Forum: SPC - Single Person Crew
January 24th, 2014, 05:34 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 13,234
Re: Steadicam?
Be aware it will take some dedication to learn how to adjust it and use. It's not as easy as it looks, but when you get it right it's the most beautiful thing.
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
November 30th, 2012, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,461
Re: Panasonic GH1 for Speech Presentations
I would say no. I do not think the Gh1 has an external mic input and in any ambient area like a banquet hall or assembly area, getting the mic as close to the speaker as possible is imperative to...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
November 11th, 2012, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,468
Panasonic Warranty Improvement Petition
I'd like to propose Admin start an online petition to ask Panasonic to create a business class support that is NOT outsourced to a non-responsive third party and will abide by a defined SLA (service...
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Forum: Micro / POV Camera Systems
October 14th, 2012, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 195
Views: 38,293
Re: Sneak Peek at Sony POV (hiking)
I just got back hiking Big Round Top trail @ Gettysburg. Shot a little and will try to post later on once I get time to get organized. Immediate impressions:
1) Walk only with steadyshot on, really...
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Forum: Micro / POV Camera Systems
September 22nd, 2012, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 195
Views: 38,293
Re: Sneak Peek at Sony POV
I just got mine from Sony Store today. Quick look and I'm thinking this is a keeper.No thorough enough test to judge video quality, but here's some non-video observations:
+ Charge via micro USB...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
October 8th, 2011, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,720
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
June 14th, 2011, 04:24 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,999
Re: Getting fed up with crashes
Best thing you can do (for free) is to go to the PC manufacturer's website and update your PC's drivers. While my recommendation is to update all of them that are out of date, focus specifically on...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
March 10th, 2011, 10:27 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 5,759
Re: suggestion for 100mm vintage prime
I bought Canon FD 85 f1/8, along with a Canon FD 135 f2.5 and Nikon F 105 f/2.5 on ebay. While the Nikon is a "competent" lens and does as expected, the Canon is clearly a sharper and overall better...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
March 10th, 2011, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,455
Re: Micro 4/3 adapter reviews
For Nikon F mount: Voightlander
For Canon FD: Novoflex.
I bought a Canon FD from JNFinance on ebay, and it basically worked and was cheap enough. If budget conscious, sure buy it... However, it...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
January 4th, 2011, 05:51 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,259
Flash card woes
Occasionally these cards will corrupt the file allocation table. Sometimes it's due to the user removing them while a write is going on, or similar. Also is incompatibilities between the SD card...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
January 4th, 2011, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,691
Merlin
I've contacted Steadicam people directly and they've gottem me a lot closer than I could get by myself on my JR.
Also, here's user submitted settings from their site:
Welcome to Tiffen - Steadicam...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
November 24th, 2010, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,526
New laptop
I concur you should consider a replacement laptop. The Turion is a bit of a lightweight CPU for graphics and with Black Friday coming up, should be some good deals. I suggest any of the Core i5 and...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
November 24th, 2010, 06:31 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 7,433
A word of caution on licensing
While Sony may be a little more liberal than most, please take care to note this is not typical in my experience as a LAN Admin. Most upgrades are sold as EXTENSIONS to the existing full license,...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
November 24th, 2010, 05:33 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,804
Shuttle Express not working in Vegas 10
I did as suggested, no luck. So I reset the preferences back to defaults and re-imported (from Vegas 10 folder, in my case) a second time, and it's working now. Hopefully everyone who reads this will...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
November 21st, 2010, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,995
GH1 soft output-suggestions
Not sure if this reply is too late. Yes the GH1 output is a little softer and grainer than the D40 in your photos. I've not found the kit lens to be all that sharp. But some perspective is needed.
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Forum: Sony HVR-A1 and HDR-HC Series
March 30th, 2010, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,041
a1p overexposure
I've shot similar stuff with an A1u and it looks like you'd expect.
I think you better dig out the manual and hit the master reset. Some setting is wrong.
If that's not it and you have to repair...
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Forum: Sony HVR-A1 and HDR-HC Series
March 30th, 2010, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 14,591
converter vs proxy
You may want to instead consider a proxy, such as Gearshift (if it still exists) on vasst.com. This way you edit with the lightweight proxy, but render at full resolution.
Cineform also should be...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
March 28th, 2010, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,751
GH-1 + 200mm
I have the GH1 and the Canon FD 200 f2.8. As the other poster mentioned, 2x crop factor is like shooting a 400mm lens.
My thinking is you'll need a tripod, and that may be a not practical for a...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
March 14th, 2010, 02:27 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,289
SATA III and USB 3.0, Oh, My!
May want to not worry about including all the bleeding edge stuff in your decisions right now. This stuff may take up to a 12-18 mos to get sorted out (read: debugged), and you may not want to suffer...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
March 11th, 2010, 06:22 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,042
anamorphic
Big thumbs up! Like a fisheye without the distortion.
Very nice...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
January 1st, 2010, 02:10 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,639
Freeze up
You may want to get systernals process explorer or Thesycon dpc latency check and look at DPC's (deferred procedure calls). If this value is too high you would get issues that you described....
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
December 21st, 2009, 11:07 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 8,890
Corrupt files
The only adverse experience I had was occasionally I got memory card error when powering on. This occured 3 times in 2200 photos shot over two weeks in cold weather. Happened one each of the 3...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
December 21st, 2009, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 7,970
I read the friggin manual...
From release notes on Body firmware 1.21
Shutter speed slower than 1/30 sec. (up to 1/2 sec.) has now become available in the
Creative Motion Picture mode.
Only when the [EXPOSURE MODE] in the...
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Forum: Panasonic LUMIX S / G / GF / GH / GX Series
December 14th, 2009, 12:31 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 7,970
Does notwork for me..
Am I missing a step here?
Settings:
motion jpg, HD, (Also tried with AVCHD FHD mode as well.)
Exposure mode "S" (shutter).
ISO auto, 400, 800, 1600...
Turn the dial to Movie and roll scroll...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 14th, 2009, 12:12 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,479
Win 7 vs XP performance
I have a Core I7 920 and recently upgraded to Win7 x64 from XP64. I see about the same frame rates... not bothered to measure them, just I can't tell any difference. CAVEAT: I AM running Vegas 8.1. I...
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