Recent content by Joe Lawry

Can anyone tell me why the AF100 will only output SMPTE colour bars when switch to 60Hz mode? In 50Hz mode it only gives you 100% bars. Which aren't the great to calibrate monitors with.. Obviously switching between 60 to 50Hz in HD land shouldn't have a different black level (i think) so...

Whatever you do, buy an EVF. It allows you to put the camera body on your shoulder like a broadcast camera, and balance all the weight out correctly. Im running the Zacuto EVF, Zacuto Universal Base Plate with 18" Element Technica rods (very strong) Vocas MB250 Mattebox, Shoot35 Follow Focus...

Attached are a couple of grabs from a low end TVC I shot last night on the AF102. Will put an edit up once the production company have completed it. The TVC is for a Tool Manufacturing company. AF102 B Press Norm2 Chroma Level: -4 Everything else 0 Zeiss ZF's & a Tokina 11-16 F mount...

interesting. my camera is going to panasonic on monday for a number of reasons. whoops. destroyed the voigtlander mount as well.. somehow my ZF is fine though! Tripod leg slipped.. camera hit the ground from about 1.5m up.

Ahh... On a job right now shooting mainly with my ZF's and a voigtlander adapter, however i've got a cheap EOS mount with me & my Tokina 11-16 EF mount, and at the time, I had the wide lens on the camera. So, I went to rewhite balance and black balance, and the screen all of a sudden went...

Did a search but found very little info on this lens. Finally jumped into the AF100 game on friday and am very happy with my purchase. Currently have Primes for Africa (Cinemodded ZF set) but im in need of a zoom that'll cover a decent range. I can totally deal with the Speed of this lens, and...

Had my 2nd full day of shooting with an AF100 today (actually AF102) really enjoying using the camera except for one weird fact. I use peaking/EVF detail whenever its available on a camera.. so was naturally using EVF Detail on the AF today.. However, i closed the LCD to conserve battery...

Another article. This time from our editor Simon Coldrick. http://crews.tv/blog/2010/10/22/af100-curveball/

EDIT: New Extended Cut available: 15826664 http://vimeo.com/15765280 So Heres what i can tell you. We shot at an ISO of 200. Shutter off (shutter wasnt engaging to 180 so we left it) We rolled internally to SDHC cards and then externally to a AG HPG20 recording AVC Intra 100. Gamma was...

Worked as a 1st ac on a very small and limited shoot with one of the 6 working prototypes (apparently) in the world right now. I cant say to much just yet, need to give it another day or two.. but. We recoded internally & externally via hdsdi with a set of Ultra Primes (sex). The prototype...

Righto, So i have a 16gb card thats about half full. I went to offload it today onto my Macbook running 10.5.6 and FCP 6.0.5 and P2CMS via FW through my original HVX. The Card loads up in finder, however sometimes it will show up with a normal file structure and others it will show up with...

So i was shooting a gig last night with my original HVX202en on my Steadicam Pilot.. shooting tape as that was requested.. 576 50i = yummy. Anyway.. i got the rig all setup and when i hit record i lost the OSD on my monitor on my Steadicam.. so the video out was having some issues.. It was...

Just managed to be in the right place at the right time when Rick Haywood the Broadcast manager of Panasonic NZ walked into my local dealer with a PREPRODUCTION HPX300. First thoughts, slightly smaller than a 500, but not by much, sits nicely on the shoulder, slightly back heavy but not by...

Anyone know of any good 8" lcd cases for my 80w? just picked it up second hand ex olympics and already have dirty director finger prints on it. I've seen the Porta Brace one.. but its a bit too expensive currently.. what with the whole recession and terrible exchange rates currently going on...

Just picked up a Panasonic SD9 avchd cam as a b/c camera to my EX1 and my HVX. Have been reading through the threads and learning about all the 'fun' issues everyone is having with avchd and final cut. Now one thing i just wanted to confirm was if anyone was having any issues with interlaced...