XDCAM EX Journal - Format Card?
Today is the first day of shooting for my documentary 4th Estate in the 21st Century; my final project as a Brooks student (not counting the gen eds I have left in May/June). For this project Brooks generously granted me use of one of the new Sony PMW-EX1 cameras the VJ program just bought. Kudos go to Brooks for being on the bleeding edge of technology. The EX1 is a stellar camera that has amazed me left and right with its clean and sharp and nice and tight images (Brooks joke).
Though I've had the camera in my hands off and on over the last couple of months, I haven't had much opportunity to really put it through the paces a VJ student normally would. So today was the first time I'd done any real shooting with the camera. This probably should have been more nerve racking than it was; the first day out with an untested camera that has a reputation (from others, not me) of being finicky and troublesome should not be the first day of shooting on a crucial project. True to the laws of nature, today was the first time I had major issues with the camera.