http://www.notafraid.com Inspired Digital Production Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:49:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.notafraid.com/2010/04/z-finder-jr-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Not Afraid! Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:49:48 +0000 http://www.notafraid.com/?p=664#comment-377 Ted, sorry you had such a bad experience with it. My experience with the sticky frame hasn't been bad. I put it on and it's staid on with no issue for the better part of a year. I haven't had to use the extenders either. Unlike when I wrote this first impression review a year ago, there are a bunch of other viewfinder options out there now, so hopefully you'll find something that better suits your needs, for a reasonable price. Ted, sorry you had such a bad experience with it. My experience with the sticky frame hasn’t been bad. I put it on and it’s staid on with no issue for the better part of a year. I haven’t had to use the extenders either. Unlike when I wrote this first impression review a year ago, there are a bunch of other viewfinder options out there now, so hopefully you’ll find something that better suits your needs, for a reasonable price.

]]> http://www.notafraid.com/2010/04/z-finder-jr-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Ted Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:40:33 +0000 http://www.notafraid.com/?p=664#comment-376 I find this an awful, awful awful piece of engineering for a very high price. The sticky frame unstuck the first time I tried to pull off the finer, even after the 24 hours of "curing" with the book on top, per instructions. The bracket is to thick that my Libec tripod-plate screw just barely engages, so I worry about stripping the thread on the camera. And even if I want to leave the bracket on, the tripod plate has to be removed to open the battery door. So every time I need to change or charge the battery I'll be risking damaging the threads. The "frames" they use in place of diopter barely budge when you try to change them. So if I set it for my eyes, my assistant can't easily change when he needs to use this camera. Junk, junk, junk. A $265 piece of plastic with a poorly executed system to connect it with the camera. I am cursing the name Zacuto right now. And Phillip Bloom for shilling this garbage. I find this an awful, awful awful piece of engineering for a very high price. The sticky frame unstuck the first time I tried to pull off the finer, even after the 24 hours of “curing” with the book on top, per instructions. The bracket is to thick that my Libec tripod-plate screw just barely engages, so I worry about stripping the thread on the camera. And even if I want to leave the bracket on, the tripod plate has to be removed to open the battery door. So every time I need to change or charge the battery I’ll be risking damaging the threads.
The “frames” they use in place of diopter barely budge when you try to change them. So if I set it for my eyes, my assistant can’t easily change when he needs to use this camera.
Junk, junk, junk. A $265 piece of plastic with a poorly executed system to connect it with the camera.
I am cursing the name Zacuto right now. And Phillip Bloom for shilling this garbage.

]]> http://www.notafraid.com/2010/12/dualeyes-beta-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Post Production Update #1 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:16:24 +0000 http://www.notafraid.com/?p=949#comment-375 [...] I use a program called Dual Eyes to sync the audio and video together.  It saves me hours.  I previously wrote a short review of it for my other site, notafraid.com.  Check that out if you want more detailed information, but you simply load up the audio and video [...] [...] I use a program called Dual Eyes to sync the audio and video together.  It saves me hours.  I previously wrote a short review of it for my other site, notafraid.com.  Check that out if you want more detailed information, but you simply load up the audio and video [...]

]]> http://www.notafraid.com/2011/04/inspiration-the-mercury-men/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Paul Cuoco (@notafraidfilm) Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:46:33 +0000 http://www.notafraid.com/?p=1185#comment-374 Inspiration – The Mercury Men http://goo.gl/fb/Tdut9 Inspiration – The Mercury Men http://goo.gl/fb/Tdut9

]]> http://www.notafraid.com/2011/04/the-specimen-is-in-the-cup/comment-page-1/#comment-371 igus Slider (@igus_slider) Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:25:29 +0000 http://www.notafraid.com/?p=1165#comment-371 "One workhorse that was used a lot more than I anticipated was my igus based camera slider..." http://j.mp/eugDV0 - @SpecimenFilm blog post "One workhorse that was used a lot more than I anticipated was my igus based camera slider…" http://j.mp/eugDV0 – @SpecimenFilm blog post

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