Why vx1000 for skateboarding

By Nickolas Buchanan , Staff writer January 18, A VX is most likely the greatest camera of all time for capturing skateboarding. Here are a few reasons why a the Vx is still used today. First of all, the colors are insane! No camera has the rawness and the crazy pop that this lens has. Although, what else can you expect from a Carl Zeiss lens? To take a step further you can purchase a Mark 1 fisheye for the Vx and that just looks spectacular combined with the lens already built in.

Second, the microphone is so realistic it is very well known to capture every move the skateboards does, every snap, pop, revert, etc. It cannot get better than the that. No other camera microphone matches the one on the vx and those two reasons alone are the reason why the Digital Handycam DCR-VX is the best camera in the skate world.

I love it. Nobody could really pinpoint the exact reason why, but the unanimous consensus is that grinds, smacks, and the rolling thunder of urethane just sound better on the Everyone loves that LCD flipscreen. Just pop it open, and not only can it help in rolling long lens shots, but Ty Evans even uses it to save time and keep the sweaty dudes away from the viewfinder. Video vampires know that this is where the completely destroys the Ever miss that twenty-stair kickflip backside lipslide because your battery died?

Yeah, that would suck. Time is key, and this helps keep the session going with no interruptions. The countries NOT represented would be a shorter list. After the VX, big skateboarding brands could make beautiful, timeless videos, and no-name skateboarders could also film and edit videos just like the pros.

The VX was a landmark step in solidifying filmed skating as the central goal and product of skateboarding in general. Report this as stuck in the past on Instagram and Twitter. One skater's experience battling depression and his thoughts on how we can help others like him. We asked a fancy art critic what she thought about some of our favorite skateboarder's art.

He just erased me from history, haha! So why did this toy go away? We talked with the inventor to find out. Skaters have the street smarts, but do they have the book smarts too? Wanna work in skating? Just sprinkle these 7 phrases around and you'll sound like a "skate linguist" in no time! We were like, fuck that, let's just do our own shit. July 13, pm. July 28, am. Jenkem Magazine. Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube. The longer and more fun answer: Skateboarders made the VX an institution.