A Legend Refined By Barry Braverman
They displayed a level of performance and heart hitherto unseen in reasonably priced DV camcorders. The Panasonic AG-DVX100 and 100A were truly revolutions in a box, their effect is now continuing...
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Lighting separates the pro from the amateur. It makes the difference between programs that are watchable and those that are not. When executed properly,...
Shoot Review VidPro EBRA-121R By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
The only thing lower than my current bank balance was the client's budget. There was no way we could afford a full crew they could barely afford me. The...
Shoot Review NewTek TriCaster By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
With the new TriCaster portable video production system, NewTek takes a television studio and shrinks it down to the size of a 10lb. box and does so at a price that any serious video maker can afford. For less than...
A Labor of Love By Kristinha M. Anding
For Diana Paul, birth is an inside job. Twenty-eight years ago, when Paul was pregnant with her first child, she knew she wanted to give birth in the comfort and privacy of her own home. But with only three licensed midwives in her state of California and no doctors willing to attend a home birth, it seemed impossible. Paul's husband, who studied contract law at Harvard, poured over...
Coolness Matters By Barry Braverman
"Look, I'll be honest with you," the caller admitted. "I have no idea what it does, but I know I need it." This phone conversation actually took place recently between an eager but clueless customer and a slightly exasperated sales rep for professional matte boxes. The salesman...
Fade to Black: By Michael Goldman
Bosnian DP Suki Medencevic had no intention of becoming a movie producer when he agreed to shoot Ivo Trajkov's critically acclaimed Macedonian film Golemata...
By Gary Eskow
Once upon a time, an evening's television drama might have centered around a cast of Shakespearean actors performing a classic play. These days, though,...
Future Workflow, Today By Barry Braverman
It's unusual for shooters and other mere mortals to glimpse the future with such clarity and insight. Over the last 30 years, many of us prescient industry professionals could only recognize the great leaps forward after the fact...
Shoot Review Sony AWS-G500 Anycast Station By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
When my eval unit of the Sony AWS-G500 Anycast content creation system arrived in one rugged briefcase, I had a flashback to 25 years ago. At that time I was a young PH2 photographer's mate videographer in the U.S. Navy. I was stationed with the Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group and often deployed at a moment's notice to document naval and U.S. Marine operations...