Canon XH-A1

Ladies & Gentlemen...... the bidding wars are over.

It got very close between this Canon and the Panasonic HVX200. The possibility of a tapeless work flow with the Panasonic really appealed to me, plus the ease of use and general colour compression of its DVCPro HD codec is just a lot better/easier than any HDV compression.

But with P2 Media still being rather expesnsive and also the sighting of a great bargain for the Canon online (thanks, t'ebay!), I ended up going for this one instead. Not to say that it's 2nd best by any means, of course!

I can't wait to start shooting in 25fps and experiment with some of the gazillion presets from the online community. And having already played with the camera indoors a bit, it becomes clear that the low-light performance of this baby is AMAZING! Will do my best to upload some test footage soon.

Oh and over Christmas, I'll be flying out to Frankfurt, Germany, to record a set by German Drum'n'Bass act HSL on boxing day. I'm only taking hand luggage.... consisting of three cameras & maybe some spare socks. Maybe.

Wishing you all a merry sausage fest!

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New videos uploaded...

Been crazy busy recently. Having finished the new video for illuminatus for their recent EP release 'The Rising Tide', I also quickly put together a little video for Nottingham's Sychatrissi for their song 'We Shall Rise', using the footage shot at their Old Angel gig in August.

Both videos are now available on the FRF YouTube channel (in the music video section) so check them out and leave some comments.

And for the last two weeks I spent long days (and nights) going through hours and hours of on-the-road footage shot with illuminatus for the production of their upcoming DVD release (working title so far: "Twelfty Months... and change").

The footage covers five major tours by illuminatus - also featuring Ministry, My Ruin, Breed 77, Susperia and Rise To Addiction - as well as a few other events on the side (studio time etc).

And although this is obviously quite a laborious process, the footage is looking promising. Plenty of 'twatterness' to go around (think of the "Texas And Back" docu... only about 100 times as long ;-).

More to come soon.

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