Guest post by Paul Raftery: The Shard film is my first time-lapse project, conceived as a collaboration between myself as an architectural photographer and videographer Dan Lowe over a couple of beer...
By site editor Dan Chung: Until now users upgrading to the latest DSLRs with larger LCD screens have not really had a good solution for using them with their Zacuto Z-Finder LCD loupes. The original ...
Guest post by Stewart Copeland: One year ago, I came across a picture of Roger Smith, showing him towering over his diorama of a baseball stadium. Spectators lined the balsa wood bleachers and player...
By Adam Westbrook What does it take to tell remarkable stories on the web? It’s always been a bit of a mystery to me. Some films, slideshows and websites rack up tens of thousands of hits in a ...
Guest post by Mark Tipple Ocean : West Away from Mark Tipple on Vimeo. The idea behind West Away: A number of years ago I used to meet up with my friends Mike and Luke in various remote parts of the ...
By site editor Dan Chung The new Rycote Softie Lyre mount MHR Rycote mic covers: Microphone accessory manufacturer Rycote have launched a few products that may interest real world shooters. Firstly t...
By site editor Dan Chung Every year we get back from NAB and realise that there was equipment that we should have reported but somehow missed. This year is no exception but our good friends at FreshD...
By site editor Dan Chung: One of the main concerns I had when testing video on the Nikon D800 was moire in some images. This is almost certainly the result of the way Nikon engineers are binning pixe...
By site editor Dan Chung: When I recently tested the Nikon D800 and Canon 5D mkIII side by side in New York the one thing that I could not test was the quality of D800 footage when recorded externall...
By technical editor Matt Allard: D-Focus were showing a new cage for the Panasonic GH2 at NAB this year. It features a rugged metal construction with full access to ports and battery compartment. Pri...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Robert from Genus talked to me about the company’s new Cheese range of accessories and their new monitor arm. The Genus arm is actually manufactured by Noga. Sh...
By site editor Dan Chung: In this video Bruce Sharpe of Singular software demonstrates the upcoming version 3.0 release. The software features a video and audio interface and is ten to twenty times f...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Litepanels were showing a couple of newer products suitable for news shooters at NAB 2012. The Sola ENG on camera lights is a powerful, focusable LED light designed f...
By technical editor Matt Allard: In this video we check out the new Lectrosonics waterproof wireless lav transmitter and also their new handheld wireless reporters mic. Video shot and edited by Scott...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Vinten have been making broadcast camera tripods for many years but recently launched the Blue range targeting users in the middle price bracket. Their latest model t...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Joseph Jang of Cineroid walks me through his company’s line of LED lights and EVFs on show at NAB 2012. The new L10 lights are incredibly powerful for their siz...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Tõnis Liivamägi from Kinotehnik talks me through the company’s new EVF for DSLR and large sensor camcorders like the Sony FS100, PMW-F3 and Canon C300. The comp...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Hollywood DOP Shane Hurlbut took time at NAB to talk to me about rigs for news and docu shooting. Hurlbut recently shot the blockbuster ‘Act of Valor’ tha...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Ikan have a big range of new products here at NAB 2012 – the most interesting is the D range of mini monitors which feature Waveform monitoring options.
By site editor Dan Chung: Nikon have just launched their latest enthusiast level DSLR the D3200. The interesting thing to note about the D3200 is that is has 1080P HD video in 24, 25 and 30P frame ra...
By site editor Dan Chung: I took the opportunity today to speak to photojournalist turned film director Vincent Laforet about the issues around this year’s World Press Photo Multimedia competit...
By site editor Dan Chung: This is a recording from the last dslrnewsshooter live panel at NAB 2012. I am joined by former and current ENG news shooters Philip Bloom, Den Lennie, Rick Macomber and Mat...
By technical editor Matthew Allard: Want to shoot ENG style large sensor video? got $38K spare? Andy Shipsides of AbelCine has the new Fujinon Cabrio cine zoom with ENG style servo control rigged to ...
By technical editor Matt Allard: Technicolor’s new CineLights software is marketed as a straightforward way to colour correct and grade footage shot with log style gamma curve material. We spea...
By techincal Editor Matt Allard: Jens from Zacuto demonstrates the company’s new Plasmalight at NAB 2012.
By technical editor Matt Allard: Juicedlink’s Robert Rozak talks to me about the new Juicedlink RM333 audio adapter for Canon 5D mkIII and Nikon D800 at NAB 2012.
By site editor Dan Chung: Canon’s Chuck Westfall takes time to talk to us about about the Canon EOS-1D C and C500.
By site editor Dan Chung: We interview Brian Valente of Redrockmicro about his latest products. Interesting for Documentary shooters may be the new Blue rig range that can be quickly reconfigured fro...
By site editor Dan Chung Olof Ekbergh is a shooter with a passion for designing new and interesting camera rigs. His company Westside AV has been manufacturing custom supports mainly for regular vide...
By site editor Dan Chung The Canon EOS-1D C The Canon C500 With NAB2012 just around the corner Canon have chosen today to announce their brand new C500 and EOS-1D C. The C500 shares an almost identic...
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