Monday, January 24, 2011


Trusty Sony PD100A Goes to the Fair!!
Yep. at the Gravenstein Apple Fair I used this DV-CAM format camera to record Twang Ditty's 45 minute set of music!! With help from my audio expert, Lee Lusted, we took a wireless feed off the stage mixing console into a mixer for two channel stereo, then fed the camera via the external audio mini-jack connector. Sounded good and the band was thrilled with the result. I shot in the 16x9 format, which unfortunately is not as good as the HD version, but as long as the image is kept to 320ppi, fine for web use, it works ok. Would have used my Flip HD Mino camera, but as is well known, it has no audio in.
Notice the tripod and earphones: necessities for pro video standards.

Friday, January 07, 2011

Enjoying New iPhone4

Here's an example of what the HD video looks like on an iPhone4. If it had a tripod connection I could have used my Bogen to steady the image. Taken at a gift shop in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, just after eating at the Hayes Valley Grill on Christmas Eve.