Sunday, April 13, 2008

Sony Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 0

Adam Wilt | 04/13- 10:17 PM

Some highlights of what Sony is showing

PMW-EX3 with 2/3” cine lens, Sony HDD recorder

Sony’s Juan Martinez gave me a night-before-the-show tour of the Sony booth (really a miniature city; “booth” doesn’t do it justice), and here are some of the highlights from a camera operator’s perspective.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Locking HDMI cables!

Adam Wilt | 04/11- 10:44 AM

Finally, a non-self-ejecting HDMI cable

Left: normal HDMI cable. Right: locking HDMI cable. Note the cantilevered paddle with two tiny retention hooks.

A colleague and I were discussing the sorry state of the physical HDMI connection; we call it a “self ejecting” technology. HDMI cables fall out of HDMI sockets with surprising ease. Fortunately there’s now a solution to this problem: a locking plug that works with any HDMI socket. 

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

We’re Off To See The Wizard

Chris Meyer | 04/09- 10:22 PM

NAB always brings the promise of finding that secret ingredient we need to make us better at what we do.

It’s been awfully quiet around here lately...too quiet. But you know why: It’s the week before NAB (the National Association of Broadcasters) Convention, the largest annual industry trade show for those of us in North America), and we’re all hunkered down either a) finishing projects before NAB, b) getting our presentations ready for NAB, c) making out our shopping lists for NAB, or d) all of the above.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Review: Camhandle camera support

Adam Wilt | 04/06- 07:22 PM

Renegade tripod handle makes handheld shooting smoother.

The $220 Camhandle looks like a tripod handle gone AWOL from its tripod. Its attachment plate bolts to the underside of the camera, and it hangs off the left front side. It looks goofy, but it works surprisingly well. I tested it for two weeks on the notoriously hard-to-handhold PMW-EX1.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Three three-letter cameras: EX1, F23, RED

Adam Wilt | 03/16- 08:24 PM

An unfair comparison of three entirely different cameras

On March 7th, Tim Blackmore and I visited Videofax, a San Francisco camera rental house. Videofax is unique in the area (as far as I know) in having both a RED ONE digital cinema camera and a Sony F23 HDCAM-SR camcorder. Videofax’s Leigh Blicher kindly invited us to come by and take a look, following the DCS RED Event the previous weekend. How could we refuse?

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

PMW-EX1 Update 2

Adam Wilt | 02/27- 09:58 AM

Corrections and details

• Adam Van Voorhis of Boston Camera says that the EX1 does indeed supply Y/C video, using the same VMC-15FS cable that works on the HVR-V1.
• Reader Mark Weiss ran a formal audio analysis for line-level inputs, with interesting results.

My EX1 review has been updated with these tidbits. 

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