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Shoot Review: Panasonic AG-HSC1U  

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

At last April's NAB, Panasonic introduced what it calls the world's smallest professional 3CCD high-definition camcorder, the 1.1lb. AG-HSC1U. This miniature...

Review: Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 

By Barry Braverman

In the world of high-end HD production, shooters have a new choice: The Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 is offering performance and dazzling specs at a knockout...

Beta Sight: Iconix HD-RH1  

By Bert Dunk, ASC, CSC

I've been working in Hollywood as a cinematographer since the early 1990s, serving as DP on such films as Rich Men, Single Women (1990), Flashfire (1993), and The Inspectors (1998), as well as numerous other projects for television. In 2000, I worked with Director Robert Wise on A Storm in Summer, based on Rod Serling's 1970 teleplay, and in 2002, I shot the crime drama Street Time, for which I was nominated for Best Cinematography in a TV Series by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers...

Amelia Earhart Expedition Documented with a Panasonic AG-HVX200 

Peabody Award-winning director of photography Mark Smith traveled with the 70th Anniversary Amelia Earhart Expedition to the remote South Pacific island of Nikumaroro this summer, armed with Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 HD camcorders to document the group’s archeological research...

NFL Films Lensing in HD 

By Craig Erpelding

Steve Sabol, president and CEO of Mount Laurel, N.J.-based NFL Films, worked hard to fulfill his artistic vision when he developed the signature look of NFL Films...

MagicWig Productions Uses Pansonic AJ-HDX9000 and AG-HVX200 for Green Documentary 

Director/director of photography Justin Maine of Schenectady, NY-based MagicWig Productions couples Panasonic’s multiformat AJ-HDX900 DVCPRO HD camcorder and the AG-HVX200 P2 HD handheld camcorder for the production of So Right, So Smart...

Format Wars: HDV Output, Part 2 

By Jan Ozer

This article describes the hardware and software options for authoring and producing Blu-ray Discs to recordable media. In our last installment, I discussed these options for HD DVD videos, and compared Blu-ray to HD DVD from the perspective of the HDV producer...

Scourge Shot in HD with JVC ProHD GY-HD250  

Director Jonas Quastel and DP Corey Robson chose the JVC GY-HD250 to shoot horror film, Scourge ...

Earth in HD 

By Craig Erpelding

Co-director Mark Linfield recently concluded work on an epic production when his team made the final cuts and delivered Earth—a film which documents the remarkable wildlife and unique habitats of our planet in high definition....

Format Wars: HDV Output, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

I’ve been shooting in HDV for about two years, and it used to break my heart to scale my gorgeous 1920x1080i footage down to 720x480 to produce an SD DVD. Then, in late 2006, the first high-definition recordable DVD options became available. I’ve been producing in high definition ever since...