Zerb 74 – Autumn 2011

Contents

• The Royal Wedding: What does it take to broadcast the most widely viewed
  OB ever?
• DSLRs – disappointment or delight? Do video DSLRs live up to the hype?
• The Yin and Yang of expedition film-making: in China with GTC member
  Chris Dickinson
• Field of Hope – self-shooting in Africa with a Panasonic AF101
• Aliasing – an in-depth technical explanation of this problematic phenomenon
• HD on the soaps – what camera decisions have been taken in the HD upgrade on the UK's leading soaps and why were these choices made?
• Cooke Optics: a tale of excellence and endurance, the story of a top-quality British brand
• From cameraman to DOP in Argentina – Argentinian GTC member Martin Errea describes life as a working cameraman in South America
• Syntax makes a convert – Ged Yeates tries out this SD–HD upconverter
• GTC Royal Wedding album – hundreds of GTC members worked on the Royal Wedding in April. Here are some of their photos and tales from the Big Day
• A powerful history – Zerb celebrates 40 years of Anton/Bauer batteries
• Damage limitation... for your ears only. How to protect your hearing at work
• All these dreams: changing track. How cameramen Jim Cemlyn Jones and John Brierley collaborated to release an album 'All these dreams'
• A balancing act... or how to choose the right tripod and head for your shoot
• A visit to Wimbledon Studios... introducing London's newest studio complex plus GTC sponsors 3D specialists DECODE
• Final Cut Pro X – first impressions and tips on how to get to grips wth the contoversial new FCP version
• IPv6 is coming... are you ready for it?
• Travelling together – GTC members came together earlier in the year to film the Travel of the Photographer of the Year Award Winners exhibition
• John Summers: one of the very first TV cameramen - documenting a trully extraordinary and pioneering career from the earliest days of TV broadcasting  

Managing Editor: Alison Chapman Editor: Bill Garrett