Recent content by Bowen

All these years, but never filmed fireworks! Big show next week for commercial client and I will have HPX170's in two positions without operators. If your experience can help point me in the right direction it sure would be appreciated. There's a lot of widely varying info out there!

This enquiry for a friend who is a novice and shoots only in automatic, but bought an XLH1S (because it was so cheap!) and is finding it difficult to get good concert shots in low light, even using the gain. I thought maybe a different lens would help. I know v. little about Canon. Any...

I have a job coming up part of which is to make a time-lapse film of a 5 week interior construction project. If someone has done a long time-lapse shoot like this before, maybe with the 170, then I am concerned about a couple of aspects. One being the camera being connected to power for 5...

It seems to me that Panasonic has totally stopped supporting P2 cards, else why does P2CMS only function on an ancient 32bit XP operating system?? My old XP laptop with the useful P2 card reader slot is slow-as. Not wanting to muck-around with dual-boot on my work machine, I have P2CMS...

I'm doing a doco with maybe 20 interviews and would like some options to flash names up to identify each person speaking. Adobe have a bunch of standards, but maybe there's a plug-in package with some greater choice out there? I don't yet have the After Effects skills to create my own and need...

Is there a 2x extender available for the 170? This is my last effort to find something, before compromising with the Century 1.6X Thanks for any input here.

Can't delete this post but just found my answer: Firewire doesn't talk 25Pn. So I changed the framerate and now all's good. I guess that having synchronised the TC I can now change back to 25Pn. Looking forward to experimenting now that it's up and running. Previous post: Having followed...

Hi all, I have an opportunity for a once only Cinema screening of my concert movie and I have no idea of how to get a good image onto a movie screen. (I have only made DVD's until now). The film was shot 720Pn at 25fps. The theatre has a Barco projector with various inputs including...

So I get to show my fiddle concert movie at the local cinema. Once off screening. Usually I just export for DVD but am naturally looking for a better result this time. Is there an export format (using CS4 Premiere) to maintain uncompressed image (720Pn) for projection. Maybe back to the...

I am rolling 70 names in 45 seconds for End Credits using the Titling feature. Problem is they are rather blurred! I have exported to test DVD reproduction but same visual nasty. (Using TimesNewRoman and have experimented with many others - same problem.) Have never had problems before...

Frustrated? exasperated? stupefied? shaking your head? muttering expletives??? Why not copy and paste your example of "Panish" here. The objective of this thread is to get enough examples of poorly written "Panasonic English" for someone at that illustrious company (whose salaries we pay)...

Having just spilled for another 170 it's obvious I like the camera. But it pisses me off that Panasonic management are so ignorant of their employees lack of written English that they continue to write critical instructions that have to be guessed at. All with disclaimers that they will take no...

Various threads seem to point to a 82mm UV HD filter. How does it attach? Can I still use the standard lens hood or must I buy a MatteBox. Any pointers? Thanks for reading.

Any pointers on how to use the waveform monitor would be much appreciated. A search of all forums and the net has surprisingly turned up v. little that I can apply to this camera. Thanks - Bowen

Buying tomorrow, and after searching all threads it seems pretty much down to these two. The four channels on the Edirol would be great but can be lived without. The Fostex FR-2LE looks way better made, though some reports of audible (non-recording) hiss. I want to use the Recorder...