How do I choose a camera?

Dangerous ground...especially if you don't know enough to know what you should be looking for. This blog posting is for those who want to stretch their knowledge and move beyond simple P&S (point and shoot) folks who just use their cameras to take family photos or video or LAMIGABEC! (Look at me - I've got …

Voices that inspire me…

...to get back to blogging. Did a (fairly basic) lighting workshop yesterday for Voices of the Earth, a Bay area non-profit. They're a bit out of the ordinary...a small group of passionate folks who have taught themselves an awful lot about video production and who want to move on to what they call "the next …

Press Grip…

New toys are always fun...even more so when someone you know invented them AND you get to be one of the first to play with them. So what is this new toy? It is the Press Grip - the brainchild of KGO cameraman Dean Smith. He's a regular guy...and in and out of the many …

Videojournalist Etiquette: Microphones Part One

Put yourself in the position of one of your subjects. There's a cameraman coming at you - both hands out - holding a microphone. He's aiming at your chest. Time to panic, especially if you're female. What IS this guy up to? Face it - we're in a strange business. We ask personal questions, get …