I’ve teamed up with Alastair Brown over at Glidetrack.com to bring you a fantastic chance to win some cool video gear. Up for grabs is a 0.5m Glidetrack Shooter SD, an LCDVF DSLR viewfinder and a 3:2 LCDVF.

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning one of these items is follow me on twitter and then post a link to this page. You can use the ‘Tweet’ button above to do that if preferred but please remember, if you don’t follow me you won’t be included in the draw.

Update: The draw is now complete and the winners are:

LCDVF 16:9 - @mrjonnyjones

LCDVF 3:2 - @JDog23

Glidetrack Shooter - @torbenscharling

Thanks to everyone who got involved and helped to spread the word.

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Update: This draw is now over and the lucky winner was @RoscoeJones

Thanks to everyone who got involved and thanks again to Bruce Sharpe at Singular Software for supplying the prize.

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Only a few days ago I announced my Glidetrack prize give-away which is going to be happening on the 1st December and now Bruce Sharpe over at Singular Software has generously donated another very nice prize in the form of a license for  the excellent PluralEyes extension.

Designed with time-conscious video professionals in mind, Singular Software’s PluralEyes provides valuable workflow automation features for editing multi-camera, multi-take, and dual-system audio projects quickly and efficiently. PluralEyes analyzes audio information and synchronizes corresponding video clips automatically, saving video editors hours in post-production. PluralEyes eliminates the need for timecode, clappers, or any special production preparation. For more information check out my full review.

In the meantime, why not download a PluralEyes trial version and see for yourself how well it works.

Video’s and user reports from Panasonic’s AF-100 camera are starting to appear all over the web now and I’m becoming more and more intrigued by this new camera.

The Af-100 uses a micro 4/3′s sensorwhich is smaller than those used in the full frame Canon 5D markII and slightly smaller the 7D’s APS-C sensor so it will be interesting to see how the AF-100 performs with traditional 35mm lenses on adapters. Certainly using something like the Canon EOS lenses will result in a crop factor of around 1.8 so using wide lenses becomes problematic with a 24mm performing more like a 50mm etc.

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