A Decade of Vanguards, #3 By Jan Ozer
I reviewed my first HDV camcorder, Sony's groundbreaking HDR-FX1, in December 2004, and I have shot most subsequent projects in HDV...
A Decade of Vanguards, #5 By Barry Braverman
The advent of the Panasonic AJ-HDC27V Varicam in 2001 ushered in a wealth of creative possibilities for video shooters...
Canon EOS 7D Review By Jan Ozer
I recently spent about a month with the Canon EOS 7D solely evaluating its video quality, and the results were impressive...
A Decade of Vanguards, #6 By Barry Braverman
Like the inadvertent inventions of penicillin, the Slinky, and Kellogg's Corn Flakes, the development of the HDSLR as a serious video-capture device was likely no less unintentional. The major manufacturersNikon, Canon, and Panasonic...
A Decade of Vanguards, #8 By Franklin McMahon
During the last decade, 24p—the 24fps rate of film achieved via progressive scan—became accessible and then affordable. Starting with cameras such as the Panasonic AG-DVX100 and Canon XL2...
JVC GY-HM100U Hands-on By Bill Miller
I made a pledge to myself a number of years ago that when the 25lb. camera I lugged around all day on handheld assignments got to be too much, I'd throw in the towel...
A Decade of Vanguards, #9 By Dan Ochiva
Although lighting doesn't get as much effusive press as the latest camcorder, the constantly improving capabilities of LED lighting over the past decade could prove as significant as the latest developments in CMOS chips...
JVC GY-HM100 Beta Sight By Jeremiah Fry
Last year, when I learned that Embrace A Village founders Joe and Patricia Clendenny needed someone to produce documentaries to raise awareness about the plight of India's lepers and their organization, I volunteered...
Shooting for Slow Motion By Jan Ozer
If you want fast or slow motion in your video, you have two choices: you can adjust the speed in your editor, which can produce interpolation artifacts, or you can adjust the frames per second captured by your camcorder, which should deliver higher quality...
By Trevor Boyer
Technologically speaking, the new decade is getting off to a considerable bang with CES 2010. As you probably know, stereoscopic 3D is, as was long expected, the big, sexy story of the show...