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Field-Testing the HPX300

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

When director Bryan Gunnar Cole and cinematographer Peter Nelson headed to North Florida to shoot wildlife footage at the 7,000-acre White Oak Conservation Center, the first production question that had to be answered was which camera system to use. They ended up wrangling a pre-release version of the AG-HPX300 P2 camcorder....

Audio Guru Jim Flynn Talks 26 Years of Gear

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

After 26 years in the business, Jim Flynn Rentals has established a reputation as a go-to for New York area audio, supplying gear for everything from soap-opera musical guests to the upcoming Broadway version of Spider-Man, mounted by Julie Taymor with music by Bono and The Edge....

Nice Shoes Integrates Guava, Upgrades Color-Grading Rooms

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

Change is afoot at Nice Shoes, the New York commercial post facility that recently invested more than $3 million to upgrade its color-correction rooms from their long-standing da Vinci suites to brand-new Baselight EIGHT systems....

InterSense VCam Creates Real Camera Moves in Virtual Space

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT

Watching what companies like Sony Imageworks and DreamWorks Animation have been doing with technology originally developed for simulation and training and interactive immersive display rooms, InterSense has introduced the VCam, a virtual camera tracking system aimed primarily at feature-film animation and game-development....

Anamorphic HD, 48 FPS Movies, and Video From the Moon

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST

At the SMPTE Technical Conference at Exhibition in Hollywood, a technical session on “Image Acquisition,” chaired by Panasonic Broadcast product engineering manager Bill Hogan, looked at six very different topics related to digital camera technology....