Category Archives: Gear
Hitler on Filmmaking
The only thing that is important is the last line. The rest of it is really funny though. Thanks to Ryan Grassley, a.k.a. Half Throttle, from whom I stole this…
The Digital Bolex: The 1st Affordable Digital Cinema Camera
I want one! To support the making of this digital cinema camera, please visit Digital Bolex’s Kickstarter page!
Writing, Directing, & Acting in my 1st short film of 2012: Quite the Juggling Act!!
I forgot to mention producing…..urgggh…it is all enjoyable, but it is work! And somebody has to do it! I found myself running around for the last 24 hours straight before my first short film shoot of the year, making sure everything was in place. And even then Murphy reared his ugly head! Antonio Nunes, son […]
T3i’s Digital Zoom = The Opposite of What You’d Think
WARNING: This article is for digital cinematographers/filmmakers (or aspiring ones). Anybody else will just be bored to death by the technical mumbo jumbo. NOTE: The Canon T3i, at this time is the only Canon DSLR with this feature. The 60D had something kind of like this but far inferior. So this one feature makes the […]
To X or not to X? (Final Cut Pro X that is…)
I’ve been using Final Cut Pro to edit video since 2006 when I bought my first Mac, a PowerMac G5 (the aluminum tower that looks practically identical to the current Mac Pro, except it had a Power PC dual-core processor!). So you can imagine that since Apple announced that Final Cut Pro was completely re-written […]
5D Mark 3 …. new features? Philip Bloom speaks
Among the many cool opportunities I had this week at NAB 2011 (btw, if you don’t know what NAB is, it is the largest convention of video professionals in the world), was a chance to meet the one and only Philip Bloom (basically we DSLR filmmakers worship the ground he walks on, see my previous […]
One-Man Multi-Cam Shoot! (ala 5D, 60D, + Tascam DR-100)
On Thursday, I was down in Las Vegas filming a Caribbean cooking show (the 12th cooking show I’ve filmed so far!). I was able to pull off what normally be should be done by at least three people: a 2-camera, dual-system shoot. (Dual-system is where audio is recorded to a separate system, not to the […]
Las Vegas People – A Short Film
Right before Dale Kamp (see dalekamp.com) left to Asia for his 4 month trip, I was down in Las Vegas on business and we met up late Saturday night. I had just driven down from Provo, Utah (a 6 hour drive) and met with a client, and I was exhausted. Dale was tired too, and we were […]
New DSLR Announcement
There’s a new video DSLR on the horizon, and it’s got my name on it…literally! No, actually my brother Miles just made this gnarly image in Photoshop for me. Creativity runs in the family. (Incidentally, Miles appears in my Havaianas short, at 0:56 and 2:25. He was living in Huntington Beach at the time, and he’s […]
A Shoutout and some technical mumbo jumbo
Recently friend and fellow filmmaker Dale Kamp came back from the dead. I figured now was a good time to give him a shoutout! He is a very talented videographer and filmmaker. He collaborated with me on Citius, below (yes, that silhouette in the thumbnail is of him and his 7D-read my blog entry on […]
