Category: Shooting

When Canon announced its $500 PowerShot TX-1 recently, I was skeptical. It’s a tiny camera, about the size of my old S200 still camera, that can take 7.1 megapixel still images and also capture 720p HD footage. We’ve seen similar attempts (like the Sanyo Xacti) that haven’t been impressive in real life. Well, Gizmodo is ...

When Steve Jobs declared 2005 the “year of high-definition video,” there wasn’t much available to shoot consumer HD, and the only HDV camera at the time (the Sony HDR-FX1) cost $4,000. Now it’s 2007, and the number of HDV camcorders has gotten larger while the prices have started to come down. EventDV.net has published an ...

Although I devote a section of the iMovie VQS to lighting, I really don’t know much more than the basics of lighting a scene. It’s one of those areas of shooting where you can fall into a rabbit hole and get lost (and really enjoy being lost). It’s also an area that is usually immediately ...

Canon has just introduced a new 1080i HDV camcorder, the HV20, which improves upon the highly-praised HV10. The HV20 is a horizontal model, versus the vertical HV10, which some people aren’t keen on. From the press release: Among the new features within the Canon HV20 HD Camcorder is an Advanced Accessory Shoe capable of accommodating ...

Peachpit and InformIT have posted an excerpt of the book (iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6: Visual QuickStart Guide): Don’t Move! How to Add Motion to Your Movies. This is from Chapter 3, “The Camera in Motion.”

More camcorders from CES, this time from Hitachi (that tip to Agen at Amazon): Hybrids aren’t just for the auto industry anymore. At CES, Hitachi unveiled four new camcorders for 2007: two standard DVD models and two hybrid models that record video to either DVD or a hard drive (30 GB on the D7HS500A and ...

I figure I may as well blog before I get sucked into the insanity of Macworld on Tuesday. (I’m also preparing for my presentations, which is what has me tied to my computer.) The folks at Engadget and Gizmodo are working overtime to report from CES. Now, we learn that Sony is going to release ...

With CES just about to get into full gear, Panasonic has announced new camcorder lineups—specifically a bunch of 3-CCD models (i.e., camcorders that record to three image sensors, not just one). My pal Ags writes up the details at Amazon’s tech blog.