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HD Pocket Video

Professional Techniques with Consumer Gear

by D. Eric Franks

Did you know that your $229 Flip MinoHD is better than that fancy $30,000 RED Digital Cinema camera everyone's been talking about? And would you believe that your new $179 Canon PowerShot point-n-shoot still camera can get shots that Sony's latest PMV-350 ($25,000) can't? Even Samsung's Instant HD mobile phone - which you can nab for $250 (+ a two year contract) will blow away Panasonic's HPX2700 VariCam in many situations, and you'll save roughly $39,700 in the process. How can I make such audacious and patently absurd claims? There's only one reason:

A camera in your pocket is always better
than one that is sitting back at the studio.

Unfortunately, pocket video cameras have a really bad reputation. Sure, professionals badmouth the diminutive digital shooters and roll their eyes, but more damage has been done to this class of camera by the unwashed masses on YouTube posting (literally) a million poorly lit, shaky handheld videos a day. It doesn't have to be this way! In the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, inexpensive pocket video cameras and point-n-shoot still cameras can produce excellent HD video and HD Pocket Video: Professional Techniques with Consumer Gear can turn anyone into someone who knows what they are doing.

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dshaneg
HD Pocket Video
Nov 20 2009 16:04:42
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This booklet is a great resource, and worth many times the price. Heck, it's worth four bucks just for the entertaining read alone, but it is a rich store of useful and accessible instruction on taking great video with your super-cheap HD pocket camera.

This thing should actually come packaged with every pocket cam that is sold--the quality increase to the flood of video on the interwebs would be staggering.

It's also a great companion to Eric's other book, Videopia. If you don't have either, just go ahead and pick them both up. You'll enjoy the writing and you'll learn a ton. And if you apply even a smidgen of the knowledge you pick up, you'll be surprised at how much your videos improve.

Great job, Eric! I think I might read through those 30 pages again at lunch today...
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D. Eric Franks
Re:HD Pocket Video
Nov 20 2009 17:30:28
Thanks, Editor in Chief. I am so going to blurb you in the marketing!
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Harold
Re:HD Pocket Video
Dec 27 2009 23:39:11
I just bought the HD Pocket Video PDF. I bought my wife a Kodak Z1485IS this past February and I have to say that it does a pretty good job. I have several videos I made with it, just to capture the moment, and I have to say that nobody would complain about the quality. I posted several of them on Vimeo just to share with family and friends and for anyone searching the net looking for examples of what the cameras can do. My Nikon D90 puts out some very nice video but not in the pocket camera range and,as Eric points out, the Kodak is almost always with us, not the D90.
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D. Eric Franks
Re:HD Pocket Video
Dec 28 2009 03:42:52
Thanks Harold. I hope there are a couple of quick tips in there you and your wife can use.

I just got back from X-Mas and no less than 3 pocket cams were out and shooting, including a Flip, my Casio and my friend's wife's Sony, which she knew had a video mode, but she had never tried.

Two funniest parts: I went around and shot everyone else shooting and... the guy with the Flip caught a little mini-tiff between grandma and one of her daughters, which no one noticed at the time, but it was pretty obvious on the Mac's 32" monitor the next morning.
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