Author: Paul Joy

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...

Small Things

So, at lunchtime today I spent a couple of hours in our kitchen giving my newly acquired Nikkor macro lens a try out and this video is the result. To get the white background I simply taped a piece of A4 photo paper between our kitchen table and the wall...

Kites

Filmed at Hunstanton beach on the north Norfolk coast on the 15th November 2008. Once again I only took my camera and glidetrack which I’m finding is a great way of filming. I find myself using the glidetrack as more of a mobile filming platform than anything, I can sit...

At the beach

Just got back from a little trip with the camera to Hunstanton beach on the North Norfolk coast. Hunstanton is very popular with wind and kite surfers and their sails / kites made fantastic subjects to film. I only shot around 10 minutes of footage but I’ll turn that into...