Author: Paul Joy

Sony Professional 35mm launch event (with PMW-F3 footage)

I had the pleasure of attending the Sony Professional 35mm launch event in London and what an exciting morning it was! The event started with a presentation about Sony’s top end HDCAM SR offerings in the form of the “Cinealta” F35 and SRW-9000PL cameras. We then moved on with an...

More Premiere Pro CS5 trials

After watching Chris Fenwicks presentation about the benefits of Premiere Pro over Final Cut I felt inspired to give adobe’s NLE another look and run a few more tests for myself. After spending a few hours trying various things I ended up with a lot of questions and made some...

What’s in a name?

I’m not sure how the rest of you feel about this but one thing that I always struggle with is that old question “what is it you do?”. Until recently I’ve been calling myself a videographer but according to Chris Fenwick that description needs to dissapear and be replaced by...

Sony PMW-F3 layout review

I’ve been looking closely at the control layout of the recently announced Sony PMW-F3 camera and thought I’d share a few initial thoughts and review the layout of the camera compared to the Sony PMW-EX1 which I use regularly. Left Side: Cache record wasn’t mentioned in the original specs on...

Sony announces the PMW-F3K & PMW-F3L

Sony have officially announced their answer to the shallow depth of field requirements of videographers and digital film makers in the form of the PMW-F3K & PMW-F3L. The K version is supplied with three Sony S35 lenses in the form of a 35mm, a 50mm and an 85mm. Sony have...

Does hard work always work!

I keep hearing this old adage that the way to do well in what you set out to achieve is to work hard. Now I don’t disagree with that totally, of course hard work is generally a requirement to do well at things but I find it a bit frustrating...