Monthly Archives: January 2012

Northern Lights Tours for 2013

2013 Northern Lights Expeditions to Norway, staying in mountain cabins. Including food, ice fishing, snow scooter use and photo/video tuition. You must book your own flights to Tromso or Alta. Arrive 1st Feb – Depart 7th Feb 2013 £1175 per … Continue reading

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Real Time Aurora video shot with PMW-F3

You have to watch this. It is REAL TIME footage of the Northern Lights. Not the usual time-lapse that I have shot lots of in the past, but real time, as it happened footage. The motion you see in the … Continue reading

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Real Time Northern Lights Footage.

Im in my hotel room in Norway editing the real time f3 footage from the Jan 24th Solar Storm. You won’t believe the footage when you see it. I’m stoked with what I have in the can. Almost 2 hours … Continue reading

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Incredible Northern Lights Video

Here is a quick taste of whats to come. This is a quick compilation of just a few clips from January 24th. The best stuff, including the real time footage is still to come, I just need to process it … Continue reading

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PMW-F3 Performing Extremely Well at -26c!

I’m up, 200 miles North of the Arctic Circle shooting the Northern Lights with a mixture of DSLR’s and one of my PMW-F3′s. The F3′s performance has really taken me by surprise as it’s possible to capture even a very … Continue reading

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Norway and the Northern Lights.

I’m in the process of putting together my equipment for my annual trip up to Northern Norway to shoot the Northern Lights. This year it looks like it will be particularly cold with -28c to -32c forecast at the weekend. … Continue reading

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PMW-F3 Firmware Version 1.3 Available Now.

The latest version of the firmware for the PMW F3 is now available to download from the Sony Canada web site: http://support.sonybiz.ca/esupport/init.do The key feature of this update is the ability to now output clean 4:2:2 S-Log from the “A” HDSDi … Continue reading

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Alan Roberts C300 assessment available online.

Alan Roberts has carried out an assessment of the Canon C300. According to Alan (and I have no reason to disagree) the camera performs particularly well.  You can read the report here. Can’t wait to get hold of mine, but I … Continue reading

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Off to Korea and Hong Kong for 3D workshops.

I’m off to Korea and CheJu island to run some 3D workshops. Back in a week!

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PMW-F3 and PMW-350 picture profiles and scene files added.

I’ve just added some more seen files and picture profiles to my new camera setup section of the forum: http://www.xdcam-user.com/forum3/viewforum.php?f=40

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