Category Archives: Video

Happy Holidays!

The Merry Irishwoman Cocktail

Here’s to 2011 and a fab­u­lous 2012 for you all! This video recipe for The Merry Irish Woman is a deli­cious hol­i­day cock­tail that you and your friends will enjoy. Make ‘em big and strong and have a very merry one!

Sony FS100 Review

Sony FS100 Rig Left Side

The Super-35mm sen­sor Sony FS100 video cam­era has been out on the mar­ket for sev­eral weeks now and yet there still seems to be con­fu­sion and a lack of good hands-on mate­r­ial. Prob­a­bly because those that have the cam­era are hav­ing so much fun shoot­ing with it that they haven’t made time to sit down and type up their thoughts and expe­ri­ences! Cer­tainly since the FS100 showed up around here we have been very busy shoot­ing work or fea­ture film footage — and enjoy­ing almost every minute of it!

What It Is: A great replace­ment for the Sony EX1/EX3 and any DSLR for film­mak­ing. Like the off­spring of the EX3 and the Canon 7D, with the abil­ity to use most any lens you might have access to. A cam­era with a real work­flow for shoot­ing. A true 1080/60p device. A low-light rock star.

What It Isn’t: A DSLR killer (although it is pretty close). The Arri Alexa Mini or the RED Epic Mini. Why? Read on…

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. I’d love to see you there! I shot, edited and co-produced this nar­ra­tive drama…

Sony F3 Gain Demo + Specs

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.

Canon T2i 4k Firmware Prank

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…