Need an all-in-one roller or backpack bag for your video DSLR gear that is good for airline/international travel and fits your 17″ laptop? I can easily recommend ThinkTank bags. I just did a whirlwind video shoot in the Tuscany region of Italy and immediately knew it would be a DSLR shoot versus a large-camcorder shoot.…
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At long last. After three years of laboring behind the camera, in front of the editing computer, over weekends and late nights, we have a finished feature film. TRIUMPH67 premieres on Friday, April 15th, 7:00pm at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. I’d love to see you there! I shot, edited and co-produced this narrative drama…
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A very quick video test of the Sony PMW-F3 video camera at high gain settings and the rundown on the pre-launch specs and features.
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AbelCine has a new brief posting with an overview of lenses for Sony’s F3 camera coming out next month. I’m very excited by the possibilities of different glass on this new camera as the old Sony EX3 had interchangeable lenses but the reality wasn’t of much use, due to magnification factors of up to 5.4X on 35mm lenses (one of the drawbacks of the smaller 1/2″ sensor but great for wildlife/extreme telephoto work). The new Nikon and Canon adaptors for the F3 still have a slight magnification of about 1.5X with full frame lenses.
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The past couple of months has seen a sudden flurry of work, from outdoor location shoot to Fortune 100 corporate green-screen video, to productions featuring animals and babies. But the thing I’m most excited about, personally, is the feature film I shot, edited and co-produced, TRIUMPH67, is now off to the major film festivals and virtually complete!
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Canon T2i 4k Firmware Prank
There was a lot of internet buzz amongst the DSLR community in the past 48-hours when it was recently announced (leaked, teased… make up your own definition there) on YouTube and various other blogs that some intrepid hackers had come up with a firmware hack for the Canon T2i/550d DSLR camera (you know, the one…
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