Sony F3 hands on Press Launch “London 2010″
Not long to go now and I will be down in London at the press launch of the new Sony F3 Super 35mm camcorder. Sony have released more updated photographs of this camera with their CineAlta badge on the LCD, I hope we are going to play with production mo...
Design a Camera “What the designers should know”
It’s very strange but from the word go the Sony F3 has landed itself in a fierce debate with DPs all over the globe, our main head scratching is Sony’s design team’s decision to make such a Hi-end product 35Mbs, 4:2:0. Now I have be...
500,000 visitors to HD Warrior…A Big Thank You
Fantastic…HD Warrior has just clocked up over half a million visitors the the site…a big thank you to everyone who looks in daily and to my regulars who post comments as well. Mega exiting times, I am off to London on Tuesday as a guest of ...
Philip Blooms findings on using the Panasonic AG-AF101
Philip Bloom “So here are my thoughts on the camera, based upon this pre-production model so some of this may change! It was a real pleasure to shoot with, despite not being overly familiar with Panny menus I got used to them pretty quickly. I di...
CVP win a contract to supply the BBC with 50 Canon XF305 camcorders
The BBC’s DV solutions department have today placed an official order for 50 units of the Canon XF305 compact HD camcorder with CVP, the UK’s largest supplier of Canon HD equipment. The XF305 is the first compact camcorder to provide 50Mb...
Philip Bloom and Barry Green testing Panasonics new AG-AF100 in Japan
Philip Bloom is writing the first user review of the Panasonic AG-AF101 as I write as he has just spent the last few days over in sunny Japan testing a near production camera. He has just produced a film using the AF100 (AF101 Europe) and you can see i...
Sony enter a RED patch with the F3 FilmLike camcorder
TALKING ABOUT THE SONY F3 “The noise figure of 63db is extremely impressive. The pictures I saw at IBC were some of the cleanest video images that I have ever seen. Noise performance is crucial in this market as most commercials and movies will r...
CVP & Holdan Roadshow 23-24th November 2010 in Glasgow
CVP invite you to get HANDS-ON with the latest video technology at the Holdan Roadshow. We’ll have a range of Panasonic AVCHD camcorders, including the AG-HCK10 POV and the much-talked-about Panasonic AG-3DA1 3D which we’ll be demonstrating...
A note to other manufacturers and retailers !
This is just to make a point to other manufacturers, Sony have always supplied large 20MP TIFFs of all their products and this gives bloggers like myself a head start when promoting and blogging about their products. I have a simple policy that I stick...
Calling All Advanced Shooters
CALLING ALL ADVANCED SHOOTERS: DV Talent brings its acclaimed ‘Shooting and Directing 360º’ course to Glasgow. “Hands On, Full On. Highly practical, excellent value for money and time spent.” Uli Hesse, Shooting AP/Director. ‘Concentrated ...



