Recent content by jebouchard

I have a distributor/broadcaster offering to show two of my short films, and distribute them worldwide. Since I know nothing about industry standards in distribution (other than it's painful and unpleasant), I'd like to check with people who have signed distribution deals to find out whether...

Someone asked me to videotape a half-hour press conference. Broadcast quality (3-chip HDV OK) but no PA system so (depending on the layout of the room) I'll either mount a shotgun mic on the camera (reporting style) or have a separate sound person. Out of 30 min. of tape, the person who's...

I noticed the other day that when zoomed in on an object about 3,000 feet away the image becomes blurry while using one or both of the internal ND filters, and I can't improve the focus (which is already set at infinity). If I remove the filters, the image becomes perfectly sharp. This is...