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Posted in Life, Reviews, Technology on Nov 14th, 2006
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!The last two weeks have been nothing short of crazy. A documentary we had started working on in 2003 finally draws to a close. Today we showed [...]
Posted in Life, Reviews, Technology on Oct 10th, 2006
About a week ago I received my replacement p910i. I have read rave reviews about it and was mildly excited what I finally held it in my hands. It weighs a bit nicer in the hands, with a more round feeling that the privious 810. the keyboard has undergone a very sucessful re-design, the buttons [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Reviews, Technology on Oct 10th, 2006
For my recent job in Germany, I knew that a better case for carrying the tripod was necessary. Normally, one would use a rigid plastic housing, but they weigh in at about 6kg, are difficult to transport - and are butt ugly. So I did some research, which lead to the Israeli company Kata, [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Technology on Sep 7th, 2006
I have been reading about their development for the past couple of years, but now it seems that the first system for fuel-cell camera batteries has hit the marked. DV magazine gives these a 3 1/2 out of 5 ratings:
Makes great sense for off the grid applications–network remotes and military use–where shipping issues and wrangling [...]
Posted in Editing on Sep 5th, 2006
Earlier this year we updated our editing equipment. Before we were using a 20″ iMac with 2gig of memory, and couple of LaCie firewire drives. Then, within 3 days, two of our 4 macs had a hardware failure. This, naturally, came amidst a pressing deadline. With a speedy re-installation of FCP on the old, trusty [...]
Posted in Editing, Reviews, Technology on Sep 1st, 2006
I been looking at a bigger monitor to complete our editing suite. So far we´ve been using a 9″ CRT from JVC, which doubles as location monitor. While it gives excellent colours, it is rather small, and does not have the full resolution.
So I did some research, and came up with the JVC TM-H150CG. For [...]