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Clint Eastwood Investigates HD 

By Michael Goldman

As he began preparations to make back-to-back films about the historic World War II battle for Iwo Jima—Flags of our Fathers and the upcoming Letters from Iwo Jima—director Clint Eastwood reports that he seriously investigated using high-definition cameras to make the movies. Eastwood had DP Tom Stern’s camera team and HD camera operator Liz Radley conduct a series of tests to compare footage from various HD camera systems with 35mm film footage....

KWTV Outfits New Skynews9 HD ENG Helicopter with Fujinon HDTV ENG-style Zoom Lens 

Griffin Communications’ Oklahoma City television station News 9 KWTV recently acquired a new state-of-the-art Bell 407 helicopter equipped with Fujinon’s HA42x13.5BERD HDTV ENG-Style zoom lens...

HD Adventure Down Under 

By Craig Erpelding

The Discovery Channel is continuing to lead the way in producing high-end HD-based documentaries for broadcast with its Discovery HD Theater strategy of premiering high-end documentary broadcast fare...

Sony 3ClearVid CMOS Technology Primer 

Steve Mullen

In this installment of HDV@Work, we look at the technology behind Sony's ClearVid CMOS chips, found in the new HVR-V1U camcorder. ...

CASE STUDY: Canon’s XL H1 HD Camcorder Enhances Creative Opportunities for Local Documentary Producer 

For Robert Parish, being a one-man video crew used to mean frequent trips to the chiropractor. “Being in pain doesn’t really help with the creative process,” he recalled. “Portable broadcast cameras used to cause me back problems.”...

Pondering HD Acquisition’s Future 

By Craig Erpelding

In the August 22 issue of HD Focus, Barry Clark, executive producer at Mandalay Media Arts, provided insight into the current HD trend in the stock footage industry....

Suspense Thriller Shot with Panasonic AJ-HDC27 VariCam 

The full-length feature Dismal, a thriller that plunks two suburbanites down in the middle of 100,000 acres of murky swampland, recently wrapped postproduction for submission to the Sundance Film Festival, its first stop on the festival circuit. A production of 1944 Films, Dismal was shot with the Panasonic AJ-HDC27 VariCam HD cinema camera....

M2 Uses Nucoda Film Master to Grade Death of a President 

Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in film and video solutions, announced that London postproduction facility M2 used the Nucoda Film Master system to grade the provocative Borough Films/Channel 4 feature-length doc-u-drama, Death of a President....

CMOS Technology Primer 

By Steve Mullen

CMOS imagers, like CCDs, are made from silicon. CMOS, which stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, also is used to describe the manufacturing process. Today CMOS is the most common method of making processors and memories. Therefore, CMOS imagers take advantage of the high-volume process and cost advancements created by other CMOS devices (such as cell phone cameras)....

Dream Job: For Artists, By Artists 

By Kristinha M. Anding

Michael Masucci feels an acute sense of responsibility to his fellow artists. It's this social consciousness that propelled the former New Yorker, high-end...