Calm down – Canon has not made a professional video camera
Web buzz about the Canon 5D and 7D cameras seems to be spilling over into the real world. We take a look at the fuss…
Peter Parnham
The one that started it all
Calm down. Canon has not made an HD camera that will take over from the big boys like Red, Sony, Panavision or Arri - the corporate camera makers fighting over the old 35mm film space.
Nor are Canon about to take over the television camera space largely owned – in New Zealand at any rate – by Sony and Panasonic.
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New Zealand’s Next Top Model PDW-700 case study
Making New Zealand’s Next Top Model was a no brainer, and the camera choice was a no brainer too…
Sponsored by Sony
John McDonald is Head of Sport and Production at TV3, a MediaWorks New Zealand free-to-air television channel.
But the energetic McDonald does not stay behind his Auckland desk as he executive produces New Zealand’s Next Top Model, a show that airs on TV3 from March 2009.
“Making New Zealand’s Next Top Model was a no brainer,” he says. “The American show has always rated strongly for us; it is such a proven brand.”
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F23 camera a first for New Zealand
New cameras put to the test on Skyrunners, the first original movie for the new U.S. Disney XD cable channel…
Panavision
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Shortland Street future-proofed with new cameras
A big bang change over to HD could mean big trouble so television icon prepares one step at a time…
F900
The big bang approach to upgrading from SD to HD has risks when you have a finely tuned production schedule like the venerable Shortland St.
The South Pacific Pictures serial medical drama shoots five days a week for 10 ¾ hours per day – five episodes a week.
There is no room for disrupted schedules or unreliable equipment on a set that moves this fast.
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James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever | Magazine.
ProVideo Coalition.com: Pro Cameras, Video Editing, Motion Graphics.
One guy’s opinion about the 5d. Press release
P+S TECHNIK | Professional Cine Equipment Manufacture | SKATER Camera Dolly Product Family | SKATER Scope Snorkel Lens System.
Cult yet to produce the ratings – Entertainment – NZ Herald News.
NZ on Air has revealed that viewer numbers for the new thriller series The Cult – on which the taxpayer-funded agency forked out nearly 10 per cent of its television budget – are not as high as it hoped for.
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How Arri Designed Their Digital Future
via WELCOME | High Definition magazine.
It was back in 2004 that we first heard about the digital camera journey that Arri were embarking on. They were showing a short film of violinist Nicola Benedetti playing outdoors and indoors in what looked like a period estate house, it had been shot with their experimental digital camera. The people enthusing about Arri’s ‘experiments’ were mainly film guys who weren’t interested in HD cameras derived from ENG roots but wanted their optical viewfinders and film lenses, they wanted the status quo as long as it had Arri on the side of it.
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Hans La Cour Andersen
22 February 2009. Dear friends, sorry to send you a mass email like this but I have a piece of bad news which unfortunately I have to share with you. A few weeks ago I went to a doctor because I noticed a lump…
So began the journey for 54 year old Hans, his friends, colleagues and family – a journey that would end at the wrong destination.
Martin Tasker, the yachting correspondent for TVNZ has worked a lot with Hans since his arrival in New Zealand from Denmark in the early 1990’s – an adventure in itself, one during which Hans met his Chilean wife Leila, and led to his book Den Rejsende (The traveller).
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