Apple ProRes 422 Beta Sight By John Trapp, video production engineer, Newsmax Media
In 2007, Newsmax Media, an independent online news site and monthly print magazine, converted a 12ft.-by-10ft. office in its headquarters into a studio to launch its Newsmax.TV online video operations...
P2 Hits Its Stride in 2009 By Helmut Kobler
Panasonic's P2 was the first tapeless format to take the tired, old workflow that shooters and producers have used for 30 years and drag it into the 21st century...
Leitner's Cinematography Corner, No. 6 By D.W. Leitner
For projects requiring high shooting ratios in the early 1980s, you could shoot 16mm or try on for size one of those newfangled "camcorders" from Sony, Panasonic, or Bosch...
Leitner's Cinematography Corner, No. 5 By D.W. Leitner
Stereoscopy, or 3D imaging, has been around as long as photography, at least since1840, when the English inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone, who first explained binocular vision in 1838, fashioned his first stereoscope for displaying photos in stereo pairs...
Sony PDW-F800 Review By D.W. Leitner
Sony announced its latest CineAlta shoulder-mounted 2/3in. camcorder, the PDW-F800 ($42,700, no viewfinder), last April at NAB, little more than a year after the PDW-700 was introduced, and production models are now available...
Leitner's Cinematography Corner, No. 4 By D.W. Leitner
Cinema is scale. Last spring, I saw again Hitchcock’s gothic thriller Rebecca on the towering 40ft.-tall screen of a classic movie palace, Loew’s Jersey Theatre in Jersey City, N.J....
AJA Ki Pro Review By Barry Braverman
Few products come to mind that have so shaken the tripods of shooters and our collective industry bones...
Wide-angle Lenses By Barry Braverman
Many of us have long had a love affair with our wide-angle lenses--the wider the better. These lenses are our daily workhorses...
Leitner's Cinematography Corner, No. 3 By D.W. Leitner
Exhibit B: the new PMW-350, a groundbreaking 2/3in. shoulder-mount EX-series camcorder that records to solid-state SxS cards...
Wireless Fan-cam Operation in the Sports and Entertainment Market By Anthony Sangiovanni, vice president, Sports & Entertainment Group, RF Extreme
Wireless cameras are not new to the market, but improvements to the technology behind them are rapidly changing the way they are being deployed, especially in the sports market...