Dream Job: Higher Calling By Kristinha M. Anding
Brendon Petty is religious about his work. A preacher's kid with a history of both church involvement and video production, editing, and broadcast experience,...
Busting Reality By Darroch Greer
Can diving underwater save a person from gunfire? Can a penny dropped from a tall building kill someone on the ground? Can an unaided human voice shatter...
Panasonic to Ship AJ-HPX3000 P2 HD Shoulder-mount Camcorder
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...
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...
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...
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...