Recently I had a friendly from Discovery.com reach out to me regarding my thoughts on a solid prosumer camera in the $3k-$5k range. I gave him a run down of what I like and use as well as some other options. Below is the email I sent back to him:

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This does not have much to do with production but it has everything to do with sound. What is amazing is the stark contrast between regular helicopter rotors and the Eurocopter’s Blue Edge rotors. In brief, engineers have discovered how to silence helicopter blades. I’ll let the video and the article do the talking.

Now and then IMAGIKA is asked to be part of a project which uses green screens or chroma keying. NO, we didn’t work on any of the projects in the video below. The tech for this has been around since before Dave Letterman was a weather guy. There is definitely an art and a method in shooting with green screens but the results are fantastic. Most of the movie 300 was shot with green screens. Further more, you’d be shocked as to how much of what you see on TV and in films are shot using green screens. I ran across the video below in my feeds and thought I’d share. Enjoy!

Yes, at first I thought the iPad looked like complete crap. However, reason is now dictating what I think about the iPad. When the first iPhone was released in 2007, most of us came up with all the reasons why it was a horrible purchase but yet we still purchased it. So too will be our love affair with the iPad. However, this time around things will be different. We already have the app store and are getting a new iBook store (I’m sick of all the i names). Out of the box, the iPad should run most if not all of the apps we all have for the iPhone/iPod Touch. If we take a step further, we’ll find ourselves wondering what the iPad will become rather than what it is. By doing so, any rational thinking human MUST come to the conclusion that what the iPad will become far out weighs what it is.

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