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My Killer Canon HV20 Rig – now complete
Welcome to the DOJO!
In a minute or two I’m going to get around to talking about my video post for the day — showing off my Canon HV20 camera rig and all of the cool accessories that go with it. Before I do get around to that, I want to reveal a bit of personal information. As with a lot of husbands (and 99% of husbands who are nerds, geeks or dorks), my wife despises the clothing I pick out for myself. She particularly hates any clothing that I still manage to keep that predates the beginning of our relationship over 5 years ago. She makes fun of what she likes to call my nerd-wear or my old-man clothing. Personally, I don’t think my wardrobe is all that bad, but for the most part I bow down to her superior fashion knowledge.
Today, when she found out I was going to do a new video post for the Film Sensei website (http://www.filmsensei.com), she asked what I was going to wear and then mocked me furiously for the shirt I picked out — the one you’ll see if you watch the video portion of this post. I held my ground and said that I was posting about indie and guerrilla filmmaking and that fashion had nothing to do with it! Then, I shoo’d her away and got down to filming, feeling more than a little self-righteous. Feh, what did she know about low budget filmmakers and how dare she make fun of my cool green shirt!
After I shot my video and was going through the upload process I decided to take a look at the original video post about my Canon HV20 camera rig from just over a year ago (a year and 2 days to be precise). I have to say I just about shit myself when I saw that I was wearing the exact same shirt back then. Wow, not only is my fashion sense bad, but it’s very consistently bad. Guess it’s time to start listening to the wife!
Ok, on to the regularly schedule indie filmmaking post.
A year ago I talked quite a bit about my awesomely cool Canon HV20 and what I was doing to trick it out. I promised to do an updated video to show off the final rig with my TwoNeil 35mm adapter and then promptly forgot about it. Well, after receiving over 150 emails asking for an update on my rig, I have finally put together a quick video to show it off.
In the video you’ll see my Canon HV20 (now replaced by the Canon HV40
Overall, the Canon HV20 (and its successor, the Canon HV40
Check out the video and let me know what you think.
Until next time, Keep Shooting!
-Mat Nastos, the Film Sensei
http://www.FilmSensei.com
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What viewfinder model are you using???? Can it be used with the HV40?
June 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
In the video I was talking about the LCD screen. I’ve heard of people using a Canon viewfinder (I want to say from the XL2s, but I can’t remember exactly). The problem, if I recall correctly, was that the viewfinders are low res and you couldn’t use them for anything more than framing.
-Mat N.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:19 am
Oh, and thanks for showing off the rig. I hadn’t seen this site before today but Googled for LED light information for video and as I specified more and more found this post. VERY helpful! I find myself to lean more to the artistic and more away from the technical, so knowing what I’m capable of doing with my equipment is great. (I have the HV40 as I mentioned, which I love, but am always coveting bigger rigs, but it shoots too well to just upgrade for no reason other than aesthetics).
November 11th, 2009 at 2:24 pm