Recent content by daveswan

I have a Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s 32 GB card that I used to record some rather important performances in our XF 100 at 50mbps. Unfortunately when I came to pull the footage into my computer tha card came up blank, without even a recognised file system. I tried Windows checkdisk but it saud the...

For anyone with more than a passing interest in astronomy this will come as sad news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20657939

Ok then, who's mad enough to come over here to the Olympics?:) I hope you're bringing your wet-weather gear, as the medium range forcast is for wall-to-wall rain:( Sorry an' all but we've had the wettest May and June on record, July looks like following it (Some places got their whole months...

The school bursar has just given me the go-ahead to buy an XF100. Before I spend a lot of the school's cash what "gotchas" should I be aware of for shooting long-take events where I need to roll for 1-11/2 hours at a time. I know the cam will split this into 4 gig chunks on the card, but I...

This post may ramble a bit, sorry. Well I'm trying to get a new camcorder from my school's powers-that-be with a notional £3000 max budget. I'm totally fed-up with tape, having had drop-outs on fairly important footage, so have persuaded them to go tapeless. ATM we have a Sony A1E HDV / DV...

Current situation: MC3.0 on an old Centrino dual Dell lappie, that used to have a Nvida card, but is now ATI (Ouch). Target situation: MC5.0 on a i7 950 build with Nvidia Fx580 graphics. With dongle. If I have a dongled system then by definition, I can only run one license at a time (And am...

I shot some footage on my 550D and after downloading some files showed up as 0 bytes, not with any pattern that I could see. I tried several times to re-transfer the clips but the same thing happened. They show up and play fine on the camera, its just the transferred files. I tried importing...

Just seen the news on the Beeb online, it's gne to Russia. Bit of a relief really after all the fuss in SA After watching the Panorama prog on FIFA corruption (Aleged) I'm glad it's NOT coming here. Dave

I'm planning a guerrilla shoot under sodium street lights, just am actor, director (Me) and cameraman, who all live locally. Having been watching Barry Green's lighting DVD I've taken on board what he says about using (Or rather not using) "available light" but the available light is all I...

I know that things have been changing recently, but with the currant state of play which does the least damage to 1080 25p footage? I think I read that Vimeo tries to put eveything into 24p but may have got that wrong. I don't wnat to know which is more "hip", "cool" or has the most "street...

Well I'm getting a 550D and was looking into primes to add to my collection. Now there's a list of Leica and Contax compatibility on pebbleplace, but was wondering if anyone knew of eg Nikon lenses that might foul the mirror of the 550D, and especially the 5D / 5DII since I may want to use them...

On no money! I have an amateur supernatural horror film in pre, the climax of which is the inevitable vampire trapped until until dawn turns him to dust. The scene takes place in a local park, and because we all have day jobs I don't want to involve cast and crew in a night to dawn shoot. So. ...

I can't really believe I'm typing this but it looks as though some pestilential toe-rag walked off with my HVX while I had it at work (Filming GCSE drama practicals) :cry: I am still hoping I'm wrong and it's still lurking somewhere I haven't looked (And I've looked most everywhere) Now, at...

I've got a Jupiter 9 85 f/2 and it has horrendous coma wide open and down to about f/8, mind you, that might not be a problem for DSLR video. It also has a lot of iris blades and a long focus throw. Dave

These thoughts come from the Perya thread but I'm posting them here. 1st Preamble: Nothing in here should be construed as an attack on digital. 2nd Preamble: I am not a film chemist, though I do have a chemistry degree, and read extensively on the topic (A while back now). In fact a film...