I'm looking for instructions, guides, or suggestions of something fun to do with my camera or laptop during an upcoming cross-country drive. [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2008 - 8 answers

How can we film an epic peeps battle (in a microwave)? The problems are it's too dark, and the camera wants to autofocus on the grid on the microwave door instead of the peeps. [more inside]
posted on Mar 21, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there any decent free or cheap online contest judging software out there? I'm looking for a tool to help people submit and judge media contests (specifically photo and multimedia contests) for a non-profit organization. The closest thing I've seen for this is this Omni Contest site: http://www.omnicontests3.com/ [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - 2 answers

Best gear for inexpensive high-speed digital video capture? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2007 - 7 answers

Photography/video filter: On the American Choppers show, I saw "Mikey" shoot his camera, "what looked like a cannon rebel xti" at like something like 20 frames per second and with some tech help turned it into a short movie. [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm shooting video at an event attended by grade-school children, and my client (a Chicago museum) wants b-roll of "engaged kids." Advice? [more inside]
posted on Feb 14, 2007 - 6 answers

I’m looking for a video camera and can’t seem to find one with the features I need—a microphone input jack, records direct to digital formats and good enough quality of video for web stuff. [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2006 - 9 answers

I have two rolls of exposed, undeveloped super 8mm film in my freezer right now. I want to have processing and a digital transfer done. I've done a bunch of research online, yet I can't seem to find a place that I would feel comfortable sending my film to that isn't astronomically expensive. Where can I have this done? Bonus if its in or somewhat near Chicago.
posted on Sep 14, 2006 - 7 answers

I don't remember where I saw it, but a week or two ago there was an pretty cool movie that was made by a gal who used no video but combined hundreds of digital photos (stills) made with her (still) digital camera. [more inside]
posted on Aug 23, 2006 - 13 answers

Advice on buying a digital camera with video functions, please. [more inside]
posted on Jan 3, 2006 - 9 answers

Selective Depth-of-Field in Six Feet Under, and a question about lens flares. [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2005 - 12 answers