Recent content by tarzan

Does anyone know why the discussion forums on medialine.com were discontinued? Now that it's gone, this seems to be the only online place where I can do and talk about TV news related issues with other folks who work in the business, but here it's all photos and mostly photog-related issues. I...

First off, just to clarify, mine was NOT a workers comp case: About a half-year ago, I gradually started developing pain and irritation symptoms in my shoulder. Finally I ended up getting rotator cuff surgery to clean out a lot of the sinovitis and bursitis, and I'm now 1 month post-op. Just...

Back around 1994 or so, I remember reading something in News Photographer Magazine that said that on average, 60 TV cameras are stolen each year in the United States. I remember hearing about one Dallas photog who was the victim of a smash-n-grab when she was inside a fast food restaurant for...

When I was first starting out in the business 25 years ago, after my first time shooting game highlights of our local minor league baseball team, the sports anchor gave me a constructive critique of my shooting. Then he asked me if I'd gotten my free hot dogs and soda there, and I said no. He...

The idea to start this thread came to me the other day, when I was shooting a news event using a Panasonic AGHPX600. Someone there (I think he was a fashion print photog) asked me why, if there are so many models of video cameras on the market that shoot "just as good a quality," do so many TV...

...but I think I would just put it up on my refrigerator -I don't think I'd have displayed on the side of my camera while interviewing kids at a school:

So Panasonic now has (perhaps they've had it for a while now) these Micro P2 cards , that can be used with an adapter card: [/]. The micro P2 cards are an SDXC ("Secure Digital Extended Capacity") format, and cost $355.00 on B&H. The adapter cards cost $139.95, so that adds up to $494.95, a...

I recently just accepted a full-time editor job at a commercial TV news operation. I'm also doing the paperwork to do some freelance work on the side on my days off or on my time off on a case-by-case basis. My full-time job would still take precedence over any of the freelance stuff. I still...

The other day I was trying to describe to a young 24-yr-old co-worker what it was like shooting on 3/4-inch format, that the record deck was a separate device from the camera, connected by a cable, etc. "REALLY?" -he said in amazement and surprise. Since then I've been wanting to show him a...

In my market, some stations use P2, others use SxS, but one uses simple SD cards, which are way cheaper that the other two. I was wondering what people think the pros and cons would be of SD cards vs the more expensive card formats, especially considering that a P2 card is really just several...

Are there photogs out there who don't own their own gear and make a good living as freelance photographers? Photogs who rent for their freelance gigs? How often do production companies hire freelancers and provide the gear for them?

When I try to research job interviewing skills online, and a lot of the tips I see seem more geared toward sales oriented people who work in an office all day and/or work with "clients". What are some of the toughest job interview questions you've had to answer in a job interview for a photog...

I'm trying to see if there's a link to a live truck safety video online that actually demonstrates how to do the "bunny hop" from an electrically charged truck and explains the concentric circles. I'm NOT referring to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfloNa2C6mw -even though that's a...

In my 20+ yrs in the business, I've always felt that the most stressful part of operating a live truck is not raising the mast or setting up the signal or troubleshooting problems minutes before air. No, the most stressful part is driving it. With most live trucks I've worked with -actually...

Okay, I already posted this in the Video Editing forum and got no response, so I thought I'd post it here in a more heavily populated forum: At the station I'm working at now, in-house they still have NewsCutter 9, but in the trucks they just upgraded to Newscutter 10. It's almost the same, but...