Zerb 68 – Autumn 2008

Contents

• The London Mayoral Debate – producing a major OB at short notice 
• Nigel Meakin on shooting Michael Palin’s ‘New Europe’ on HD 
• True Lens Services – on-site visit to the Midlands-based lens specialists 
• Filming the bears of Romania 
• The story of the technical challenges involved in sending pictures from the Moon for the Apollo programme 
• FCP training – two approaches to getting to grips with the Final Cut suite 
• Click – BBC News 24’s technology show 
• Kosovo – filming the historic weekend when Europe’s newest state gained independence 
• Schedule D or Schedule E – the latest on the tax status of freelance cameramen 
• Polecam in the Arctic – filming walrus and seals in the frozen north 
• Sony PMW-EX3 reviewed 
• Multi-camera operations in a surgical operating theatre 
• Relocating from Zimbabwe – what is it like to start all over again in the UK? 
• Shooting against windows – RoscoVIEW reviewed 
• Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 reviewed 
• The work of the BFI’s National Film & TV Archive

Managing Editor: Alison Chapman Editor: Ged Yeates