Category Archives: Shooting

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Thomson Broadens Customer Base With New HD Camera, New Vision

Thomson, traditionally known for high-end broadcast equipment, is now making inroads in a broader direction by starting to offer HD products to a new targeted user. The company most recently introduced the LDK more »

Lighting a video interview with Arri Fresnels

Step 1 Set up the main light source The key light is the main source used to light the subject. Its direction and ratio to other light used establishes the mood of the illumination. An Arri 650-watt fresnel is more »

Panasonic AJ-HDX400

Aimed at creating an acquisition-through-editing HD system that's affordable for content creators with a decent but not huge budget, Panasonic began shipping its AJ-HDX400 1080i DVCPRO HD camcorder. more »

Panasonic AG-DVX100A DV Rack

The Panasonic AG-DVX100A’s features include enhanced 24p and 30p progressive mode functions and improved color reproduction, new Cine-like gamma curves and enhanced image adjustments. The DV Rack software runs on a PC or laptop connected to a DV camera. It … more »

VFGadgets' MiniDV camera car mount

VFGadgets Inc. introduces the "Hang N Shoot" MiniDV camera car mount system developed by FTS ( Film & Television Services) in Israel. This new system is user friendly, lightweight (17.08 pounds) and designed for use with MiniDV cameras, such as … more »

Deal with shifting light during tracking shots on outdoor shoots with the Canon XL2

Step 1 Check white balance Make sure the camera already has a good white balance. Step 2 Set proper exposure Check the proper exposure for the starting angle and the finishing angle and compare the number of more »

A Really Big Event, A Really Big Lens

Director of photography Sean Fairburn (right) shot the launch of SpaceShipOne, the world's first commercial spacecraft, with a 101x zoom lens from Fujinon. The Fujinon XA101x8.9BESM was attached to a Sony more »

AccuScene VF1280S eyepiece

Scotland's AccuScene wants you to replace your full-screen color monitor and your waveform monitor with the AccuScene system, which offers precise adjustment of both camera focus and more »

Panasonic AJ-SDC905

Panasonic shipped the AJ-SDC905, a DVCPRO50/DVCPRO camcorder with IEEE-1394 for lossless data transfer in the field. The three-chip camera with 12-bit DSP records DVCPRO50 at 4:2:2 and DVCPRO at 4:1:1 in more »

When Art and Cell Phones Collide

How does an Oscar-nominated cinematographer get involved with Motorola? "The whole thing was kind of a lark," says Ed Lachman (Far From Heaven, Erin Brockovich). "I was shooting a commercial more »