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Students discussed this endlessly when I was teaching. I know my view has always been some people have the artistic gene, and a great technical background. Others only have the technical knowledge. In practice, with both still and moving images, I know my place. I take thousands of...

adding an app as primary ID, or a list of random codes by email? seems the forum software designers haven't quite got a handle on typical forum users aged over 25? I moderate two forums and the behind the scenes stuff is a continual nightmare process, but this might be a one off thing. Having to...

You've summed it up perfectly. Take a DSLR and add the gizmos to make it fully functional, and you end up with Frankenstein approved big systems. If you go to capable camcorders style videos, then they by definition become big and unwieldy. Want a long lens? There is a big weight and size issue...

Really? I do get mistaken for Pete Waterman as I now have glasses.

In theatre, it happens all the time. Some arrive word perfect, and with 100% understanding. Others dont appear to have even opened the script. The majority just read their own lines and sort of know them, but only read the scenes they are in. The real test is of the Director. Good ones just cope...

On a forum I moderate, there are new spam tools - all new members get their details matched to a database, and it's amazing how many matches the software catches - lists of banned members, dodgy servers and posts that other forums have had issues with. It's a xenforo site, but I suspect the...

Its a little off topic but i watch Peter Coulson videos on youtube. He's a stills guy but has some views on black and white vs colour now we are electronic. Ive nicked a few of his setups for video and they worked nicely.

Gets very orange - although power in our collection (housed in 3 large barns and 2 40' containers is limited. What you can do though is see if there is an alternate lamp that uses the same socket style - as long as the centre filament height is the same, this works pretty well. Or you can make...

I am part of an official museum collection in the UK, and we have a huge collection of British, European and American lighting gear, donated by people who cannot stand the idea of scrapping them, but dont actually wan5 to use them. So imagine a range of theatre and TV lighting by the greats and...

I was a bit mystified, so I dug back and I'm wrong. The Sony that's in the office cannot be the XM1 - my assumption was that that was what is under the foam on the camera in the store. Very clearly, the Sony appears to be an OEM Audio Technica - a million apologies.

M/S is such a useful technique - but I've noticed the audio for video folk have loved it for years - especially the people who do wildlife - squeezing 2 mics into Zeppelin style windshields, yet the sound only people seem to very rarely even try it - in fact, the kinds of recorders film style...

I've always been surprised by the sound recordists who have always found M/S so useful keeping it to themselves. It's not an everyday thing for me, but when I do work in churches with choirs and small musical ensembles, it's always a get out of trouble technique when you have no ability to mics...

I was quite impressed by that to be honest - perfectly usable and the artefacts would vanish if even a little ambient sound was mixed back in. Just a few years back this would have been impossible.

Really liked the write up and files - worked really well for me, here in Lowestoft!

The only concern is handing a very directional mic to the person speaking - all the shotguns of the Sennheiser 416 length need accurate aiming. Omnis do collect everything, but that's why reporter mics tend to be omni and have a long handle. they don't need aiming, just getting close in to their...

They're cheaper than that brand new here? inc postage?

The Sony (and the identical Panasonic) are OEM brand products - a very ordinary mic, branded with Sony or Panasonic and supplied for a long tike with very expensive cameras. There is a very similar JVC which I suspect is exactly the same. What it is - is a very simple electret condenser with a...

https://youtu.be/F6dMZUxcJcc https://youtu.be/J7S4ykZSauo https://youtu.be/PPvS39mS9xU Have a look at these - some answers, but some bits still make me wonder.

I'm still trying to find the physics to explain how the AKG CK-8 and CK-9 capsules work. They are NOT the usual interference tubes we see on Audio Technoca, Sennheisser and loads of others, but a slot from tip to capsule. Imagine a plumbing pipe, with a slot cut down the length with a grinder -...

I don't quite see what such a video would do. I have lots of shotguns in my stock and the 416 always makes me smile because the reason we use it is because it works so well and is predictable. Few people ever really discover it's hardly narrower than a hyper-cardioid. Mine go to the ridiculously...