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Quick Response Codes And The Smart Videographer

There's a technology that is wildly popular in Asia and Europe, and is just now hitting the US. I predict it's going to be very big here this year. It's called "QR codes.” You've probably seen these strange looking codes. Quick Response codes are bar codes...

10 Camera Reviews Needed

Review your favorite video camera and get a full authors’ credit, AND a link to your website from VideoUniversity. Camera review articles will be placed in our free online library, so lots of people will see it. You don't have to be a great writer, but you do...

Jack LaLanne and Me

Jack LaLanne 1914-2011, the founder of the modern fitness movement and the first video workout star dies at the age of 96. While I wouldn't say he was a friend, I was privileged to work with him a couple times. In my past life as a Director of Photography, I was...

Wedding Videographers Dissed

In a new print and online ad from Epson, the printer company is aiming at wedding photographers. Quoted from the ad: "You tune out traffic and tourists. Keep one eye on a five-foot long train. Dodge videographers and hot dog carts. Charm well-meaning Moms. Corral 11...

Sony To Develop A Professional E-Mount Camcorder

Sony Corporation announced today that it is developing a new type of E-mount interchangeable lens camcorder for professional use that is equipped with a Super-35mm equivalent large format CMOS sensor. This new addition to Sony's professional "NXCAM" line will be...

ViewSonic’s 3D Pocket Video Camera

The ViewSonic 3DV5 features two fixed-focus 5 megapixel fixed focus cameras that can capture 3D content at 720p resolution, as well as standard 2D video. The video camera has 10 MB of integrated memory as well as an SD/SDHC card slot that can support up to 32 GB of...

Wear A Camcorder On Your Ear

The Looxcie is a $199 camcorder that you wear over your ear. The Looxcie sends video via Bluetooth to a smartphone to record and share it. At the moment it is only compatible with Android 2.0 phones, but iPhones and Blackberries are coming before the end of the year....

DSLRs are Dead

Panasonic AG-AF101 What if you had a video camera that had all the virtues of DSRL cameras, but none of the video workarounds? Well it's about to be announced. Uses micro 4/3 lenses or adapt ANY other lens to it. Built-in internal optical neutral density filters. XLR...

Kodachrome Film Tests in 1922

In these newly preserved tests, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, actress Mae Murray appears almost translucent, her flesh a pale white that is reminiscent of perfectly sculpted marble, enhanced with touches of color to her lips, eyes, and...