Beaten by a phone again. Recording loud music.

Besides a random Hi8 model, my first Sony camcorder was a VX2100, I loved that thing.

Looked up the order date, 6/10/2007 - oh, mama.
 
Yeah, I still own my HVX-VZ1 that I bought in 2005. Actually, now that I think about it, that must have been my first Sony camera after the old M3A was sold in 1995. That cheap little HDV camera looked far better than my $60K Ikegami Betacam. I still used the Betacam for paying clients, but I used the Z1 for all my own projects because it just looked better.
 
NorBro said:
where did the time go...
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
 
Peterrrrrr...don't tell me you're on LSD again planning a road trip across the country, getting the band together for one last hurrah
 
Doug Jensen said:
Ah, but when I went to Betacam I switched to Hitachi for a few years and then Ikegami for the rest. I didn't own anything with a Sony name on it from 1995 to 2006 when HD came around. If Ikegami had come out with an HD 2/3" camcorder I might never have gone back to Sony.
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For years, Ike's produced the superior image(even though their camera designs/ergonomics were questionable). And that's why the first two generations of VariCam's looked so damn good. A couple of engineers from Ike left and went to Panasonic.
 
Run&Gun said:
For years, Ike's produced the superior image(even though their camera designs/ergonomics were questionable). And that's why the first two generations of VariCam's looked so damn good. A couple of engineers from Ike left and went to Panasonic.
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Ikegami always had far superior viewfinders too, and then Panasonic also picked up that with the new blood.
 
NorBro said:
Peterrrrrr...don't tell me you're on LSD again planning a road trip across the country, getting the band together for one last hurrah
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I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. He could throw that speedball by you. Make you look like a fool, boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar. I was walking in, he was walking out. We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all he kept talking about was...
 
Doug Jensen said:
Local news photographers. In general, most of them are just awful with not much desire to up their game or make any improvements whatsoever. What few skills they have were learned from watching co-workers who also have terrible skills and don't know what they are doing either. The blind leading the blind. Most of them might as well be mopping floors in a hospital.

When I'm teaching workshops, I can always pick out anyone who cut their teeth in local news, even if they have since moved on to other things. It leaves a stink that is hard to shake.
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Ouch. As someone who cut their teeth in local news, this hurt. (assume you are talking "local tv news") But, in general, sadly, I would agree with you.
And maybe because I'm "old" now (57) it does feel like it has gotten several notches worse with camera "talent". Certainly, when newsrooms starting making reporters shoot their own stand-up's, it was an omen for things to come. (I have a real hard time watching local news now - even in bigger markets.)

In the small market I started in, many of the guys I worked with moved to bigger & better markets and were "good", some really good at what they did. But many never transitioned to other gigs in our industry. And as far as I know, none are doing 60 minutes network stuff now.

For me personally, I wouldn't trade that experience for any other - certainly not being a lowly assistant or lens swapper on a film crew. Being able to anticipate, in real-time, in many different scenarios and situations, and then quickly get and "tell the story" visually, and under very strict, tight deadlines, made me learn "craft". A lot lot more then I learned with my 4 year college degree. And while I didn't learn great lighting there, I did learn the very building blocks of shooting and editing, things that still serve me well many years later doing corporate work.
 
Peter C. said:
I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. He could throw that speedball by you. Make you look like a fool, boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar. I was walking in, he was walking out. We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all he kept talking about was...
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Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
 
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