Recent content by mcbob

File under "thanks a lot, CA" I reckon.... and I'm extra ranty at the moment, so proceed with caution More and more clients for 1-2-day gigs, who would have normally rightfully paid me as a 1099 contractor and allowed me as a business to freely deduct my mileage, meals, and other associated...

In the odd non-driving travel mode and catching up on casual content viewing. My Tube-o-You feed used to be filled with semi-daily updates from a wide gamut of Canadians and guys from Utah offering simple video tips and singing praises of freely-supplied Aputure products. Most of them seem to...

Same as this unit: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1259261-REG/intellytech_173000_fresnel_bi_color_high_output.html/?msclkid=1b42015d53671f38892460fc5e25505c Nice punchy focusable bi-color LED fresnel with good color rendition. Its only downside it its girth... doing more travel &...

Quick assessment eBay + Paypal fees have moved into stupid territory, and I don't really feel like giving them any more money. Would love to sell direct to chums here, but it doesn't get much traffic and I haven't sold anything here for quite a long while. What are currently some viable to...

Body only Excellent condition, latest firmware, includes battery, strap, charger, and 3rd party screen protector glass. Zero problems, I just don't do that much photography and have been fine with what the S3 yields. $2500 For photos, look up any Sony A7RIV body :D

Curious what other are using for OMB-style flight jobs, obviously where the lighting is checked baggage. Ideally capable of standard window-background setups and more, with at least two fixtures. I’ve used an Intellytech LC-120 1x3 2 light kit, but get a bit frustrated by how cumbersome they...

Just curious if any other DVX user folks like to spend their free time playing in the dirt and shoveling crap of the non-marketing created variety. For my wife and I, it started pretty tame with the yearly garden. Eventually we got a few laying hens. Then we started bringing in a couple dozen...

Ok, viral, whatever. The video is pretty durned cool. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/drone-bowling-alley.html

This thing just seems to be a mess of white noise when attached to the MI Shoe of different A7 cameras, and on the A7SIII and RIV, it's impossible to change the audio record level. Regardless, noise persists despite cycling through just about every combination of settings in lav tx and rx...

Many people in media (of all forms) are expertly trained liars, massaging the truth into a financially-beneficial narrative, or creating a false narrative to be “first.” Nothing new aside from the current popular format. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Deweytruman12.jpg

Some slopes are indeed slippery.... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/04/democrats-reintroduce-pro-act-labor-rights-bill-during-covid-pandemic.html From the article: Of interest to us.... it would make illegal any independent contractor arrangement where the worker provides services within “the...

Officially tired of mucking about with mini converters. Only one I knew about was the SmallHD 502, which seems kinda discontinued. Atomos Shinobi and Ninja failing to do this are big misses.

So I'm ramping up a couple new projects for various clients, and employing new music tracks. Why the fudge do so many new tracks have that annoying as everloving F rhythmic hamster-squishing quasi-vocal noise? I thought they reserved that for vapid fashion industry schmaltz... or is that what...

Yep, that's actually the one I have (thought it was Westcott, but was mistaken). I'm sure you could reporpoise other egg crating, would only realistically need to cover ~1/2 the umbrella on the side that needs the most flagging. Using flags or nets like huge barndoors seems to work fine, of...

I originally bought this off a DVXUser recommendation, and it served well for quite a few years. However, I'm selling my Sennheiser lav packs and will be buying mics compatible with my new system. Connector has been replaced (twice) Includes vampire clip and the nifty little OST mic case...