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I used to buy a carload full of film a couple of times a year from Kodak in Oak Brook, Illinois, and never had any kind of account with them. Just walked in and asked for what I wanted. (I was a...

I prefer a cardioid mic for hand-held interviews, and use a Sennheiser MD46, either wired to the camera or with an SKP100 transmitter. (With this, the MD42, RE50 or Rode Reporter, phantom power...

Could be a SD card problem, too -- in which case you wouldn't have heard it during recording even if you had been monitoring with headphones. Just on general principle, I think I would retire that...

Yup, my story was the same -- waited three months for that little box'o'joy. I've gotten extra value out of it by using it as a prop at school (I teach computer and media classes) where I make an...

Does it sound the same when playing the original clip directly off the SD card using a plain viewer program, or could this have been caused when transferring media or importing the data into your...

I used to install similar automatic tracking pan/tilt mounts in the distance learning classrooms I designed -- they could follow a teacher as they moved around the room. One version even zoomed the...

The market for heads with a 60 kg capacity is quite limited, hence the high prices. Most of us would not want to lug around a tripod big and heavy enough to support that much weight; no recent...

Your wiring seems OK, but wouldn't it be easier just to get a D-Tap splitter like this:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/204182-REG/Anton_Bauer_POWERTAP_MULTI_PowerTap_Multi.html

- Greg

My "go to" rig for ENG style interviewing where a visible handheld mic is visually acceptable is the SKP100/MD46 combination, which works just fine (subject to the occasional vagaries of wireless...

It sounds like your Rode lav is defective, but don't condemn the line in general because of one bad experience. I have four of them and they work fine into all the cameras, wireless transmitters and...

Well, technically, if you hang a weight from a rod supported at each end, it will always bow a little -- increasing the length or weight or decreasing the stiffness of the rod will make it bow more. ...

You do realize that $150 is probably an unrealistically low budget for what you're trying to do, right?

That said, I'd say your best chance is to haunt eBay and Carigslist looking for a used,...

The slider is the only one of these that will actually allow you to make shots you couldn't create otherwise, so it is most likely to make a difference to the client. The tripod head may improve the...

I have a Tascam 40-4 in my basement that I still use for the occasional digitizing of any 1/4" tapes I encounter. (This was the slightly newer big brother of the Teac 3340 that you're probably...

If I remember correctly, there were two versions of the K3 powering module for the ME80 head -- one took a battery and wouldn't work with phantom power, and the other was phantom-only with no switch...

My last SD cameras, and last tape-based camcorders, were a pair of JVC DV-5000s, 3-chip 1/2" cameras recording to DV tape (either mini or full size). Superficially very appealing (for 2002) --...

I can't help you with the Miller head, because I haven't used one.

But I did have a problem possibly related to your question #1 when trying to mount a Vinten Vision Blue head on the same model...

I see the LED lights flashing and strobing, especially when the camera moves. This is probably a consequence of the lights being dimmed down, and the PWM dimmers in the fixtures not being designed...

I use the Panasonic 0.7X converter on my HMC80 all the time with fine results. The only inconvenience is the actual weight and size of the adapter. I haven't been as pleased with the sharpness and...

Good lord, is NPR going out of business? Or did they just get a ginormous donation that allowed them to refurbish all their studios at the same time?

- Greg

Really wide range zoom lenses made turrets loaded with small primes largely obsolete for smaller 8mm and 16mm cameras, and also introduced a mechanical problem in that the heavy zoom put more strain...

I suspect more 2/3" cameras are owned by their users (broadcast organizations, freelance news cameramen, companies with in-house production facilities) and used heavily on a day to day basis, while...

I have covered a lot of equipment and carts with remnants purchased from a local carpet store for a dollar or two apiece. Just look for a synthetic low-pile indoor-outdoor carpet -- they are...

A few years ago, a friend of mine had just bought a then top of the line Blackberry for about $700. She was doing some messy work around the house and had the phone in the pocket of her overalls,...

I already have an HMC80 which gets a lot of use on the shoulder for run'n'gun type work. Probably more actual hours on it than my AF100 at this point. The AF is strong for interviews and for more...