Dave Sperling is a 25-year veteran of the production industry, having started in the 1980s shooting on 16mm and 35mm film and virtually every video format since. His current favorite camera is Sony’s PDW-F350 optical-disc-based XDCAM HD, which he recently used for a series of promotional “press reels” for Broadway shows and for an independent feature called Wherever You Are (directed by Rob Margolies and starring Joe Morton, Jane Adams and Josh Pais). He doesn’t own the camera himself, but rents them often and highly recommends them to anyone who’ll listen.
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