Only $65 bucks for your “eye in the sky.” Hmmm…I could use this. Plus is look just too cool. Check out the video. I also posted the link below from the website I saw this on – I frequent the page daily.

Of course, they haven’t shown it crash to see how durable this thing is like but c’mon, it’s an AirHog. My son had one and we crashed it numerous times.

Hawk Eye RC Chopper: Your $65 Personal Spy Drone

Now, I can practice on this little baby until I work my way up to this one…yeah right. But cool video shots.

Make: Online : DSLR equipped RC helicopter

Awesome video:

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Purchased a new wireless mic the other day and I finally tested it today.

Works great. You can click on the picture for a larger view.

This is a wireless set up which mounts on my camera and gives me freedom of movement.

It’s only a mono audio mic so I’ll have to adjust the pan (make it stereo) in my video editing software but since this will be more for interviews — like we did on the 2010 Blessed Sacrament Catholic School Sports Banquet videos me and my buddies put together — it will work just fine.

We got a lot of “air conditioning” background noise with my boom mic while filming the coach interviews in the gymnasium so this mic will help eliminate that background noise since the lapel mic pins onto the subject just below their chin. They clip the transmitter onto their belt and I have the receiver mounted on my camera hot shoe.

For the price, this setup works pretty good so I’m pleased. I had the help of my Emmy testing it. She stood about 20 feet away reading a Nancy Drew mystery novel to me.

Jeez, I’m starting to look professional eh?

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I was reading this webpage I frequent and ran across this picture of how they actually created the Star Wars crawl intro.

Just goes to show – you don’t need CG all the time.

It states in the article (see link below) that George Lucas later replaced the intro crawl with computer-generated crawls.

So That’s How They Filmed the Star Wars Opening Crawl…

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Check out this video – some of it EVEN had me fooled.

…now where did I put my green screen? :-)

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Probably not…but one can hope.

I’ve been seeing a lot of adverstisments for the new movie, AVATAR, the new movie by James Cameron and they have partnered up with Panasonic.

As I was watching the commercial, I caught a glimpse of James Cameron using MY CAMERA! It looks like the Panasonic DVX100B? See my camera to the left with the optional mic on it.

If you watch the video below – right at 5 seconds – you’ll see him using it to block some shots. That’s a screen shot of it above.

So who knows…maybe I’m on the right track? :-)

You can view the video below.

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