Aiming High By Cynthia Wisehart
Preproduction was done in secret, because parkour is barely legal. The filmmakers were as elusive as the athletes one step ahead of anybody in authority...
Beta Sight: Easylook System Modula HD Cam By Alexander Palm, Director of Photography and Operating Cameraman
When I was asked to be the DP for the new low-budget commercial for cooktop manufacturer Ceran, which would be mostly shown on the Internet, it was obvious...
Aerial HD By Michael Goldman
Earlier this year, filmmaker Brian J. Terwilliger earned attention for his independent HD feature called “One Six Right: The Romance of Flying”a tribute to the Van Nuys, Calif., municipal airport and the art of small plane aviation. ...
Roll and Judder:By Steve Mullen
Shooting widescreen video with a handheld camcorder is made more difficult by their side-of-the-camera grips. In the old days, all but the cheapest film cameras had some type of “pistol grip.”...
Field Testing the Panasonic AG-HPX500 By Craig Erpelding
As previously reported and discussed by Panasonic at its NAB presentation this year, the company has been aggressively promoting the use of its P2 solid state memory cards and camcorders...
JVC Professional Products Company has announced an agreement with Scripps Television Station Group to provide ProHD cameras and accessories as part of Scripps’ plan to upgrade all of its television stations to HD. ?...
HDV Camcorders and Film Lens Adapters By Steve Mullen
Digital Content producer looks at the new film lens adapter option for JVC ProHD camcorders: the JVC HZ-CA13U. ...
Cosmic Creation By Trevor Boyer
How do you depict a phenomenon that absorbs and distorts every photon of light that comes near it? That would turn out to be the easy part, as the Denver...
Mark In
Will this past NAB be remembered as a watershed for do-it-yourself innovation and the opening of closed product lines? That's how things are shaping up....
NAB 2007 By D. W. Leitner, Jan Ozer, Dan Ochiva, and Jeff Sauer
This Year's NAB hosted 108,232 attendees from 141 countries around the world at the Las Vegas Convention Center between April 14 and April 19. With all...