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  1. J

    Purchasing A Video Camera

    All over, job requires a lot of travel. If he works hard and has a pleasant attitude he will have every success, and the minor choice will be very handy for sure! I wish him the best with it!
  2. J

    Purchasing A Video Camera

    Yeah a degree with do him in good stead if he's looking to be a producer, tell him to take as many classes as possible in economics and marketing and even sit in on their lectures if he's not taking the classes, being a producer is as much about being able to talk and move socially as it is...
  3. J

    Purchasing A Video Camera

    To be brutally honest a degree won't give him much more of an advantage in the industry, if he has a real passion for it I would say to start on the bottom as a runner and work up from there. The degree will give him the fundamentals in the theory, but very little practical experience. Even...
  4. J

    Purchasing A Video Camera

    Ok I work in the Film Industry so I'll go for it: Anything within a reasonable budget is to be honest not going to be used very much, most of the equipment he will be learning to use will be provided by the college as it costs tens of thousands of dollars. Any video productions that he does are...
  5. J

    Purchasing A Video Camera

    Film Production or Film Studies?
  6. J

    Nikon D7000 Info.

    http://www.singularsoftware.com/pluraleyes.html Will save you a lifetime in audio syncing.
  7. J

    Nikon D7000 Info.

    Hey could I get the NEF of that? jay-at-thefactory21.com What lens what that taken on? Cheers in advance
  8. J

    In Response to the Congo Thread: A Technical Discussion

    This is important, not to demean anyone who wheels in the US but its nothing like traveling across Africa on a 1/2 year long trip.
  9. J

    Democratic Republic of Congo: Lubumbashi to Kinshasa

    Quite funnily this also describes the West of Ireland where i live.
  10. J

    Camera Bags

    For sale Pics by TheFactory21, on Flickr Pelican 1600's for transporting and flying. For sale Pics by TheFactory21, on Flickr Thinktank Glass Taxi for the big lenses. For sale Pics by TheFactory21, on Flickr Kata Waistpacks for walking around in working mode. Loewpro Flipside 500AW by...
  11. J

    Post up your drawer/storage system

    That would actually be a really efficient support vehicle.
  12. J

    How did LR know?

    Yup Xtol is easy to transport powdered and mixed into a 5l container fits onto a roofrack nicely!
  13. J

    Timescapes, a modern portrait of the American Southwest....the film!

    I've been following Tom for a while now, he is a great guy and a master of his work. If your into the work check out Baraka and koyaanisqatsi which are the seminal works in the beautiful moviemaking world.
  14. J

    Land Cruiser Photos

    Hi there, lovely rig, would love some info on your PC setup, what size screen is that?
  15. J

    Carputer, Truckputer, Expeduter

    If you need connectors for USB/Ethernet/Firewire etc look into the Neutrik Data series http://www.neutrik.com/fr/en/dataconnectors/productline.aspx Seriously rugged stuff, I use them on Pelican cases and other things that require serious rough and tumble.
  16. J

    How many shoot RAW?

    Hehe sorry sometimes I forget most people don't need half of what I do. And yes I am used to printing very very large for ad campaigns etc so my workflows are skewed by it!
  17. J

    How many shoot RAW?

    In PS: Open all the shots in photoshop and export them as TIFF files (JPEG if our not going to print the pano) Create a new photoshop document with the dimensions of all of your panorama, it will be the normal height of your shots and then the width times the number of photos. Copy and paste...
  18. J

    How would you outfit this custom LJ?

    Yep the closer to stock in all mechanical parts you can keep it the better. Remember he's building an overland vehicle not a rock crawler, very different setups.
  19. J

    Mac Maintenance

    I've been working professionally with Macs for about 10 years, I wipe and reinstall maybe every year or two, nothing beyond that and no major problems.
  20. J

    How would you outfit this custom LJ?

    I would look into some of the Defender 90 rigs and how they are setup as its similar in a lot of ways and they have some serious experience in long distance overlanding.
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