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I just got a preview DVD of the short from my friend who directed and edited it. It was shot on a HPX500 with a P+S Pro35 adapter and three Zeiss HS lenses 25mm, 50mm and 85mm all T1.3 (that is F1.2) It was my first time shooting with a 35mm adapter of any kind, but I have to say the Pro35 on...

I guess more and more people are having wide gamut displays nowadays with full AdobeRGB support - there are hardly any good, large monitors that are sRGB only, and there will be even less in the future, so real color management is becoming more and more important. I got myself a new monitor...

I was recently talking to another cameraman who had been using the HPX500 really differently than me - he was mostly shooting controlled, single shots for commercials (yet low budget) using 1080P and cine gamma, I had been using the HPX500 mainly for eng stuff, shooting DVCPRO50 50i with news...

I'll be using a HPX500 with a P+S Pro35 next weekend for a short, and I will only have one day to accomodate myself with the Pro35 (rental is expensive, so...) I have been shooting a lot of eng with the HPX500 lately, so I know the camera pretty well, although I don't have much experience with...

Before you say it - I'm going to make my own tests in the next few days, I have a digital light meter and a studio location where I can do the testing - just because I have never done this before I am asking for other results/experiences to compare with. The background is I'm going to be...

I was shooting a short movie event in a parking garage that night (they planned on walking through the city watching shorts on the walls of different buildings, but it was raining, so everything was moved to a parking garage). As you can imagine, it was pretty dark, and I did not want to get...

Another problem I've had lately (apart from the cold-weather focus freak-out I described in another thread) with all 5 of our HVX 200E at work is that the main zoom switch started to make creaking noises. It ruins the atmo-sound of every shot, because it is so close to the microphone (internal...

I have experienced a weird focussing problem recently with three different HVX 200E camcorders. While being on manual focus, I suddenly felt a buzzing vibration inside the camera and then the focus went crazy. In the worst case it sets itself to macro, or starts pumping in and out of macro -...

I've been watching the first three episodes of "Crash" last night and was very distracted by what seemed to be a fake shallow depth-of-field attempt in like every second shot. I was asking myself why they would do this? The original DOF looked something like it was shot on 2/3", so it wasn't too...

The problem is the following: A colleague has edited a 30min. docu feature in a 4:3 sequence because it is going to be on air that way. The source material is 16:9 anamorphotic from MiniDV tape and has been captured correctly (capture files are 16:9 anamorphotic when viewed with quicktime...

I recently shot with the HPX500 for the first time (with a Fujinon 7.6x17 BRM lens) and I am very pleased with the handling. Especially the lens is great to use with its various zoom speed settings, its very fluid zooming and the focussing help (zoom in and out quickly with just one button). I...

I have just seen "Darwin's Nightmare" by Hubert Sauper. It's a shocking documentary about the reality in some African countries, mostly Tanzania, where European planes bring in weapons and take home fish filet - while the people there are starving, happily eating the disgusting rests of...

I just assembled our new HPX500 and the Fujinon XA17X7.6BRM lens and I was wondering if the CAC preset "XA17X7.6BERM" is ok for this one (notice we don't have the "E" version with 2x extender). On the Fujinon Broadcast site they don't even list the BRM lens without extender (I didn't buy the...

I'm going to shoot a commercial for sd tv and digital cinema projection in two weeks and I'm not sure what format to shoot in. Is 1080 a lot better than 720 on the HVX? From what I know the HVX is perfect for 720 and doesn't profit much from 1080. I'm not sure how many P2 cards I will be having...

I've been shooting a friends wedding with a HVX200, I was using the F5 scene file (changed color temperature to +2 and detail to -2). I was using squeeze mode, camera mode film cam, SD on MiniDV, 25i (I didn't use 25p because on my tests it just didn't look right on a tv screen, it was...

I've been using the HVX a couple of times now and I think its auto focus is, compared to the DVX, really slow and sometimes even innacurate - is this a fact, or is our HVX broken maybe and we should get it repaired? I know auto focus is not the most professional feature, but lacking a real...

I'll be shooting in the mountains soon (snowboarding) with a small mini dv cam (no dvx, a Sony PC100E). It's home video, so it doesn't have to be perfect, but of course I want to make the best of it (I have a reputation to lose ;) ) I have a screw-on B+W ND 1/8 and a screw-on B+W circular...

I never used the standard F5 scene file (25p cine-look) except for a very quick test - but now I'm going to shoot a small (no-budget) documentary with a friend who'd like it to have a film look. I thought I'd just use the F5 setting. Would that be ok? Or can I achieve much better looks when I...

I'm not sure if I got the right terms ("infinitely variable" is what my dictionary told me) but let me explain what I mean: I record the presentation for tv piece in the field on a weekly basis (the presenter is in a different club/bar each week). I do the lighting with halogen par lamps and...