Recent content by rocky1138

Anyone know where I can get some old Betacam SP Pal tapes? I have a PVW-2600P deck that I'm trying to test out, & guess what, NTSC tapes don't play too well at 25fps. (Who'd a throught?)

I am looking for an extra used wireless set & found a cheap Lectrosonics CR185/M185 VHF set that works fairly well. I've had (mostly) good experience using Lectro gear for the stations I've worked for, but don't have the cash to get one of the nicest new sets. I'm wondering what opinions you...

anyone else heard of this? Dish Network just bragged that they are adding 22 HD channels, then pulled 15 HD commercial free channels (the whole Voom line up) in a matter of hours. I was about to get Dish as soon as I bought my HDTV (long over due) but now I might stick to my Bluray movies &...

the new Sony XDCam / EX camera has just been announced & Philip is one of the luckiest guys in our world right now http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/XDCAMEX3.html this update of the EX1 makes Canon's update from last week of the XL-H1 to the XL-H1s / XL-H1a look like Canon just took...

So I have been using the DVC-Pro AJ-D410AP for a lot of local news & while this camera is not built for ENG work, it does produce a very nice picture in comparison to a worn down DXC-537. The main thing that I'm looking for is if someone could tell me what the lux rating on this camera is. I'm...

So need some protective scrims / screens for some lowel lights and was wondering if anyone knows what material they're made of. You Can get about 3sq ft of aluminium screen for $0.78 at the hardware store, but that stuff seems to start smoking when hot. So I was wondering if anyone knew what...

so I was just at Ace Hardware & was looking at their light bulbs & noticed they had a number of halogen bulbs on the rack. so I'm wondering if anyone knows if these lamps would work in lower (or the like) pro light kits? all of the bulbs I saw looked identical to some Lowel Tota bulbs, but...

so a short question which will most likely get a lot of long answers, nonetheless... why is it that local sports guys care so much about being able to shoot their own NFL coverage, but are fine w/ using network feeds for NBA, MLB, NHL, Nascar, etc. ?

it seems to be the in thing now all the cool students, photogs and now babies are getting tasered! who will be next? http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071014_1_A14_hThem37577

so I've been at my current station for more than a little bit of time, but not a lot, and my schedule is still the same as it was on day 1. now I know some shops it takes a decades to get off weekends & land a more "normal" schedule. but since I started half a dozen photogs have been hired & I...

title says it all http://youtube.com/watch?v=EY-F0Yl_UJA ...aaaaaaannnnnnnnnd discuss.

I was recently thinking what good is a sound guy? who uses them? for what? and why? if I just pissed some people off then good, hopefully this thread will get some more responses. b/c I really would like to know more about soundies. now I'm not talking about good audio, I totally believe...

so I was talking w/ a co-worker of mine about crime scenes, police, suspects & over-all journalistic ethics, and I was wondering what some people thought about these "generic" situations. (more or less, our converstation was about not being involved in the story.) say you're sent to a fire...

have a few seconds, watch a few movies. http://youtube.com/watch?v=LRjEp6vsOzQ

for all the people who scoff at $30k a year as poverty, this is not for you for the rest of who have found a way to live on less than what a teacher makes while doing what we love, here is something for your tummy that my tummy really enjoys 1st: save up your food stamps by living on white...