Using the Canon 5D MkII creates some workflow challenges which can be overcome with a little thought. I have started shooting a documentary with this camera and work with a sound recordist to record up to four sound sources on a multi-track solid state recorder (currently the Zoom H4N). There are a couple of additional issues …
I have two 23″ Apple monitors. The one I bought new in Feb 2005 works perfectly. The one I bought second-hand in 2008 has started refusing to wake from sleep. Initially I solved the problem by plugging in a tiny USB LED light, which kept it active, but in the last week it’s started to …
A project that started in 1993 on Hi-8 has recently taken up again. At the time I made a short 11-minute film about Charles Walker Hazzard, a fine art sculptor, but in 2005 I shot some 12 hours on DV. An unfunded project, the second time my camera was a Panasonic AG-DVX100, a great standard definition (SD) camera …