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What's Cool about the EPIC Camera - Click To Read Article
The EPIC Camera is a hugely evolutionary and perhaps revolutionary step in the digital cinema camera world. RED took the best things about their original camera - put the specs on steroids - and the body on a diet - and kept it at a very reasonable price. For a base price of around $30K without a lens you can be up and shooting (although pretty stripped down). The camera is beautifully small, expandable and elegant.

Who Said Nothing in Life is FREE? - Click To Read Article
BLARE Media, a Fresno web design and video solutions company, has launched a new free business contact management website with a twist called Contact Squid. Like most contact management systems, the site allows users to add resource and vendor contact information, organize them into useful categories, and rate them. Contact Squid’s other features, however, effectively transform it into a social-driven database of professional service providers with serious marketing potential.

Amateur Cinema 2012 - Video Production - Click To Read Article
We are living during an unprecedented time of options in the world of amateur and professional filmmaking. Prices, availability, options, and capabilities have been increasing at an unprecedented rate. There are many reasons for this but I think two main contributors are RED Digital Cinema and the emergence of DSLR's. There are many detractors of both but in terms of making amazing technological abilities available to the masses they have been instrumental. To literally be able to spend $1000 on a Canon, Nikon or Panasonic DSLR video production camera and have a viable movie making machine is something that was impossible even 3 years ago.

HMI Lighting - Click To Read Article
Lighting is everything! Whether it's natural sunlight, subdued ambience, perfect practicals or complex Hollywood style lighting, the image owes all of its power to light. An expensive but required type of light in most higher-end video production projects is HMI lighting. For pure lumen power, HMI's are hard to beat. They can be temperamental, flickery and a pain to move but when you need them there is no substitute.

Chinese Video Production Equipment - Click To Read Article
There are several difficult choices to be made when buying gear in 2012. It's expensive, it's confusing and it's ever-changing.

DSLR Video Production Gear - Click To Read Article
The majority of dSLR shooters require a light gear load as we usually do not have the luxury of a full crew to help carry our stuff. We also might move to several locations in a single day, and more equipment means slower set ups and breakdowns which can make a tight video production schedule even tighter. There are, however, a few things that I recommend even one-man-band shooters to carry around due to their light weight, small size and tremendous utility.

Cheap or Free dSLR Stabilization and Steadicam Tricks - Click To Read Article
dSLR cameras allow just about anybody with a couple grand to capture high-definition footage with big-budget looks such as depth-of-field, motion blur and deep, rich colors. One thing which dSLR shooters still struggle with is getting steady handheld or dolly tracking shots without investing in a pro stabilization system or building a cumbersome PVC track on which to roll their rig. Due to budget and time constraints, most of us just want to shoot and go.





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