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Chad Stevens says that when he finds something he loves, he tackles it with 100 percent of his energy. That's the gusto he has approached skydiving with. He took his first skydive about four years ago and has since completed more than 3,200 jumps. But Stevens doesn't just leap from airplanes. He is an accredited...

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Sometimes we write to be definitive; sometimes we write simply to add to the body of knowledge growing about a particular subject. This article falls...

NAB 2006 

By S. D. Katz, D. W. Leitner, Dan Ochiva, and Jan Ozer

Anyone who attended the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention came away with one shared feeling: The industry is doing fine. Whether...

Dream Job: Video Reunion  

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Shoot Review: Sony PCM-D1  

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Good audio is one of those things in life where the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. The explosion of surround sound programming has made...

NAB 2006 

By Barry Braverman, S. D. Katz, D. W. Leitner, Steve Mullen, Dan Ochiva, Jan Ozer, and Jeff Sauer

When the final history of NAB 2006 is written, don't be surprised if it ends up sounding like the tale of the blind man and the elephant: Depending upon...

Fields & Frames 

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Even as video slowly but steadily replaces the Thomas Edison/W.K.L. Dickson's invention of motion pictures, OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology...

First Person: Sony XDCAM HD Camcorder 

By Mark Falstad, director/cameraman

It sounded easy enough. Take three of Sony’s brand-new XDCAM HD PDW-F350 camcorders to Alaska to shoot a documentary on the 2006 Iditarod, The Last Great Race! First scene: four-time champion Martin Buser working his dogs one last time before the start. (Read about Falstad and other filmmakers and NAB-goers at NABlog) ...