As we move towards using the iPad more in everyday production, we’ve been on the look out for the smallest bag, with the most storage for both camera gear and an iPad. Luckily we stumbled upon Tenbas both at NAB 2012.

The Discovery line from Tenba, features a slim, light weight profile, made out of water proof materials. The Discovery mini replaces both our Logic case sling and the bulky Tamarac Evo 8 bags.

The Discovery bag has enough room to store one camera body and three small lenses.

Available in both black and white colors.
The bottom compartment can be customize to the gear you carry around. Here we packed a couple GoPros, a 70-200, 7D body a 20mm lens and iPad.

Zipper cover securely holds contents inside the flap compartment.  The protective cover holds an intervalometer, gopro bacpac, straps and camera connection cables.

The front has enough room to hold quick to reach items, like an iPhone and extra cards.

Self healing zippers help keep your equipment safe and secure inside.

Handles on top fit nicely on tripod hooks.

The top compartment is quite spacious, with enough room to fit light cloths. We packed ours with an extra camera, H4N, windsscreen, lights and a brush pen.

On the flap we have space for a business card. The mesh ziper pocket holds a micro fiber cloth and head phones.

And when you gotta do some editing work on the go, the bag can easy convert to accommodate up to a 15 inch laptop.

To setup, we just detach the main compartment and move the top divider to the bottom front.

This gives us enough room to even fit a camera with a 24-70 lens.

The back top compartment can hold an iPad with a cover or a netbook.

This is the configuration that allows us to replace the two bags we previous traveled with.

Raised padded backing helps keep you cool by allowing airflow circulation on hot sunny days.

The straps are ultra soft providing an all day caring comfort.

The two side pouches allow enough room for a tripod, mono pod and even a bottle of water.

Bottom features an Abrasion and moister resistant materials for setting your bag down on wet surfaces.

Protective cover is included for rainy conditions.

Weight: 2.1lbs
Dimensions
Outside: 9.75w x 16H 8D in
Inside: 9W x 8H x 7D in

For projects that need onscreen talent to say long lines, we use an aduiotechnica wireless mic with a JuicedLink box to feed audio into the camera.

The preamp sounds great, but takes a few minutes to setup and it isn’t suitable for run and gun interviews.

Lucky we stumbled across Mic W’s booth during NAB. They offer a great variety of different mics for iOS devices.

The lavalier omnidirectional i825 mic has great pickup. Designed for use in broadcast, the microphone is really small, making it less visible for on air productions.

The mic ships in a compact kit box that includes, 4 windscreens (two yellow, two black), two clips styles, 10 sticky tapes (for instruments), a user manual and split adapter.

There’s enough pick up that you can even adjust the position of mic abit outside your vest to capture the audio of the sbiject.

The mic requires no power. You can also monitor audio through the split adapter.

The i825 retails for 199.99, you can get one over at mic-w.com. If you know of any other great mics for on field productions, let us know in the comments below. Don’t forget to follow us on twitter, Facebook and subscribe on youtube. We’ll see you guys next time.

Most sports enthusiasts are enamored by their favorite team(s) but when it comes to watching them play, fans have limited viewing options because of the commercial broadcast and cable tv agendas.  Channels like ESPN 3 and Verizon’s on demand streaming provide some mobility to audiences, allowing them to pick up their mobile device and plug in on the go.

Interestingly, an industry that has little support from the mainstream public sector and very little Fortune 500 influence has, in my opinion, the most accessible broadcasting experience.  The Action Sports industry, particularly surfing, allows audiences to tune in to their events from all over the world right from the users’ mobile devices.  World Tour surfing sponsors Billabong, Quiksilver, Rip Curl, and Hurley invested in native app development which is proving to be a monumental success because the connectivity to its audiences is unparalleled in sports.

The NFL, MLB and every other major sports organization should take a page out of the ASP World Tour’s book because each ASP World Tour event has a unique landing page that includes live streaming, photo galleries, heats on demand, social integration, plus more.  That’s not to say that every event needs a unique page but the major ones like the World Series could benefit from such an on-the-go experience as that.

Simply put, it’s an incredible time to be a surfing enthusiast because the level of competition is at an unprecedented high and the accessibility is the best in all of sports.

Check out the landing page designs, technology and download the most recent and current event app from Rip Curl.

Website Design Screen Shot

Over 5,000 developers traveled to one spot to spent a week learning the latest tech from one of the most biggest platforms. It was the meeting of the tribes, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference.

WWDC 2011 was a success! Armed with Canon 7D’s, we managed to shoot over 2,000+ photos.
Check out the pictures on Pedro’s Flickr Page

After a few weeks of our return, we’ve put together a short video of our experience using Final Cut Pro X. This was a great opportunity to test out some of the DSLR features in the new version of Final Cut.

Our video was shot with 2 Canon 7Ds, 50mm f/1.2, 10mm f/2.8, 20mm f/1.8

Based on what was shown at the Super Meet, we shot test clips for testing features:

• Image Stabilization
• Rolling Shutter
• Color Enhance
• Color Match
• Audio Enhance and Speed Ramp

Pedro spent the whole day editing this short from scratch to fully benchmark FPCX as a tool. Besides the obvious crashes and bugs, He was able to give it a full nine hours of solid editing. We think it’s performance was suffice and the magnetic timeline really does help in real world workflows.

The UI has been completely refined. New behaviors and metaphors feel like they’re inherited from iOS or Lion. It feels much more natural, the most commonly used tools are quickly accessible. We especially enjoy the subtle refinements like tiny switches, tool tip popovers, sliding-panel style attributes and the inverted color adjustment tabs. Window panels have a nice dark shade of grays and highlight are shades of bright and deep navy blue. A subtle orange gradient grows/shrinks in the timeline that indicates remaining render time.

Switches reveal contextual content inside of iOS like popover

Render indicators are subtle, clean and intuitive

Items like the Color Adjustment panel animate and slide left and right like iOS.

Auto saving your projects will be hard getting use to, but its great to know when it crashes, your last modification is saved. We can anticipate future updates like project versioning.

Overall its a great update with massive potential to be the next standard tool in the industry. You can be assured all of our future content will be edited in FCPX. Thank you for watching, don’t forget to subscribe!

OWC Data Double

Using the Canon 7D for time lapse photography was a great experiment. We spend the last 3 days shooting various tests and we’d like to share our experience. Our test shot were filmed with the Canon 7D. Using 10mm fisheye sigma f2.8, 70-200mm f2.8, and 20mm f1.8 sigma lens. Time lapse remote: JJC-TM-A series remote.

The JJC-TM-A series remote has a simple interface and is easy to setup. In our example, we’ve setup the shutter interval to 5 seconds which basically means a photography will be taken every 5 seconds.

Here are a range of values we set our camera settings to. Note: UV filters and polarizers were used with the 200mm and 20mm. The shot location was behind the Pixil Studios, in sunny West Palm Beach, Florida.

Shutter Interval: 5 seconds
ISO: 125-500
Shutter: 1000-4000
F.Stop: 1.8-2.8