Reviews

JuicedLink DT454 XLR Adapter/Preamp

  Last week I picked up a JuicedLink DT454 as I was really missing a proper audio monitoring solution for my Canon 5dm2. And overall, I’ve been very happy with it so far! But being that I’m starting to do a few more shoots with my 5dm2, I really wanted to put it up against my Sony EX3 and see what the difference in audio is going to be? And since I never saw anything comparing the...

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Choosing the right lens

It seems to me that when most videographers choose what type of SLR glass they’re going to put in front of the camera/35mm adapter, they typically spend more time on trying to achieve that shallow depth of field (faster lens) and forget that there are other factors that come into play when placing a still camera lens on a video camera. (color, focus, contrast, breathing, manual control,...

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CaseCAD

  The problem with travelling around the world with your gear is always safety. Is it going to get lost, stollen, will it break or get damaged? And at least for the last point, I don’t worry to much about that anymore since I received my foam inserts from   Despite the look of there website, they make an excellent product. I took me a little bit to decide whether or not I even wanted...

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A Lesson in Customer Service

Its not very often that I write a company to talk about there level of service. And in fact, I think I might have only done it once. But when a business goes completely out of there way to help you with no immediate monetary gain for itself, it completely impresses me. One such company like this is SmallHD. SmallHD makes a portable field monitor called the DP1 that I use in just about every...

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