It’s been a crazy couple of months in RadRaven’s land… I have now approximately 99.5% of “Road to Red” in the can and a 2h30m rough-cut, growing on 3… Two major things should be mentioned about this last unit: 1. I didn’t resist! I used my 5D to shoot several pieces for my film, which [...]

It’s been an interesting week… I was about to hop on a plane back from Portugal when I saw Stu’s new blog post in my RSS feed. I can tell you I was pretty late when I got to the airport… The one 1D Mark IV could be the camera so many of us have [...]

Being in the middle of post production of a film which seems to be adding up to a 3 hour rough-cut, doesn’t leave me much time to enjoy my recently acquired 5D MKII. Now on a short break in Portugal, I’m catching up on lost time… Not long ago I wrote an article on the [...]

It’s been a good 3 years since I’ve attended the Dv Expo… It’s a show I have a certain affection for. It was the first exhibition of this kind I attended when I moved to the US and a year later I had my first short film screened at it’s own festival; the DV Film [...]

I’ve been patiently waiting to make a decision. The 7D turmoil of rumored specs had an important role in holding me back, until they were officially announced… It was both an exciting and anguishing day for me. I sat through a 2 day shower of information at the Collision Conference trying to make sense of [...]

6:45 on a Sunday morning and Image Mechanics used the same trick to get me out of bed… Of course I didn’t expect to win any raffle prizes, but with my luck I knew my number would be drawn if I wasn’t there… haven’t quite figured out how to beat this system, yet… It was [...]

Saturday 6:30am and the alarm goes off… snooze… it goes off again… Sh!$ I have to get up… the Collision Conference starts today and there’s a raffle drawing at 8:30… I get there on time, but of course, I don’t win anything… You have to agree, though, Image Mechanics found a pretty smart way to make [...]