Behind-the-Scenes with Big Pictures

Archive for January, 2010


Shooting a Western Scene for Mayne Event

Like the crew of an old John Ford movie, or a spaghetti western of years past, they searched the Dakotas for iconic western scenes, cliches of a time gone by… Their two-day quest led them to the streets of Deadwood, old casinos and saloons, and the carved faces at Mount Rushmore. While their mission wasn’t [...]






Tom Shooting with the EZ Jib

The EZ FX Jib adds the high production value of fluid movement, at a lower in terms of cost of both time and money than larger jibs.The EZ Jib provides up to 7 feet of vertical movement, and provides a maximum camera height of 10 feet. It takes our crews under fifteen minutes to set [...]






Using the HPX170 to Interview snowboarder Steve Fischer about quest for 2010 Olympics

We’re pleased to announce the recent addition of the new Panasonic HPX170 to our camera package lineup. The AG-HPX170 is an ultra-mobile P2 HD handheld camcorder featuring full, 4:2:2 independent frame production quality HD and solid-state recording. Based on the AG-HVX200 series, the lighter HPX170 is fully solid state (no DV mechanism), and comes with [...]