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Dave Navarro — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:40:09 +0000

When shooting video (or stills) on your DSLR camera, it’s always best to use a prime lens like a 50mm F1.8 or F1.4. However, sometimes the subject you are shooting requires a zoom lens and prime zooms can be very expensive. Fortunately both Canon and Sigma have zooms that are inexpensive (around $200). When [...]

RevoStock — Stock Footage, Audio, A.E. Projects and F.C. Projects

Dave Navarro — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:28:07 +0000

I’m reading through old posts today and it occurs to me that I’ve been pretty hard on RevoStock and it might seem like I don’t like them or recommend them… which couldn’t be farther from the truth. So, I’ll take some time to review RevoStock, both the good and the bad.

RevoStock sells Stock [...]

More to come…

Dave Navarro — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:53:55 +0000

These past two months I have been very busy with a number of projects. I worked as an Associate Producer and Director of Photography on an small Indie Film. I took a few consulting gigs as a photographer. I wrote a script for a documentary I plan to start shooting in October. And I [...]

Canon T2i Review

Dave Navarro — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:27:27 +0000

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that Canon announced a new Video DSLR (vDSLR) in early February. And they quickly started shipping it the last week of February. The Canon EOS Rebel T2i is an 18 megapixel camera with support for recording video at an unbelievable price of $799 (body [...]

My Stock Footage Tool Chest

Dave Navarro — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:06:40 +0000

I am often asked about the tools I use in my Stock Footage business, so rather than answer you all separately, here it is…

Video Editing

I am currently using Adobe After Effects CS4 to do my video editing. Expensive, but it really is the best for the job in my opinion. Especially with [...]

Stock Footage News — January 2010

Dave Navarro — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:38:25 +0000

As is pretty typical this time of year, most of the stock agencies are behind in reviews… some more than others. Over the Christmas and New Years holidays reviews slow to a trickle and fall behind. It usually takes most agencies about a month to catch up. As of January 25th RevoStock is a [...]