Videomaker demos Sony’s NXCAM Super 35mm Camcorder, the NEX FS-100 and finds some drawbacks like the need for a lock for the LCD screen when using the detachable viewfinder and a weight imbalance on the hand grip, but is surprised at how well the camera performs.
The PRO35 2/3“ converter is used for all 2/3” camcorders from Sony, Panasonic, Thomson, etc. with a standard B4 camera mount.
With a host of brand new features designed to enhance every facet of the photographic process, from still images to video, the new EOS 7D represents a whole new class of camera. See which projects Big City has used the Canon 7D on…
This camera is versatile and affordable way of shooting HD video while implementing a tapeless workflow. It comes functional with raft of frame-rate choices for slo-motion as well as formats such as 720 24p and 1080i, the later of which is not true 1080 but just the 720 converted on the fly. It supports solid-state P2 media as well as mini DV tape if you haven’t ditched it altogether as yet.
Time was we’d go out with our Sony PD-150 or Canon XL1 or Sony Hi8 camera the VX3 hoping that this time it would be different and that we wouldn’t come back footage that had that “video look.” The 60i or interlaced field non-aesthetically-pleasing feel. Again and again we’d come back disappointed because our projects did have the gravitas of the film image. And on the days when we shot on expensive cameras like Beta and DigiBeta, it just felt worse and as if money had been flushed down the drain. Enter the revolutionary Panasonic DVX 100 camcorder…
