Just watched the final episode of the current series of Dr Who. Excellent stuff, shot with a Sony F35 and it looks very good indeed. On BBC HD that was followed by Dr Who Confidential, a behind the scenes look at Dr Who. A large part of this followed a trip to the USA to [...]
Sony recently released version 1.63 of their XDCAM HD firmware. It adds many improvements and a number of small bug fixes as well as making some of the new WiFi options available. My favorite new feature is the ability to display your clip numbers in the viewfinder. Why it’s taken so long to implement this [...]
I’m in Vegas for NAB… but with no luggage, so no clothes or camera kit. Grrrrrr Anyway, Sony have released details of the new PMW-320 shoulder mount camera which is basically a 1/2″ version of the PMW-350. This is a camera that a lot of people have been waiting for. As far as I know [...]
Until a couple of years ago CMOS sensors were definitely the underdog, they tended to be very noisy due to electrical noise generated the on chip by the readout circuits and A/D converters. In addition they lacked sensitivity due to the electronics on the face of the chip leaving less room for the light sensitive [...]
Just spotted this tucked away on the Sony website. I’m downloading it now to take a look but it appears to be a plugin that allows you to edit native XDCAM HD MXF’s and proxy files in FCP, as well as native EX files. This could be a really nice tool. Once I’ve tried it [...]
I’m looking in to the feasibility of running a XDCAM Master Class in Oklahoma City between May 28th and May 31st. I will be in the area anyway and though it would make an interesting venue for a workshop. I have a hotel in mind with a Rodeo Nightclub next door (they ride bulls in [...]
Sony have just released the firmware required to use the new 32Gb SxS-1 cards, the Memory Stick and SD Card adapters. This firmware also adds the ability to have much longer clip titles (46 Characters!) on the PMW-350 and EX1R. You can do the update yourself, you don’t have to send the camera back to [...]
Well I have just returned from Iceland where I held a couple of 3D stereoscopic master classes and a workshop on video for the internet. They went well and we all had fun despite almost a foot of snow fall the morning of the classes. On the last day of my trip I decided to [...]
Here’s a quick edit of some of the Aurora footage I managed to grab with the PMW-350 on the 6th of Feb in Karasjok in Northern Norway.
This is a work in progress. Some of this may also be of interest to other camera users as I hope to give a basic description of what all the various settings do. First off let me say that there is no “right way” or “wrong way” to set up a scene file. What works [...]