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Equipment
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I am saddened that for yet another year, I'm unable to attend the annual NAB Show in Vegas. It truly is a production guy/gals ultimate toystore, tech school and playground. (If you've never been, think of the NAB Show as the B&H Superstore in NYC x 1000... Yes, it's that BIG of a show.) Ne...read more
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Gotta say, I think this is by far the coolest piece of new gear I've seen in a long time. It's a new camera stabilizer system called the Movi that looks to be considerably easier to use and more versatile than most of the the Steadicam and Glidecam-style stabilizer rigs. It can smoothly capture s...read more
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Here's a very intriguing new KickStarter project that could shake a few things up in the world of film lighting. LED's have slowly, but surely been working their way onto more and more film sets. LED lighting units have become popular for their high light output relative to their low power consumpti...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: LED Lighting, Lumapad, Richard Haberkern
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Here's a very brilliant and entertaining bit of filmmaking by Russian filmmaker, Ilya Naishuller, in the form of a an ultra-violent ultra-viral first-person shooter music video entitled "Bad Motherf***er". Apart from excellent stunt work and editing, this video is particularly notable in that it w...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Go Pro Hero Cam, GoPro, Ilya Naishuller, Music Video
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Gotta say this little company keeps impressing me with it's new products and product improvements... The hip people at GoPro who brought you the first simple affordable and tiny HD action cams, then brought 3D to the masses with the GoPro 3D Hero System, and who most-recently added remote control G...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: action camera, Black Edition, GoPro, HERO 3, sports camera
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Just came across a very cool audio trick from Linden Hudson at LocationSoundMixer.com. It is the very essence of the Down and Dirty Filmmaking philosophy that I just wrote about in my previous post. It's a simple and brilliant example of how to creatively diagnose and solve your everyday filmm...read more
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As some of you know from my Guerrilla Film Tactics seminar I'm more of a proponent of "accessing" cameras and equipment rather than buying them, which I think is only necessary if you shoot a lot or need long-term and continuous camera access for a documentary project. I'm approaching a project th...read more
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For the last few months I've been blogging about the emergence of the new class of "Super-chip" (my term) video cameras, which I would basically describe as dedicated prosumer video cameras that have image chips that are roughly the equivalent of DSLR imaging chips. One of the most buzzed about cam...read more
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So as expected, the buzz from the annual NAB Show in Vegas is making it's way out into the universe as all the video manufacturer's drop their latest digital goodies. This is the probably the first N.A.B. Show I've missed in 6 years, so it's killing me to have to monitor the developments from afar. ...read more
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As you know, I've been exploring the blossoming new world of cellphone cinema on this blog lately and have discovered many cool new hardware and software tools that make cell phone cinema something to be taken seriously. Well, add to the list this unique little tool called Galileo that ups the c...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Galileo, iOS, iPhone, iPod Touch, Pan Tilt Head