Thunderbolt Macs + Speed

Apple’s recent lineup of laptops and iMacs are fairly impressive and offer a lot of performance for the price. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a better time to get a new computer. Look at the 2011 MacBook Pro 17″ 2.30GHz with 8GB of RAM...

My Feature Film Premiere

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....

Sony F3 Gain Demo + Specs

ARVE Error: need id and provider I got to fondle test the new Sony PMW-F3 digital video camera tonight at Z Systems and I won’t bore you with still photos of the device, mainly because you can look up a lot of them yourself (and the ones with me in them are NSFW...
Lens Options for Sony F3

Lens Options for Sony F3

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...
A Film Triumph

A Film Triumph

The past couple of months has seen a sudden flurry of work, from outdoor location shoots (in the pouring rain, no less) to Fortune 100 corporate green-screen video (to be public soon), to productions featuring animals and babies (ignoring the advice of W.C. Fields)....
Moving Into Motion with DSLRs

Moving Into Motion with DSLRs

Shooting video has been a passion of mine for many years now. But recently, many photographers, social media experts, non-profits, and marketers have been asking me about what it takes to “do video” for their websites or clients. Photographers, especially,...