Video Equipment

Charles Fulton
September 2003

Canon's Elura 50 Mini DV camcorder features a 1/6-inch, 680,000-pixel CCD and a 10x optical zoom lens. It is capable of recording short motion-JPEG movies to SD or MultiMedia Card memory cards. The unit can record from the analog audio and video inputs, for transferring program material from analog video sources. The unit includes a 2-inch diagonal view screen and color viewfinder.
(800) 828-4040
www.canondv.com
Suggested Retail Price: $899

Bella's new keyboards include a built-in jog/shuttle controller. The Optima version comes with a sticker set to help the user navigate popular editing applications more quickly and efficiently with important shortcuts and additional sticker sets are available for purchase. The Professional series includes the same color-coded shortcut keys found on Bella's EZ Keyboard series.
(818) 563-9500
www.bella-usa.com
Suggested Retail Price: Optima: $100
Professional: $169

SanDisk's Cruzer is a 3-inch memory card adapter that makes accessing data more portable. You can access still shots, MPEG-1 movies and sound clips (among other files) stored on MultiMediaCards and SD cards without having to attach your camera to your computer or install drivers. The device comes packaged with SD cards, at capacities ranging from 32MB-1GB.
(408) 542-0500
www.sandisk.com
Suggested Retail Price: Starting at $60

Sony's DSR-DU1 hard disk recorder can record up to three hours of DV25 footage onto its 2.5-inch 40GB hard drive. Sony's professional DVCAM camcorders with the optional CA-DU1 camera adapter record to the device which can be powered directly from a DVCAM camcorder, a dedicated battery pack or from an AC adapter. Adobe Premiere 6.5 should support the unit.
(800) 686-SONY
bssc.sel.sony.com/
Suggested Retail Price: $2,250 (Camcorder not included)

Shining Technology's CitiDISK DV is a laptop hard
drive recorder that connects to most camcorders with FireWire ports. Some models have an internal rechargeable battery for cordless portability. Connect it to your computer at the end of a shoot and it appears as a disk drive, with your footage ready to edit.
(714) 761-9598
www.shining.com
Suggested Retail Price: Starting at $549

Artbeats has released a new line of stock footage libraries, including views of London, San Francisco and Seattle, dolphins, spring flowers, waterfalls, water effects and skydiving. All material is the QuickTime format and is available in NTSC. Some material is also available as HD.
(800) 444-9392
www.artbeats.com
Suggested Retail Price: NTSC starts at $249
HD starts at $799

A multitalented camera support device, the Steddiepod is the brainchild of award-winning inventor Eddie Barber. It combines the functions of handheld stabilizer, a camera stand, a monopod, a tripod, a boom and a low-view mount all in one device.
(818) 982-7775
www.ezprompter.com
Suggested Retail Price: $399

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