Monthly Archive: December 2008

Cinevate Proteus rails

When you attach a 35mm adapter to the front of your camera you ‘re adding a lot more weight than the threads on the lens were ever designed to hold. To help support this extra weight and allow you to attach other devices you use a set of support rails....

WD TV Media Player Review

As a mac user the one thing I’ve found really frustrating is that there’s no easy way to watch the HD videos I’ve made using my mac on my HD TV. The most common solution to this problem is to burn blue-ray disks and watch them on a blue-ray player...

Exporting for the web

I’m often asked what settings I use when I’m exporting my video for the web. Until recently I used different settings for YouTube than Exposure Room and Vimeo, but now that YouTube are also delivering HD content I use the same settings for all three of the sites. The following...

The next step – making contact

I feel I’m at the stage with my videography where I need to get involved in project where I have the ability to work with and hopefully learn from a team of like minded people who want to make a short film. Trying to make this step however is proving...

Bags & Cases

I’ve added a couple of pages to the gear section covering the Peli hard case and Kata backpack that I use. Peli 1560 hard case Kata HB-207 backpack

Kata HB-207 backpack review

Although a Peli case protects my camera whilst it’s being transported there are times when I need to be able to take the camera with me on foot and a hard case just isn’t practical, that’s when I use the HB-207 backpack from Kata. The HB stands for Hiker Backpack....