In December of 2007, I finally made the switch from my beloved SONY TRV950′s to a pair of SONY HC7 camcorders. Having shot with them intermittently since that time, I’ve come to appreciate, even love, shooting with them.

Gear isn’t nearly as important as we are led to believe Read that again -  Gear isn’t nearly as important as we are led to believe So how does this fit into the Solo VJ paradigm? Although having quality video acquisition tools is important, I think the future for solo video journalists will lie more [...]

Up until December of 2007, I had been a vocal opponent of making the switch to HD – especially for those solo video journalists who were dedicating their craft specifically for the web. The idea of shooting HD with the end product being a 480×270 pixel end product just didn’t seem practical in my opinion. [...]

Jim Feely over at Studiodaily.com has written an excellent piece for all those shooters and those thinking to make the move to video. He feels that too many can get wrapped up over whether to shoot HD or if standard definition is good enough to make a living with. I couldn’t agree more with his [...]

I was recently asked by someone about my position on what constitutes professional equipment. I’m going to blather a bit on my particular POV on this topic because it annoys me that the spin doctoring ad wizards love to manipulate the human psyche to consume and that is a serious issue as far as I’m [...]