Recent content by David N.

Does anyone know of a hotshoe mount that's sold by itself? I managed to find a Manfrotto ball mount for my monitor that fits in my HVX hotshoe, but I'd like to be able to slide it out of the HVX hotshoe and into a custom hotshoe mount on my homemade steadicam. So I guess I'm looking for just a...

I got a tricky problem, and probably a rare one. Has anyone ever been able to copy a video made in FCP to a P2 card? I need to use the camera as an HD player to go to a projector. We have no other reasonably affordable way to input the HD footage than using the camera and the component...

My Magiqcam Series II head came apart while shooting in a river, and I lost a few things. I lost the sleeve and the nut that goes into the connection between the swiveled mount on the camera pod unit to the top of the 90 degree peg piece that pins into the spring arm, as shown below: The...

Went up this last weekend to a GP motorcycle racetrack to film a coworker racing, and I decided to rent out the 60GB P2 Store and see how it fared. Overall, the workflow was pretty painless, offloaded P2 in the field no problem, and all the data seems to be there back in the studio. However, I...

I dropped my hvx200 about 12 inches onto concrete. The battery popped out, and the plastic teeth that hold it in broke out. At first I thought this was all that happened (I've dropped DVXs before and they've been pretty rugged), but not until I noticed something today. Normally you zoom in...