Author: Paul Joy

Swiss Harley Days

Here’s the video I’ve produced for Harley-Davidson’s Swiss Harley Days event. The video was shot over four days in and around the city of Lugano in Switzerland in July 2010. The video was shot using the Sony EX1 and the Canon 5D with 24mm & 50mm lenses. There’s also a...

Archiving – what to do with all that footage?

Coming from a tape based Canon XH-A1 I found the digital workflow of the Sony EX1 to be a wonder with it’s instant clip reviews, no drop-outs, fast ingest and high quality. One problem with shooting on something like SxS, compact flash or SD cards though is that you have...

The gear I use

I’ve just created a new page under the ‘Gear & Reviews’ section of the blog which is dedicated to listing all of the kit I use regularly. It’s all well and good reviewing kit and reporting how great, or not so great it is but I feel that it’s probably...

Cadet150

On 6th July 2010 HRH The Prince of Wales took the salute at a Royal Review in the Mall, London to celebrate 150 years of the Cadet Forces in the UK. Cadets, volunteers and their massed bands from across the UK marched from Horse Guards Parade down The Mall to...

Lightpanels 1×1 Review

The UK isn’t well known for it’s fabulous weather and scorching summers but we’ve been fairly lucky over the last couple of weeks and had some absolutely gorgeous weather. As nice as this heat is when working outside or chilling at the beach though it can also cause a lot...

Canon EF 24-105mm F4 IS USM Lens Review

In the time that I ‘ve been shooting video on the Canon 5D mkII and 7D I ‘ve amassed a nice collection of Canon L series lenses. I have a 24mm 1.4, a 35mm 1.4, a 50mm 1.2 and the 70-200 2.8 IS. Until recently if I wanted to take...