I was shooting some video with my Canon 7D when what to my wondering eyes should appear? No it wasn’t a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. On the upper right hand side of the screen I spotted a red dot. The dreaded hot pixel !! Not surprising, that this happens occasionally, considering that there are 18 million pixels in the 7D. I of course panicked, as I will be on the road for the next 20 days and, have some very important...

Our good friend Rob Parker couldn’t have had better timing on writing us about this… Last week we spent some time with Philip Bloom in Palm Springs. It was great. We got to relax by the pool and play with our new Sony TX5, GoPro, and Phil’s Camarush Eggtimer.   When we got back home and sat down to edit it all together, we noticed something odd: And sure enough we got the dreaded error message “The document...

When Jon and I first got together one of the things we always found ourselves discussing was travel. We both have very different backgrounds as far as travel goes… I was lucky enough to travel around the world since my father lived overseas and Jon hadn’t travelled much at all. Over the last year, we’ve been lucky enough to finally start travelling for work and we love it. Usually, when we travel together packing is never...

So, I had posted a video I found, a while back, about using an iPod to bypass the AGC ( Automatic Gain Control) on the 7D. The problem is, that for people using the Rode Videomic, this doesn’t work. Thanks to Dave Dugdale for sending this to me and working this problem out. To read more on this go...

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Audio out of these cameras is not good. You really have to record audio separately to get a good sound. However, the main problem with the audio recording on these cameras is the AGC. So take a look at this tutorial for a cheap DIY...