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We're looking around for a good HMI single light, probably in the 400-575W range, that would be good for an add-in sunbuster for a live truck. Yes, we know they're not cheap. We're positive of that. The question I'm getting at is, "I know what I would really want, but in reality, what is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJH9F7Hcluo&feature=player_embedded#at=932 Street photography is still a crime in Britain, according to security guards. When a London Street Photographer meetup decides to shoot out in the city, hilarity ensues, and they brought video to prove it. Also...

Hey guys, if anyone is going out to NAB, please give us some impressions on the forum about the current offerings of camera-top LED lights that are available out there. The office is looking at getting a whole new set of lights, or at least exploring it. We don't have a rep out there, so if...

I know this is becoming a gear threadfest lately, but we're about to get into rainy season, and I'd like a real raincoat this time around that I won't boil in. Any suggestions would be nice, my range is going to be $100 or over. However, if I'm paying over $100 it better come with a Batman...

I always get a kick out of these. In celebration of the 'machinima' web video where the intern says "I prefer to have a seasoned photojournalist do the technical work,' let's revisit that old chestnut of favorite things an intern has said to you. I'll start the old ball rolling... This...

Yesterday, I was texted during a funeral. Pick up an extra story. No address, no other information but, 'We need this, it's in the city on the way home.' No follow up call. One message. One vibration. I was deep in a funeral. They knew I was in a funeral. I missed it. We were behind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB1UqGmZdcg This is it, the working prototype of the new Micro-4/3rds Panasonic camera system with interchangeable lenses. Expect a starting street price of around 10k USD or more when decked out with a few lenses. Although this little monster is not...

I got a chance at work to shoot the famous reggae band, 'The Wailers,' on a theatrical blue stage. Fine by me. In the back of my mind, I was noticing that ALL of the light banks that were being used, keys, throws, and everything was not only theatrical blue, but was LED. And here I am on...

*Be warned, potty words are in this clip* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

Introducing new smaller form factor XF100 and XF105 small size 50Mbs 4:2:2 camera... a day early before the CanonExpo, as well as the 60D. If they're releasing these BEFORE the Expo, that means that they might have something to talk about on Sept. 2nd and 3rd. Or at least tease the future...

I was rolling around the city with an intern the other day... and after trying to explain photography, I thought it was interesting that I couldn't point to a place or a group of rules that said, basically, what to do to make sure you're NOT messing up in video or ruining your shoot. I was...

The other day in a thread someone was talking about how important it was to use an HD lens over an SD lens. I thought that was hilarious. People, what makes a lens HD? Seriously? What is it? Short of changing of the overall intake shape of the light, there just CANNOT be a difference...

If you look up the dates for sweeps this year, the entire month of July is in it, again. Boy, do I love those Nielsen guys. They can't start the ratings period on July 6th? They screw countless hundreds of people over pulling that crap. Of course, when you're the Nielsen people...

According to this story, which is pretty amazing, a staffer at '48 Hours' decided to blackmail Letterman over a sex scandal involving staffers at CBS. 2 million bucks is what they wanted. What they got was arrested for grand larceny. Letterman owned up to his dalliances on TV last...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY This just makes me laugh. Lord knows how many times a person, who represents a group of people with millions of dollars, wants you to do something for them for free... (My favorite is, of course, CNN.) ("Hi, um, this is CNN, and we heard that...

So you think we have it bad when an officer redlines on a stop, check out this story: The long and short of it is there is a person being transported, and a state trooper pulls over an ambulance team on a patient run, and then arrests the crew chief for bad behavior because he's defending his...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8074922.stm Thought you'd enjoy it. It's about Bill McKenna, who is the top editor in Washington this year, and he didn't do a piece showing off his best work, he did a piece about what goes through his head every day. A little mind candy for ya.

I was reading 'The Cow' this week and it had a great article from John Galt of Panavision about HD, resolutions, megapixels vs. marketing pixels. Galt works on the Genesis platform, and spends his days trying to squeeze image quality out of computers, sensors, and huuuge film lenses. I think...

As I am a regular poster on B-Roll, and most people keeping score think that I'm in the anti-NPPA camp, I'd like to say that after thumbing through this months News Photographer magazine (with the cover arresting journalists,) I think that it was a damn good one. If this is an example of where...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SEX_PREDATOR_STING?SITE=AP It's an interesting read. Here's the difference in this case and most 'Catch a Predator' episodes: As usual, someone impersonated a child online, at the watchful eye of law enforcement. When the Dateline crew got stood...