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  • Review: Sony CCD-VX3 Hi8 Camcorder, Part 1 - Consumer to Prosumer
    May 6, 2025 BHA+, Cameras, Gear Tests

    Review: Sony CCD-VX3 Hi8 Camcorder, Part 1 – Consumer to Prosumer

    Sony VX3 Hi8 Camcorder Part 1: Consumer to Prosumer     When I started a video transfer business around 1991-1992, my first camcorder was the Sony Hi8 CCD-V801, which offered good quality image, in-camera editing features, and ease & portability, but I remember my eyes widened when a year later I read of Sony’s upcoming CCD-VX3 (or VX1, as it was known in Japan and in Europe), a Hi8 camcorder that marked the company’s upper tier model for the burgeoning […]

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  • Podcast: Filmmaker / Musician / Composer SCHNÜDLBUG
    December 4, 2024 BHA+, Editor's Blog, Podcast Interviews

    Podcast: Filmmaker / Musician / Composer SCHNÜDLBUG

    My latest podcast interview at BHA+ is a lengthy conversation with Canadian filmmaker-musician-composer schudlbug and the making of his 3-D short film “Roach” where a pilot attempts to escape the debris-laden, toxic surface of a dystopian world, and evade a giant flying roach. We touch upon visual and sonic influences, crafting the film’s effects, and assembling materials for a limited VHS release with swag. Detailed in the Blog are some of the vintage video gear used to create the analog voice-triggered visuals, and the first vintage gear to be reviewed at BHA+, with Part 1 coming later next week!

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  • Welcome... to... BHA+
    November 30, 2024 BHA+, Editor's Blog

    Welcome… to… BHA+

    Announcing the soft launch of BHA+ where I review vintage consumer, prosumer, and broadcast video gear; offer practical user info for filmmakers; test footage featurettes; podcast interviews; and serialized, historical examinations of unique gear. Read the Introduction for an overview of the channel’s mandate, and details of my upcoming podcast with filmmaker-composer Schnudlbug; hear an audio podcast version of this Intro; or watch a Visual version of the podcast!

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  • Podcast: Composer / Musician / Flmmaker SPOOKEY RUBEN
    September 13, 2024 BHA+, Editor's Blog, Podcasts

    Podcast: Composer / Musician / Flmmaker SPOOKEY RUBEN

    BHA+ soft-launches with a lengthy podcast interview featuring Canadian-born musician, composer, producer, filmmaker SPOOKEY RUBEN, whose 2024 tour is in mid-flight, spanning the Eastern U.S. and Canada, and select cities in Germany.

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  • (Mis)Adventures in Video, Part III: Film School Snapshots & Gary Blakeley's The Trend (1987)
    July 11, 2022 Editor's Blog, YouTube channel

    (Mis)Adventures in Video, Part III: Film School Snapshots & Gary Blakeley’s The Trend (1987)

    Whereas Part II dealt almost exclusively with the Video Toaster’s appearance at York University, plus Zach Weddington’s superb extra-heavy release of his documentary VIVA AMIGA, the latest instalment focuses on a short film made by Gary Blakeley, whose consumerism satire THE TREND (1987) was made the year I entered Year One of York’s film program, and appeared on The Great Canadian Shorts Contest a few years later on Pay TV channel First Choice.

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  • Microtime RP-1: Questions, Questions, Questions... (UPDATED)
    August 31, 2021 Gear Tests, Mixers + Processors +SEGs

    Microtime RP-1: Questions, Questions, Questions… (UPDATED)

    With a rare DVE donated to the Hasonian, I have myriad questions about how it works. Perhaps you may have some answers?

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  • Review: Sony CCD-VX3 Hi8 Camcorder, Part 1 - Consumer to Prosumer
  • Podcast: Filmmaker / Musician / Composer SCHNÜDLBUG
  • Welcome... to... BHA+
  • Podcast: Composer / Musician / Flmmaker SPOOKEY RUBEN
  • (Mis)Adventures in Video, Part III: Film School Snapshots & Gary Blakeley's The Trend (1987)
  • Microtime RP-1: Questions, Questions, Questions... (UPDATED)

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