Monthly Archive: December 2008

Peli 1550 & 1560 hard case reviews

Anytime my EX1 is being transported or is just tucked away waiting for the next job it lives in a Peli 1560 hard case. These cases are waterproof, provide lots of protection against shock damage and generally just make you feel reassured that your precious camera is snuggled safe inside....

YouTube goes HD

YouTube has finally started allowing the display of HD video and I have to say it’s the nicest looking web video I’ve seen yet. I did some experimenting and I had to upload a 16×9 (1280×720) video for it to give the ‘Show in HD’ option. Uploading a 1280×544 video...

Winter Garden

I’ve been shooting random clips in and around our garden over the last week and thought that I’d throw this together tonight rather than wasting them. There’s a mixture of formats and lenses used here but it was all done using the Brevis adapter and the cropping technique described in...

Beta Blades

The shoot35 guys have recently sent out 5 beta units of their new SGBlade 35mm adapter and the first clips are starting to appear and looking very nice indeed. So far two beta testers are posting results. Both seem to be using Canon XH-A1’s so no results with the EX1...