Video

Sony MHS-PM5 Bloggie

The Sony Bloggie is a fun and exciting HD video and 5MP still camera with loads of features and a menu system that makes sharing your content with the world incredibly easy. It offers a number of features and functions that lend themselves to the needs of those looking to make quick video clips and upload them to the Web with great facility.

Camcorder Shoots 3D Video for 3D TVs

Amidst a new wave of releases of 3D technologies, Panasonic has just announced the HDC-SDT750, the world's first AVCHD 3D camcorder to include a 3D-conversion lens. The camcorder allows you to you capture 3D video that will play back on any 3D TV set. 

 

The GoPro HD Hero

The GoPro HD Hero is a video camera that you can take with you on all of your adventures. You can mount this camera just about anywhere you might want it to go—surfboards, bikes, cars, skateboards, motorcycles, ATVs.

 

Adaptimax Lens Adapters for Using Nikon and Canon Optics on Video Camcorders

There's no shortage of lens adapters out on the market, designed to adapt still-camera lenses for use on video camcorders and film cameras, and some are better than others. Adaptimax is one of the better ones. Engineered and manufactured of anodized aluminum alloy with chrome-plated brass lens mounts, Adaptimax lens adapters are designed for precise optical alignment of Nikon and Canon lenses on select video camcorders.

 

VholdR Contour HD 1080p

POV, or helmet cameras, are meant to capture all the action from your perspective while being durable and simple to use. The VholdR Contour HD 1080p is the smallest, lightest, and most intuitive HD helmet camera.

 

New Toys, Old Strategies

Like most photographers, I have a love-hate relationship with the tools I use. I am as captivated as the next photographer by the promise of the newest cameras, yet I am loath to give up old strategies that have served me so well. As a photographer, I depend on my cameras to make the pictures I want to make. As a professional, I depend on that same gear to earn my living.

 

Marshall Budget HDMI Monitors Help You See Clearly

Marshall, one of the most well-known and respected names in field monitors, has released an afforable line of budget monitors priced to be within the reach of just about any videographer or video hobbyist. The consumer/prosumer videographer now has a more affordable monitoring solution from Marshall, with its M-LCD7-HDMI line of consumer camera-top field monitors.

 

Sanyo VPC-CS1

It’s usually the case that the more rich a camera is with features, the larger and bulkier it will be. That’s certainly not the case with the Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1, which can also transmit your footage to a computer, wirelessly, with wireless Eye-Fi SD cards.

Porta Brace Backpacks: Lug Safe and Snug

Getting from Point A to Point B. For most people, that’s not much of a challenge. But if you have to transport several expensive, fragile cameras and other heavy gear and you want it all to arrive at point B safe and sound, you’re going to want some sturdy, well-padded equipment cases. Fortunately, Porta Brace has you covered, with its line of padded Backpack Camera Cases.

 

Litepanels LEDs Combine Continuous Light and Flash

LED lights produce very little heat and they’re powerful, lightweight and thrifty when it comes to power consumption. While a continuous light source and a flash unit are typically two separate devices, the Litepanels MicroPro Hybrid, specifically designed for DV and HDSLR cameras, is a portable LED light panel with built-in flash capability. 

 

 

Sony's SRW Family of VTRs: Quality Option for Broadcasters

Consumers today have a full plate of options when it comes to consuming multimedia content. You can view a blockbuster movie at the local multiplex, on a large-screen TV, streaming on a computer or even on an iPod or cell phone. And the number of options for consuming content is only going to increase.

 

Flip Video SlideHD

The Flip video camera, although released a few years ago, has since proven to be THE shoot-and-share camera for the masses, with its simple design and no-frills user experience. That tradition has carried through all of its models and now with its latest iteration, the Flip Video SlideHD.

New Sony Handycam Lets You Change Lenses

Sony just announced its release of  the first Handycam camcorder to accept interchangeable lenses. It also features a quad capsule spatial array stereo microphone that captures spectacular audio. I’m talking about the NEX-VG10. Not only does it offer the flexibility of an interchangeable lens system, it's one of the sleekest-looking prosumer camcorders you've ever seen in a compact form factor.

 

Shoot Video in a Flash with the VIXIA HF M32

Flash memory camcorders are the way to go these days. Flash memory is fast, rugged, portable and affordable. Canon just announced the VIXIA HF M32 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder. This little HD beauty features 64GB of internal flash memory and an SD card slot lets you expand on that. 

 

My First Video Camera

Long before I was a pro audio specialist, I was a hopeless video nerd. After my sophomore year of high school, the band I was in broke up when our drummer moved away to attend college out of state. Making music just wasn't the same without that specific drummer's rhythms, so I turned my creative ambitions to video production, and became obsessed with buying the RCA Pro Edit VHS camcorder.