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Hi All, I'm sharing with you The $0 Budget Software Blog, an extensive guide to open-source and free software spanning from preproduction to postproduction. There's something for everyone. It's my adventure in leaving the Adobe and Avid subscription models. Cheers!

Hi All, I have a personal dilemma, I'm moving to Europe but my HMC150 is NTSC only (23.98 vs 25p). I know that nobody will really buy a used one today with the large sensor craze. It's in mint condition, even though I've shot documentary & corporate interviews with it. It's always lived in it's...

Hello All, I'm wondering if anyone has a generic form they use when renting their gear out to other parties? I'm renting my HMC150 out to the nonprofit TV station I intern at for two weeks. It'll be covered under their insurance, but I just want to make an invoice to bill them for it and...

Hello All, I just wanted to let you know that a documentary I D.P.ed, Default: The Student Loan Documentary, has been airing nationally on PBS since November and just this week started airing on LinkTV. The majority of it has been shot on the Panasonic HMC150, with some of it (the earlier...

Just received my GH1! Before hacking it, I was wondering if still photography is possible with a hacked camera. Or is it just a video camera now?

I've been noticing GH1s for pretty cheap recently. Are new GH1s for $400-450 a good deal? It wouldn't be my main camera, I use my HMC150 w/ Letus adapter and Nikon primes for my regular shooting. I think I would mostly use it for location scouting and travel photos. The biggest thing is the...

I have just fried my 2nd card directly from Kingston themselves. I recently posted that after using a Kingston 32GB Class 6 card in my Panasonic HMC150 Firmware Version 1.21, that I got the dreaded "Check Card" error message meaning the card is fried. I sent it back to Kingston, and received my...

Here's the link to my short shot on the HMC150, I'm still going to remix the sound. Let me know what you think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu7tSoz_oFs

Call me crazy, but I'm buying a Letus adapter off someone for $500. With all the rolling shutter issues with Hdslrs, I'm thinking it's a better value hooked up to my HMC150 rather than buying a GH2 or t2i. Any thoughts?

So after filming with my wonderful HMC150 for the past couple of years now, I've encountered my first card failure: Kingston 32 GB SDHC Class 6 card bought at Fry's Norcal. My camera's firmware is 1.21. It was the 1st half of my shoot and cards that I've used after that one failed (Delkin 16...

My question is has anybody been intercutting between footage from both an HMC150 and either h-DSLR for 2 camera shoots? Imagine using HMC150 for wide shots or for interviews and using the hybrid DSLR for cutaways, close-ups & B-Roll. I'm wondering if the GH-1 codec would be a close match to...

I'm bummed that my Blackmagic Intensity Pro card doesn't support 24p playback to my broadcast monitor. (I downconvert the playback to SD). What cards are people using out there for monitoring, etc.? I'm looking at the Kona LHi, Blackmagic HD Extreme, and the Matrox MXO2 LE when it comes out...

Documentary film is looking for a cinematographer in New York to shoot interviews and b-roll from September 26th to October 3rd. Availability on either of the days or all of the days is welcome. We are shooting a documentary about higher education and the predatory practices of the student loan...

Default: The Student Loan Documentary is a feature-length film chronicling the stories of borrowers from different backgrounds affected by the student lending industry and their struggles to change the system. In 2005 private student loans were exempted from most consumer protections. No matter...

I'm shooting a lecture next week and remember hearing about issues with clip length or size. The lecture is schedule to be about an hour long. Should I stop and restart every 10 min. or so when recording? I'm used to shooting narrative shorts so the longest take I've recorded so far has been...