Recent content by Ian Schneider

Thanks in advance for your time! It is becoming harder and harder for me to find local retailers in my area that carry Panasonic miniDV tapes these days... in fact, as of yesterday, I have been unable to find a single panasonic tape in my city! What are the risks of using a sony miniDV tape for...

I'm shooting a scene tomorrow for an online art magazine promo spot thing, and wanted to uitilize the natural light in the one bedroom sized room that I'll be shooting this painter in. The room has two windows, which I believe would provide more than enough light. The cuts will be like a second...

Thanks in advance for taking the time to look at my post... I have been hired to shoot a graduation tomorrow evening. Sounds simple enough, but the truth is, I don't really have much experience shooting random live events in which I have little or no control over the environment, i.e the...

I'm looking to get an entry level lens set (the type that includes UV/Polarized/Flourescent...). I'll probably just get a cheap $30 set off of eBay. They advertise quite a bit of both Opteka and Merkury brands-I realize these are probably cheap, but would anyone suggest one over the other...

I recently purchased a 15' firewire cable to connect my 100a to my iBook. I noticed that as I scroll scenes, the monitor does not seem to keep up with the lcd. Can this problem be solved by switching from a 400 to 800 cable? Or maybe a shorter cable?

Hello. This is the first in what will be a steady line of semi-obvious questions (I recently bought a used dvx100a, sans manual). I assume that the camera has some type of stand alone playback feature, but I cant figure out how to initiate it. I tried switching it into vcr mode, then...