Foreword

For most of my professional life I’ve told stories of one kind or another for a living. For the last 13 years I’ve co-hosted and co-executive produced the show Mythbusters on Discovery Channel. We’re all equipment junkies on our crew; high-speed cameras, helicopters, GoPros and Blackmagic cameras, 3D, VR, underwater photography—you name it, and we’ve tried it to help tell our stories. The funny thing is, every time I get together with Eric Cheng and we start talking about gear, I begin the conversation under the impression that our little show is on the bleeding edge, and invariably I find that Eric has a vast amount of previous experience with exactly the tech I’ve only recently discovered.

Our second cameraman, Duncan, got interested ...

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