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DV UPDATE SHORTS HD BELIEVERS IKEGAMI HIGH-DEF CAMERAS USED FOR HDTV WORSHIP SERVICE. A t the Church at Pinnacle Hills, in Rogers, Arkansas, belief is powerfully conveyed in Winners, a weekly worship program featuring Pastor Ronnie Floyd that’s carried on the Daystar Television Network. Recently, the Church upgraded to a 2,400 seat, entirely high-definition (HD) facility, outfitted with five Ikegami HDK75EXBF portable HD cameras and two Ikegami HDL-40 box-style HD units. “When reaching out to such a large audience with such an important message, we felt that it was vital for us to have the best presentation for the program, which led us to upgrade to HD,” explains Bryan Bailey, the Director of Media for the Church. “Of the various manufacturers, Director of Media Bryan Bailey with an HDK-75EXBF Ikegami provided us with the best quality at the most affordable price.” Ikegami’s HDK-75EXBF is a full-digital HDTV compact portable camera system that can be converted for studio use with either 5" or 9" viewfinders, and full studio lenses with the SE-H700 System Expander. Whether in a portable or studio configuration, the HDK-75EXBF provides strong HD image performance and sophisticated design, including an integrated fiber adapter. Three 2⁄3" 2,200,000-pixel IT CCDs achieve high image quality, with a resolution of 1,000 lines and a S/N ratio of 56dB. The Church’s assortment and arrangement of Ikegami HD cameras has been ideal for the production of Winners. “Four of our HDK-75EXBF cameras are on floor level, on the stage and in the audience to capture the service, with the fifth configured for jib use,” Bailey notes. “Our HDL-40 box cameras are mounted on the edge of the balcony to shoot the baptisteries, which are up high. These cameras also allow us to get wide shots of the congregation and the choir.” TWO FOR ONE? DV: How do you see the jobs of event still photographers and videographers converging as cameras become capable of doing “double duty”? ROY CHAPMAN: We see the “convergence” of digital technologies as a good thing, as we feel it will open up more, not less, business opportunities for professional videographers, especially WEVA members. It was a key reason for presenting WEVA’s Wide World of Weddings & Events at the Photo Marketing Association ‘08 show in January. It was a whole new trade show developed for professional videographers due to the emergence of new digital technologies and new event video creativity. What do you hear from WEVA members on this issue? It’s new ground for WEVA members, as it is for anyone in pro video. Once technologies are explained and add-on con- From left, Chapman with 24 editor Haydar Adel and WEVA’s Dan Argenas. cepts described, it’s fairly easy to understand how key aspects fit in with an existing video business and make it stronger, more attractive to customers, and more profitable. The question is, How do you implement and market? That’s what the WEVA convention in January was all about. It’s cutting-edge, which allows sharp-marketing videographers to get a competitive advantage in their market today, before it all becomes standard and widely available in the near future. Still photographers and videographers have traditionally had separate job descriptions, but if one is to enter the job market in the next 3-5 years, what will be the expected skill set? Actually, we’re talking about today! A wedding and event videographer can take advantage of convergence now and expand their business today. Some of the new skills needed apply to postproduction applications, some apply to on-site coverage. For example, today, skilled videographers can now turn their digital stills into extra profits just by adding new low-cost gear or third-party outsourcing that produces tangible, “hard copies” of those stills. And that could be in an album or a book, a jigsaw puzzle even event jewelry. This was all available and demonstrated at the WEVA/PMA convention in January. With still frames, when you’re shooting video on site, there are techniques you can use with your video camera now to enhance the capture of stills that clients will want to buy. (continued on page 49) Q& A WEDDING AND EVENT VIDEOGRAPHER ASSOCIATION CHAIRMAN ROY CHAPMAN CONSIDERS THE CONVERGENCE OF STILL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND VIDEOGRAPHERS. 8 dv march 2008 www.dv.com http://www.dv.com

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Digital Video - March 2008 Contents DV Update Q&A Fest Circuit Instant Expert LP-Micro Light Fusion F2 Drive PPFP-3N Bag Ego Digital Imaging Light KE-79CC Boom & Fuzzy Close-Up: Honoring George Spiro Dibie, ASC Food Fight Key Thoughts on Chroma key DV101 Dynamic Duos First Look: A Big Serve Cameras & Courtrooms Ad Index Production Diary

Digital Video - March 2008

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