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Folks, it's been a long time. I'm soliciting advice from F5/F55 owner users regarding accessories they have purchased for those cameras. Specifically I am wondering if any of you have any strong ideas regarding a camera cage/handles/follow focus set up. I have the Sony shoulder mount but it...

Mornin' Fellas (and ladies?) Got an editing question. I own two digital recorders -- a nanoFlash and a PIX240. Usually when clients request a particular editing codec I just dial it into one of these boxes, copy the files onto a hard drive and deliver the material. To be honest, my ignorance...

Fellow freelancers. Not a of the old guard left around here. I have been scouring the internet looking at articles about contemporary electronic cinematography technologies to learn more about contemporary cameras and how they process images. Back in the days of Betacam I really tried to...

Hello folks. Long time since I've been here. I have a question and thought what better place to ask it --- Has anyone ever worked for Scott Prewitt? Out of Florida. Had an inquiry from him. You can email me if you'd like. t.fahey@comcast.net

I bought four Transcend 32GB Compact Flash cards from B&H to work with my Nanoflash. With several months, two of them are dead. has anyone had this problem? Is there one brand of CF card that is better than another? Thanks

I shot some footage in a car using a unit that records on AVCHD. It captured the footage on Memory Stick Pro media. Now I would like to import the footage into my Mac and then put it on a portable drive. I have the newest MacBook Pro and I also have Final Cut version 7. Can anyone tell me how to...

Many of you folks know that I have been a member here for many years. I am a freelance television photographer and the majority of my work came/comes from the US networks. It is no great surprise to me that that source of work is decreasing as the years go by. I could see the change coming years...

I would love to hear from Nano Flash owners/users now that that unit has been on the market for a while. I am almost certain to get one of these in the next week or so. I have used it before and found that it takes some getting used to. There is a learning curve, as with any piece of TV...

This past Friday I found a piece of gear sitting on the street that a local news photographer had forgotten. Email me at t.fahey@comcast.net if this might be you.

Gentlemen Hello: I have a question for you all. I have insured myself and my equipment through the same broker for the past decade or more. It's not something I really ever get into. I just pay the silly premium. I have my equipment covered -- maybe $125K of it or so. And I have liability...

The Betacam is getting very dusty as it sits on the shelf. It seems like only yesterday we argued endlessly about which format would replace it. Were any of us right? Tough to remember. This business -- being a freelance television photographer -- is a lot like the stock market. You can really...

The purchase of 51% of NBC Universal by Comcast is hugely important. And it is a harbinger of things to come in the broadcast and cable industries. There is a very solid likelihood that the days of three national broadcast networks are numbered. Cable networks developed while under pressure to...

Has anyone solved this issue to their satisfaction? I know of three -- maybe four -- options by reading this forum and talking to a sales rep. There is 1. The P2 recorder -- bulky, not for handheld the 2. Firestore products -- but they are apparently bankrupt and Panasonic has severed relations...

Have any HDX900 owner/users noticed that the viewfinders on these cameras fog up with very little provocation? I am always fighting to look through a haze when I hand hold this camera. I know about the sprays intended for swimming or diving goggles. Does anyone know of another solution? I was...

I witnessed and interesting contrast today while watching an ABC producer and a newspaper writer cover the same story. A lot of the Somali pirate story is being generated out of Massachusetts. ABC covered it at the Mass Maritime Academy as did the Boston globe. The ABC producer has a PD150 and...

I had to get away from the Michael Rosenblum bloodbath on the other thread. But I was struck as I wrote that there isn't more of a defense for human interest stories. To me a human interest story is a report that delves into the lives, experiences or current circumstances of people. It's not a...

I am shooting an SD project that requires DVCPro50 tape. The editing house has a Panasonic AJ-HD1400 VTR that will down-convert from HD to SD. They are working with an AVID system. I am wondering if I shoot with my HDX900 -- and not the SDX900 -- at 720/30p, will the AJ-HD1400 be able to...

Tonight CBS debuts a new program from the production crew at 48 Hours. It's called "Lived To Tell" and thus far three episodes have been shot. I have some familiarity with tonight's show on a number of different levels. I am looking forward to seeing it. I know it was shot in HD with a slicker...

There are so many smaller HD cameras out there I am really confused about which one to buy -- if I were to buy one. And I am considering getting one very soon. The problem I see with these cameras is that they record HD on one media (tape or card) but not another. I don't think image quality is...

Folks, I hope you all have a great year in 2009. Things are looking a bit grim. But they've looked that way before. Next year at this time we'll probably have some very interesting stories to tell about how we coped in adverse times. May you all find the silver lining in this cloud of economic...