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The Leatherman or Gerber Multi-tool is a mainstay of the TV News Photographer. Who knows when your going to need to tighten some camera screws, strip some wires or open a bottle of wine. These heavy duty “swiss-army knives” are the perfect all-purpose tool. Gerber is about to release the Gerber Steady, a multi-tool with [...]

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Feeling that your DSLR rig isn’t “Bad-Ass” enough? Redrock Micro has your solution with the new Redrock|Ops product line. Made to survive anything you can through at it and available in modern camouflage. Now this totally makes sense for a embedded DP covering the military like Danfung Dennis did for Frontline but something tells me [...]

From: CineTechnica In just a few weeks, IBC begins in Amsterdam. The European version of the Vegas Broadcast show isn’t as monstrous as NAB, but still sneaks in a few exciting announcements. The latest news from Panasonic includes a new camera model – the HPX3100. Basically they shoved a 2/3″ chip of the HPX3000 in [...]

The headline of this post dates me. I’m a child of the 80′s and I was a big fan of the famous Tommy Tutone track musing about Jenny’s phone number on a bathroom wall. While it has nothing to do with this story – that song has been in my head all day today after [...]

JVC Professional Products, a division of JVC U.S.A., announced today that Hearst Television, a station group based in New York City that reaches about 18 percent of U.S. television households through its 29 television stations, is standardizing on JVC GY-HM100 ProHD camcorders for its Next Generation Newsroom Project, a new initiative that expands local news coverage.

There are thousand’s of new innovations in the Las Vegas Convention Center for this year’s NAB. 90% were either connected to a DSLR or were in 3D. The noise from the debate over formats and chip sizes drowns out most talk on the floor. I’m a user not an engineer,  so I don’t jump into [...]