Mr Smith’s Peach Seeds – a short documentary shot on DSLR by Stewart Copeland
Guest post by Stewart Copeland One year ago, I came across a picture of Roger Smith, showing him towering over his diorama of a baseball stadium. Spectators lined the balsa wood bleachers and players covered the felt field. Each person – there were more than a hundred in all – was meticulously carved from the...
‘Inside the story’ – Charity E-book aims to be a masterclass in digital storytelling
By Adam Westbrook What does it take to tell remarkable stories on the web? It’s always been a bit of a mystery to me. Some films, slideshows and websites rack up tens of thousands of hits in a week, while others seemingly go unnoticed. What isn’t a mystery is how important good storytelling is. Although...
‘West Away’, a short DSLR film about the search for unridden waves in remote South Australia
Guest post by Mark Tipple Ocean : West Away from Mark Tipple on Vimeo. The idea behind West Away: A number of years ago I used to meet up with my friends Mike and Luke in various remote parts of the country to spend a week surfing, camping in the dirt and telling stories; then...
New gadget roundup: Rycote mic suspension, Thinktank bags, Triggertap iphone DSLR trigger and Blackrapid lenscaps
By site editor Dan Chung Rycote mic covers: Microphone accessory manufacturer Rycote have launched a few products that may interest real world shooters. Firstly there is the new Softie Lyre mount with MHR. The kit consists of the ingenious Lyre mic suspension (the hotshoe mount version of which is already popular with DSLR shooters) modified...
NAB 2012: Things we wish we’d had a chance to see
By site editor Dan Chung Every year we get back from NAB and realise that there was equipment that we should have reported but somehow missed. This year is no exception but our good friends at FreshDV and Wideopencamera were there to get the interviews we didn’t. Here are a few of the things we...
Nikon D800 Moire solution on the way from Mosaic engineering
By site editor Dan Chung: One of the main concerns I had when testing video on the Nikon D800 was moire in some images. This is almost certainly the result of the way Nikon engineers are binning pixels to downscale an image to 1080P from a much higher resolution 36MP sensor. This moire patterning was...
NAB 2012: Nikon D800 and Atomos Ninja 2 now working in harmony
By site editor Dan Chung: When I recently tested the Nikon D800 and Canon 5D mkIII side by side in New York the one thing that I could not test was the quality of D800 footage when recorded externally. The clean 1080P HDMI output of the D800 is one of its most talked about features....
NAB 2012: D-Focus cage for Panasonic GH2
By technical editor Matt Allard: D-Focus were showing a new cage for the Panasonic GH2 at NAB this year. It features a rugged metal construction with full access to ports and battery compartment. Price and availability yet to be announced. They also have an interesting gadget called the D-Zoom – a simple zoom lever which...
NAB 2012: Genus show new Cheeseplate accessories and monitor arm
By technical editor Matt Allard:
Robert from Genus talked to me about the company’s new Cheese range of accessories and their new monitor arm. The Genus arm is actually manufactured by Noga.
Shot and edited by Scott Karlins.
NAB 2012: Pluraleyes 3.0 preview from Singular software
By site editor Dan Chung: In this video Bruce Sharpe of Singular software demonstrates the upcoming version 3.0 release. The software features a video and audio interface and is ten to twenty times faster than Pluraleyes 2. Bruce also discusses Cloudeyes – a cloud based audio video sync utility for developers. Video shot by Matt...
NAB 2012: Litepanels Croma panel and ENG Sola lighting kits
By technical editor Matt Allard: Litepanels were showing a couple of newer products suitable for news shooters at NAB 2012. The Sola ENG on camera lights is a powerful, focusable LED light designed for on camera use or as part of the new 3 head Sola lighting kit. The Croma is a smaller bi-colour LED...
NAB 2012: Lectrosonics new waterproof wireless lav transmitter and new handheld wireless reporters mic
By technical editor Matt Allard:
In this video we check out the new Lectrosonics waterproof wireless lav transmitter and also their new handheld wireless reporters mic.
Video shot and edited by Scott Karlins.
