IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

What should you look for? I think you need to give us more information or we could be heading off on the wrong path. Are you thinking in terms of an underwater housing maybe? Or do you want XLR inputs for better microphones? Are you happy to stay with MiniDV tape or do you want to go flash memory or...

I've just re-clicked the link Peter, and the pictures are all there. Did you look on page 2 as well?

You can see some good photos of Sony's hood screen at the bottom of this page:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/sony-hvr-z5- ... x1000.html

Pleased to say my copy of FVM arrived over a week early this month, and a well done to the hard-working Garth Hope. Some good stuff on board, too. Ken Wilson always makes me laugh with his Strange but True tales; Howard Gregory is so right when he says loudspeaker size matters; Reg Lancaster writes ...

I shall discuss, Peter. Yes, the Hood Pro will fit perfectly and work beautifully on the Z5, FX1000 and Z7. Their screen resolutions are far higher than the Z1 and FX1, and because of this the Hood Pro works well. The Z1's screen is much better in direct sunlight than any of these hi-rez screens but...

Of course you've got to consider if spending £500 on a 6 year old SD camcorder with tiny 1"/5 chips is a sensible thing to do in light of Canon's HV30 price. I tested the PDX10 for Computer Video magazine in 2003 and sorry to say but I was not impressed. Things are a-changin', and I'm sure that...

Did you find out what caused that huge PDX10 failure Dave? Could the heads have been damaged by running a crumpled tape past them? It wasn't just a microphone failure causing the audio loss, was it? The Canon 5DII is an interesting beast but an ergonomic nasty for shooting movies I would think. It's...

Mike, I'm pretty sure SD cards will be cheaper per GB than tape pretty soon. Already it's closing in on £1/GB for SD cards - ok, nowhere near the 13 GB per pound for Sony Premium Mini DV tape, but if it's a straight line graph from the cost of 512 mB 10 years ago, they'll be giving away 2 gig cards ...

The adjustable preset will be on the Yelco's speed control's PCB, Mike. It's an end of line adjustment and not meant to be touched once set, but I was always twiddling mine on my Noris Studio 2000

Thank you Willi, your thoughts on my thoughts are much appreciated. I always think a film has taken a month, three months, maybe a year to make, yet here am I writing a few paragraphs about it that take perhaps 15 minutes to put down. It's unfair, and cannot possibly do the filmmaking toil and tears...

In a consumer society run by capitalists we are indeed all made of money. If we weren't, we'd all just die and fall off the planet. If you don't, can't or won't earn it, you'll be given it by the state. Sony, Panasonic, JVC and your baker all want some of this money. They give it to their workers an...

OK Chris, here's fresh-eyed tom at the keyboard. Best thing is that the film looks to be well controlled, not too ambitious so that it creaks, not to static so that it groans. The actors play their parts well and the photography is good and clean, the audio excellent, the lighting natural, the story...

We're all judges Chris. I sit in front of my TV every night, remote in hand, passing judgement by flipping to another channel when I deem they've lost me for whatever reason. So you don't need your film seen by a judge, you just need it seen by a fresh pair of eyes. I'd happily be that fresh pair of...

I shoot everything 16:9, full stop. That includes my 4:3 ciné film transfers, where the film frame sits in the middle of a black 16:9 rectangle. That way the 4:3 original can't be stretched or distorted by a TV set to automatic. I used to mask down bits of my 16:9 films, so that a section would be b...

Um, yes David - his web site explains this clearly.