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The most interesting SDHC/AVCHD camera at the moment is the Panasonic AG-HSC1U, with 3 x 1/4 inch imagers and a 12 x optical Leica designed lens. 3 inch LCD, no viewfinder! Comes with a 40 GB HDD as well for storing/archiving. The price is US$ 1700 (about GBP 900 at the moment). This is the NTSC ver...

Sony have now removed the tape drives from their new generation of small professional cameras and this has made room for a larger imaging block. They now have 3 x 1/2 inch imagers which deliver some very real advantages. The compression used is a variant of MPEG (MPEG2 or AVCHD) at various bit rates...

The only person I know who uses a Panasonic HVX 200 is Bob Forward and you can access his website and connect with him. His website is www.detonationfilms.com I am certainly sitting on my hands as far as recording to cards is concerned until the problems of the recording time, storing. work flow and...

If you haven't heard of it take a look at www.celtx.com for a very useful program for script writing including story boarding and even scheduling. A free download with video tutorials and detailed help at http//wiki.celtx.com available in multiple languages and for Windows, Mac X and Linux OS. I hav...

Thanks, Stephen. At last a sensible article; we can only hope that officialdom reads it and takes notice. A person carrying a backpack is much more likely to be a terrorist than a person wielding a camera.

ned c

Don't be too despondent Willy as it seems you have a thriving club albeit with nowhere to meet at the present. Here in the USA the long established San Jose Club of California has closed its doors due to lack of support. A sad day indeed. Perhaps a discussion with the local aquarium club could find ...

My reading of YouTube is that you can put anything you like on there and if no-one objects it will stay on. As an example take a look at the number of versions of John Denver's Rocky Mountain High set to stills and video!

ned c

I have two personal experiences of objections to videoing. One occasion when my grandson (then 8 years old) played soccer with a local school team in England and I was told to stop videoing or the police would have to be notified. This from the head mistress of the school! The second occasion was in...

The problem faced by most n-c film makers is that our only audience is other n-c film makers and festival judges. There is no general audience that is more interested in the content than the technique. We made a short film (South by South West)that got absolutely nowhere in the Festival world yet we...

Stingman, we need the full story of your colleague who was arrested whilst fiming a carnival. Who arrested him? What for?Was he charged? How did it all end? This is important because otherwise these stories become "urban legends" and it is very difficult to learn from what happened, thanks...

Enjoyable but you need an expert opinion; AMPS the place,

ned c

Thanks Ian, the idea is for people to tell us about relatively unknown equipment/software that they find useful and may help the rest of us.

ned c

Thanks Graeme, Bob is a past President of AMPS and initiated the special genre categories. Yes, he is famous for blowing things up and told us that one of his inspirations was Thunderbirds. His sons starred in the Agent 12 Series which we included in the AMPS UNICA entry bringing down the wrath of t...

Yes, the image is circular but the aspect ratio is determined by the "target", ie 35 mm film, 6cm x 6cm film or CCDs/CMOS chips the circular image is "masked" to give the desired aspect ratio and coverage. The size and aspect ratio of the target in most cases is fixed but on many...

In another thread Mike Shaw gave us updates on the editing software Liquid a not widely known but powerful program. My selection for "GBU" is Final Cut Express 4. Now, this is Mac specific but it does all the things we need at about 1/6 th cost of FCP. It edits HDV, will take mixed formats...