Sloan Productions

Just unveiled today during NAB Digital Cinema Summit. Sony‘s entry into the 3D camera race, the EX3-D.  Currently a prototype, yet has full 1920×1080, records to sxs cards, adjustable inter-axial and convergence, interchangeable lenses.  To be field tested in July. Photo credit: Bob Sloan, Sloan Productions www.nabshow.com www.sony.com

For the Animal Planet program Dogs 101, Powderhouse Productions of Cambridge Massachusetts came to San Diego to shoot a segment about “Murphy the Surfing Dog”.  Director of Photography, Bob Sloan shot the feature in high definition using Sloan’s Panasonic Varicam package and lenses.  The shoot consisted of interviews and B-roll and was produced by Tom [...]

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          For ESPN’s critcally acclaimed program E:60 we shoot specifically for slow motion effects using the Panasonic Varicam’s ability to shoot at 60 frames per second. In this photo, Olympic hopeful, and amputee Jeff Skiba clears the bar for our camera for a story called “Bionics”.

Somebody’s got to do it! In the push to publicize Microsoft’s Guitar Hero 3 video game for the Christmas season we covered a cross country duel between Carmen Electra in Los Angeles and Tony Romo in Dallas for Kenny Mayne’s Mayne Event. Produced by Tom McCollum.

Antonio Gates of the San Diego Chargers hams it up for the camera and ESPN producer Martin Khodabakhshian during production of elements for ESPN‘s weekly Countdown show and a feature about “Fear in the NFL”. See a sample of our sports production work in the screening room. www.espn.go.com