Author: Paul Joy

European Bike Week 2009 – Austria

The third event that I’ve filmed for Harley Davidson this year is the European Bike Week which takes place in the small village of Faak in Austria. Although this event is likely to be that last this year, it’s by no means the smallest, in fact it is by far...

Steadicam Pilot – broken bearing

I opened my Steadicam case today to find some rather strange looking metal pieces laying loose in the bag. I’d not noticed any issues before but these parts had obviously come from somewhere so I decided to give everything a good check over. It didn’t take me long to notice...

Snow Leopard, 2.2 Gamma at last!

After my initial wingeing about snow leopard I’m starting to notice some of the good stuff about the new OS. The first of those things is that Mac OS now sets it’s gamma to 2.2 by default, and not only that but in the display calibration pages it actually lists...

Replacing the ATI X1900XT in a Mac Pro 1.1

As far as computers go my current mac has to be one of the longest lasting machines I’ve owned. Purchased nearly three years ago it’s still going strong and although I’ve been tempted to replace it a few times the performance gain by doing so just doesn’t seem worth the...

EX1 mic holder replacements

Read any of the popular Sony EX1 and EX3 forums and you’re bound to notice that a lot of people break the mic holders on their EX cameras. I’m not entirely sure if the weak holders on these cameras are a feature to stop the camera getting damaged or a...

New gear

I’ve been doing some shopping recently and have a few more gadgets lined up to review. Before going into the full reviews though I thought it might be useful to outline my initial thoughts on these new tools. SmallHD DP1 I’ve been meaning to pick up a larger monitor for...