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“Trendy” Part IV: A Return To Small

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My last post in this series is about the return to a more efficient way of doing things. When I was on vacation in Mexico last christmas, I was using my 60D with the Hoodloupe a lot.  I really liked having an electronic viewfinder.  One of my clients bought the Panasonic AF100.  He was used to the video camera form factor and did not like HDSLRs.  I like HDSLRs because of the size and it is a great still camera too. The AF100 has good video monitoring with HDMI and HDSDI. The camera has XLR audio that can be monitored … Continue reading →

“Trendy” Part III: Then came the HDSLR

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Part III is about the change to HDSLR’s for video. I had just bought the JVC HM100 tapeless video camera to replace my Sony V1, but my clients wanted the HDSLR look.  With the Redrock the image was soft and hard to get because of all the adjustments.  It was a beast and it did not like being handheld.  Then came the HDSLR.  The Canon 5D markII came out which shot 1080p video and some my associates were buying Canon.  I realized that I was behind and that I needed to catch up. I was interested in the Panasonic DMC-GH1.  I saw the … Continue reading →

“Trendy” Part II: Digital Still Photography

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In Part 2 I will talk about my conversion to digital for still photography. Through out all this time I still had my film Nikon F3‘s even though a lot of others had moved on to autofocus cameras. I shot slides instead of prints and loved my beloved Kodachrome. I loved my Nikons and had used them for over 30 years. As you can see I used the “professional big boys of the business, Sony, Nikon” when it was the best for me. They might had not been the most cost efficient but did turn out to be frugal because … Continue reading →

Never Being “Trendy” Part 1: Be Ahead of the Trends

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Over the next few articles I will give you a little background in how I got to where I am today. I have never wanted to be “Trendy” in the video business. Even at college I pushed the primitive equipment to the max. At a TV station I modified stuff to work better for me and I used a consumer camera with a 3/4 inch video deck with out telling the engineers. It passed broadcast. I put a 400mm Nikkor on my JVC KY-2000 so I could record President Reagan getting out of his helicopter at his ranch in Santa … Continue reading →

GH2 Lenses for Frugal

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Now that I have a Panasonic GH2, you might want to know which lenses I have bought. Here is a run down of the spending so far. Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH – Excellent wide angle and very tiny for low light. Smallest lens for m4/3rds. Small enough to coat pocket my GH2. Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-140mm F4-5.8 Mega O.I.S. – Great range for daylight shooting with O.I.S. (image stabilization) Panasonic Lumix Leica DG Summilux 25mm F1.4 ASPH – Spectacular, now lives on the camera. Panasonic Lumix G Vario 100-300mm F4-5.6 Mega O.I.S. – Needed for birding and … Continue reading →

Where Is Thunderbolt?

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This a the title of a new article at Larry Jordan’s Blog. He wanted to buy a Thunderbolt drive. From his article: “Anyway, I decided that since one of my editing systems supports Thunderbolt, I would buy a Thunderbolt RAID. Except the only ones on the market seemed to be from Promise Technology. Now I’m sure that Promise is a good company – Apple would not recommend them if they weren’t – but they are not a company I know well, so I decided to look for something else. And, hmmm, there’s not a whole lot else on the market. … Continue reading →

The GH2 gets 30p

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My Panasonic GH2 has gotten a firmware update because Panasonic has released a firmware update for the GH2 camera with some improvements, one of the features being an option for higher video bitrate (quality) and frames per second. This new frame rate is 30p @ 24mps on NTSC cameras and 25p @ 24mps on PAL cameras. This is a big deal for us NTSC people. We now can shoot 30p just like the Canon guys. 30p looks better on the web. 30p looks better on a TV. The new official GH2 firmware is out now, you can download it at … Continue reading →

Frugal Buys The Panasonic GH2

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Many of you will be wondering why I am blogging about the Panasonic GH2 as I have used the Canon 60D. Well, we bought the GH2. Been testing it for weeks. I wanted to try it at NAB but it is sold by the consumer division of Panasonic and they were not at the show. So I finally saw one at a local camera show. I like it very much and it makes a very frugal buy. They are currently in stock on Sale many online sites. Why do I like the GH2 over my Canon 60D? It has an … Continue reading →

JuicedLink’s Robert on Audio Part #1 from Oliviatech

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This is part #1 from Olivia of Olivatech.com chats with audio engineer Robert from JuicedLink to talk a little bit about audio for video. This is very informative. In the second part of this series, Robert will talk about HDSLR audio pre-amp noise, external audio recorders, and options to get best audio without Syncing (you don’t need to do that) in post. Since HDSLRs have notoriously poor audio quality if used the wrong way, Juicedlink has a number of popular products for HDSLRs and SLEs like the DT454 and DS214 which can be seen on the JuicedLink website (click here). … Continue reading →