by Iain Blair

HD technology isn’t just for glossy big budget projects anymore. Now thanks to smaller and smaller equipment, such as Sony’s palm-sized HC1 and HC5 HD cameras, indie filmmakers in particular are really benefiting. And documentary teams, especially ones covering dodgy, often illegal areas such as human & drug trafficking in Third World countries,are now able to boldly go where no one else dared to before and shoot stuff never before seen. Military and surveillance hardware is also impacting the indie business. Director Michael Kaliski of Omniquest recently spent two weeksin Thailand shooting coverage for a film about child slavery in Asia, and used the Sony HD cams as well as a button cam and a backpack cam. It takes practice,he says, and zoom shots are terrible when you’re bouncing around a dirt road shooting hand held. But the upside is you can sneak in places and get stuff no one else can.

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