Recent content by walnutcrunch

Now that we've seen what cameras are on the horizon it looks like we're going to go ahead and purchase the FS7. We were evaluating the DVX200 against it (hoping to save money) but really the FS7 was much better for us. We're coming from an old launch AF100 and a stable of Nikon d800's. We have...

We've got a new dedo kit with three lights, lensing etc. We used it for long throw focussed lighting but what we don't have is a big softbox like a 4x4 or something. My thought is that we should extend the dedo kit with some kind of softbox setup because we can keep using the single power...

Anyone found anything that works well? After spending yesterday on top of a mountain and in a blizzard I think we might need one. I used a Kata cover from our 500 and stuck the lens of the camera through the viewfinder opening, it worked okay. Very little snow on the camera considering how...

Our Canon entry level CAC lens has a focus issue when zoomed in or extended. Canon basically told us "that's what you get for a lens that price" Great good to know. I'm heading to the Arctic with the 500 and chances of telephoto are great. It would be a shame to have a lens mess it up. I can...

I just came back from a field shoot with my laptop, hardrive setup and I came across an error I haven't been able to solve. I used the pcmia reader in the laptop to unload each of the cards once. The next day I filled the cards again and tried to do the same thing but when I put the card in...

Shot last week on our 500. Be sure to watch in HD. Say what you want about pixel shifting and resolution and everything else, the fact is this camera continues to create images that look outstanding straight out of the camera. On our big screens the images are breathtaking...

Way over my head here, but the usual path to stabilizing on a boat for us is to make sure we're holding on or braced tight so we don't get wet, then using the knees to counter the waves. Not the best. Zoom gets a bit crazy. Is there any way to stabilize for a boat, in remote areas, cramped...

This is a quick comp reel thrown together from a trip to Gwaii Haanas National Park and Haida Heritage Site. Fairly demanding conditions. http://vimeo.com/2507639

It's seasons greetings for our youtube channel. It's in pretty nice HD on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djtorbc2kVA Is the link supposed to be purple? Good lord. I'm not worrying about it. I spent all day wrestling with youtube, I'm not going to sweat a purple link. Hah the link...

So I had a previous thread about some distortions in the picture coming out of our 500. The centre of the frame would be in focus, and the frame would lose focus as you moved out to the edges. I always believed that there was a focal plane, kind of like a rectangular box that moved back and...

This was shot without the extender on the Canon 17x7.6 CAC. It's like there is a focus spotlight in the center and it blurs out in a circular pattern from there. It's the first time I've noticed it but it seems to be everywhere now that I'm looking. Anyone else noticed this? Is it barrel...

I've been asked a question that I have no idea how to respond to. We regularly send our camera out on research trips, but sometimes the boats are too small or our transportation is too expensive. The researchers have about 2k to purchase an HD camera that they will always take with them...

Our camera spends a lot of time on the water and in marine areas. We've got it wrapped in one of those KATA soft cases, which is great for those random splashes, but is there any kind of regular maintenance we should be doing on the camera? Also on that note, saltwater is a pain in the butt on...

We might have made a mistake but we bought a circular polarizer for our 500. It is supposed to be fine for HD video cameras but nevertheless we get a serious orange cast to the picture that we have trouble fighting with white balance. I've only ever used polarizers with stills cameras and I've...

I was messing around the other day and I was getting a huge amount of CA. I went to the lens setting menu and there was no indication of anything. Every CAC setting just had the dashes "---". I could go in and see the profile for my lens, and about 3 other lenses, but I couldn't actually see...