder, Part 2 

By Steve Mullen

In Part 2 of this series, we will look at JVC GZ-HD7 workflows starting with an issue shared by both fixed hard disk and solid-state camcorders. This is the danger of losing material one has shot...

JVC GZ-HD7: World’s First 1920x1080 MPEG-2 Camcorder, Part 1 

By Steve Mullen

When I tested JVC’s DR-HD100 60GB hard-disk recorder for a review published in Broadcast Engineering, I had the opportunity to experience both the advantages and disadvantages...

The Video Horizon 

By Tom Patrick McAuliffe

Look up in the sky. It's a spacecraft; it's an astronaut--it's a videographer? It's all three. As NASA continues to explore space and build the International...

Dream Job: Homecoming  

By Kristinha M. Anding

Leslie Ito ventured out into the world of arts management, working with organizations as renowned as the Forbes Foundation, but she eventually found her...

Keeping it Green 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Tad Fettig met Karena Albers on a deodorant shoot in Hawaii. Both were veterans of the advertising world Fettig as a commercial cinematographer specializing...

Wild Ride 

By Michael Goldman

When Sean Penn's long-held desire to make a movie of Jon Krakauer's novel about iconoclastic adventurer Chris McCandless finally came true, the question...

Lumet Goes Genesis 

By Michael Goldman

Because 83-year-old Sidney Lumet is among cinema's most veteran high-definition players, having first jumped into the fray in 2001 for several episodes...

Early Adopter  

By Michael Goldman

One the first Arriflex D-20 projects expected to hit the big screen is also the first movie ever produced, financed, and made in the nation of Jordan. GigaPix Studios (Chatsworth, Calif.) co-produced the Sundance-bound Captain Abu Raed, directed by Jordanian writer-director Amin Matalqa...