Peter Abraham

This thread is exemplary. The best of what The Forum offers to all Operators world-wide. Thoughtful discussion offering solutions in a positive framework. Glad you seem to have found the core issue. The comments regarding tending all things that MIGHT vibrate loose on a Steadicam are quite useful and always worth regarding. In the heat of battle we lose sight of the small bits and sometimes the smallest bits can bite hard. Fly well and enjoy your Zephyr ! Best, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM, Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue, Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 Office / (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam

Good Morning, The Tiffen Company is pleased to announce that EVS is hosting a 2 Day Steadicam Workshop. The Workshop will be held on June 9 & 10, 2012 at their store located at 1819 Victory Boulevard Glendale, CA 91201 Tuition is $ 600.00 U.S.D. prepaid at time of registration. To register for this or any other Tiffen Steadicam Workshop, visit our Workshops Web site. This group is limited to 12 students. All Steadicams and gear are provided for students. If there are any questions regarding Steadicam Workshops or systems, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com

Good Morning, The Tiffen Company is pleased to announce that Keeble & Shuchat is hosting a 2 Day Steadicam Workshop. The Workshop will be held on June 6 & 7, 2012 at their store located at 290 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Tuition is $ 600.00 U.S.D. prepaid at time of registration. To register for this or any other Tiffen Steadicam Workshop, visit our Workshops Web site. This group is limited to 9 students. All Steadicams and gear are provided for students. If there are any questions regarding Steadicam Workshops or systems, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com

Thanks to one and all for the RSVP's and keep em coming !! We're looking forward to an awesome week. Best Peter

Mark- Thanks to Al Gore and his brilliant invention- " Global Warming " - it was just glorious there in Madison. Warm during the day, barely crisp at night, amazing sunsets. Glorious !!!

Indeed. The Tiffen Steadicam Night is Monday night, April 16th. It's being held at Diablo's Cantina at the Monte Carlo. It goes from 7 to 9 pm. Hope to see one and all there !!! Best, Peter Abraham

Hi Leo, Glad we got it sorted out for you. Please do let us all know how the rig is behaving with the new gimbal. Any questions or concerns regarding set up and use of the Steadicam, let us know here and we'll work with you. Best, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM, Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam

My thanks to those who have already sent an RSVP !! I know for most of us it's a last minute thing because of work. Please do email or call me so we can give the chef a head count for dinnah ! Best to our community, Peter

Nelson You're welcome to stop by on Wednesday in the afternoon, see the students working on their test shot ! CinequipWhite in Montreal. Best to all Peter

Oh gosh far from hiding any ideas. Glad to write it out here. First of all, I'm eager to try Eric's solution ( pun intended ). Anodized aluminum on anodized aluminum is astonishingly dry. Just the Ghobi Desert of dry. My go-to squeak fix costs . 99 cents and lasts for months. Get a stick of Chap-Stik. Rub a bit on your finger. Apply to the squeaky bits. The wax lasts much longer than a thinner lubricant, does the job, and can be reapplied in the field quickly. However, if this aquatic goop that Eric has soaks into the top molecular layers of the metal and creates an area of true lubrication, I'd love to try it out. Best to all, Peter Abraham

The Tiffen Company is pleased to invite all in our community to the 6th Annual Operators' Night at the Lake Arrowhead Classic Steadicam Workshop. Come and share info and stories and join us for dinner and an evening of thoughtful discourse. The Instructors who look forward to seeing you are Jerry Holway, Garrett Brown, Chris Fawcett, Ruben Sluijter, Evan Barthelmann and Peter Abraham. It will be held on Wednesday, March 28th 2012. We would ask those of you who wish to come up and join us to notify me by email so we have a head count for dinner. As is always the case, please schedule your travel up into the San Gabriel's to arrive after 4:00 pm, so that the work of the day can proceed through as planned. The address and driving directions are available here.. Dinner is at 6:30 pm, the evening commences after dinner and wraps at 10:30 pm. The Tango® will be available to be flown and examined, along with the full line of Steadicam systems. Hope to see many of you up there !! Email me with any questions. Best to one and all, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM, Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam

Glad to hear it got worked out that fast !! We do try hard to step up and cover someone on set whenever possible. Have a great show out there. Best, Peter Peter Abraham Dir. of Technical Services, Steadicam© G.M. Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845)595-2270 fax Pabraham@tiffen.com Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam Thesteadicamworkshops.com

Hi David, First of all, this Forum is a positive place where people learn and share and support each others' efforts. No need to apologize for working things out on your own !! I owned a MS Elite for a long time. If you have any issues arise that are specific to that rig, post them here and by all means feel free to email me directly. Enjoy the rig ! Best, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM, Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam

In Toronto a few years ago at one of my workshops, we tinkered around with an LE in extreme low mode. We used a very long post to drop from the F Bracket to the handle ( which hung inverted, of course. ) It made for quite a bit of vibration. A good reminder of why we don't sell extended length arm posts for the smaller rigs- we work hard to avoid any vibration in any situation and using a thinner post that is so long as to allow the camera to brush the ground would induce vibration. Better to use our low mode cage. 078-2038-01 $ 550.00 for the video cage with 12" rods. Best Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM, Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com <http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com/> Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam

More an aphorism than a parable... It's not the time it takes to take the takes. It's the time it takes between the takes to take the takes.

Lars Erik, nicely said. When I was Operating full-time, I knew enough to never get into the car after wrap feeling as though I'd nailed every shot. Humility is one misstep away, one split-second of framing that isn't just exactly what the story needed at that moment, one tiny angle of tilt or pan too little or two much. It's what kept Operating endlessly interesting and engaging. You are either in the moment 100% of the time, or you really have no business being on that set. It's that 100% engagement that shows through in so many posts on this message board. Peter Abraham Dir. of Technical Services, Steadicam™ The Tiffen Company 26 years as an Operator.

Urgent Update on this Workshop ! We have had to make a change in the dates. New Dates for the CinequipWhite Montreal Workshop: March 6 & 7, 2012. All other details identical. Best, Peter

Good Morning, The Tiffen Company is pleased to announce that CinequipWhite Montreal is hosting a 2 Day Steadicam Workshop. The Workshop will be held on March 13 & 14, 2012. Location is 2909, boul Taschereau ,St-Hubert PQ J4T 3K1. Tuition is $ 600.00 U.S.D. prepaid at time of registration. To register for this or any other Tiffen Steadicam Workshop, visit our Workshops Web site. This group is limited to 9 students. All Steadicams and gear are provided for students. If there are any questions regarding Steadicam Workshops or systems, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com 0 + - Report Icon Report Reply Icon MultiQuote Reply Icon Reply Edit icon

Good Morning, The Tiffen Company is pleased to announce that VSA, Inc is hosting a 2 Day Steadicam Workshop. The Workshop will be held on April 11 & 12, 2012. Location is 6929 Seward Ave Lincoln NE 68507. Tuition is $ 600.00 U.S.D. prepaid at time of registration. To register for this or any other Tiffen Steadicam Workshop, visit our Workshops Web site. This group is limited to 9 students. All Steadicams and gear are provided for students. If there are any questions regarding Steadicam Workshops or systems, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com

We could just replace the lenses with Lemos and voila !!! :) Ditto with Charles and Alec. Component failure is avoided at great cost and effort. As the late great Ted said, " Don't worry- 90% of the time, it's in the cable ". As long as you've got redundancy and have eliminated every potential component failure, you'll be good to go. Where's that spare arm?

Anyone have phone or email for our friend in NY? Please email it to me. Many thanks !!! Best, Peter pabraham@tiffen.com

Hey guys, Thank you one and all for the help. I've got both a TriAx to CoAx turnaround kit coming and a light thin true TriAx coming. I knew that the community would offer up help. :) John, have a blast in there. I turned down the offers through the years to do the ABC show every New Year's Eve. Now of course I wish I'd done at least one. Best, Peter ( Now, the fun part- making live t.v. next week for a day !!! )

Hi folks, I need to lay hands on two items. I'm helping someone in the Live T.V. world check out a Steadicam and need to use the parts to properly show the rig. 1. A set of tri ax to co ax adaptors and the coax that runs in between them. 2. If anyone HAS, a genuine very thin flexible TriAx cable. CP used to sell it,then Tiffen did till the custom-pulled spool ran out then. It was a silicone-sheathed cable. Please email me if you've got some of this stuff on hand. Will pay FedEx both ways of course. I need it in hand by Jan 4, and will send it out Jan 5 back to you. Many thanks in advance, Peter Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM, Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam

Hi David, Glad to have my fellow Tiffen Steadicam colleagues at the factory dig for it. Fair warning- I owned a MS Elite™. The manual was fairly thin, but periodically CP did send out additional pages to it. I'll see what we can scare up. Please email me your info directly. As for the remote- I'm told it CAN be done in the field but is tricky. Will get details and email you those as well. Best to all, Peter Abraham Director of Technical Services, Steadicam® GM, Steadicam Workshops Program The Tiffen Company 90 Oser Avenue Hauppauge NY 11788 (917) 453-1219 (845) 595-2270 Fax pabraham@tiffen.com http://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com Skype: peterabrahamsteadicam

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