Alfeo Dixon SOC

Do you mean the same connector rather than "same cable"...? otherwise I'm not sure I understand. You'd want to observe the normal scheme of things for the 12v side I would think, so that the cable would be a male HRS plug for the rig end and a female on the other? So it wouldn't be reversible... The Lemo situation would be a little different, with male plugs on both end I would think, which would make it reversible (at least for PRO compatible owners--the Steadicam owners would have Lemo to 4 pin HRS). Guess we should take a poll here and see how many are interested. I think it might be hard to drum up 25 peeps (who haven't already ordered their units). This based on how much interest the unit got from the emails I received, and how many people are spending money on anything at all these days! Same Cable Charles. Ultra2 to Modulus is Horse 4pin male (Rig side: Video/12v) to a 4pin Horse Female (modulus side). All I'm thinking is that this cable could also be used to go from Rig to RedByte as well as RedByte to Modulus. Cutting down on the need for a completely new cables + backup. Not intended to input video with the cable I spoke of, only power, because of what you just stated and that the accessory connector on the ultra2 is NTSC and not an HDSDI output, but will supply power. Even on our ultraBright monitor is the same Hirose power supply available. I think the concept with the single cable would be simply to carry the composite video output of the box into the rig along with the power to the box, nothing to do with HD-SDI as indeed that is touchy stuff. Yes Charles, but I was thinking more along the path of Rig -> Converter -> Modulus being that I'm already HDSDI on my monitor, but the other could totally work also.

I'm quite in awe of just how much gear we need to just get the job done, but then there's just about the same portion of funds allocated into making our jobs comfortable. Just where does it end when the rates are being slashed by producers.

The Accs power on all the ENG HD cameras have a 4pin Hirose and the Steadicam Ultra2 rig also carry two 4pin Hirose. So this would make it common. Like I said, if the consensus is Lemo then that's what we'll get. If 25+ want Hirose and another 25+ want Lemo then we all may win. Lemo is a more solid connecter hands down. I really like the idea of using the same cable for inbound as well as outbound. I might be mistaken, but I thought what Steadicam called the coherent cable was just video & power in one cable

Not when you have a million dollar god complex

Hey all, Talked to Perry Drogo @ TECADS INC and a gang order of 25+ could get us a factory mod with Hirose 4pins. What I asked for is the following: Replace Power input connector with a 4Pin Hirose (HR10-7R-4P) [this is a common cable used by steadicam operators] Add Power + Video output to 4Pin Hirose (HR10-7R-4S) suppling a coherent Power & Composite Video [feeds power and video to wireless transmitter] Sort of keeping it in the realm of the Modulus cables. I guess the majority would rule on the order of what kind of connectors, but again, possible. He is checking to see if the board will handle another video output without double termination. I'lll keep you updated as i get more info. Oh, the cost would be approx, $60 ~ $100 additional (connector cost + c. $30 bench time)

Nope Charles, not short on power connectors, but I do like to keep her tidy. I do wish more manufactures would play nice together in the sand box.

Charles, Damn, should have asked this one a while ago, any chance of getting this box modded to supply power and video on the outward bound signal? Coherent Power & Video for the Modulus, don't know if the other units have a coherent input. This way we can supply power and video to both off one source of power. -Alfeo

NEW PACKAGE PRICE $4,000.00 USD

IDX CW5-HD is a HD-SDI transmitter and receiver. Rents for $300/day. I have a set which is available for rental.

If it wouldn't cost me 4x that much to fly in I would totally do it.... ROTFL!!! Correct me if I'm wrong, but off the scale rate at least a $20/h bump above operator rate... again, if you have to work at the scale min. of the contract + your kit

pCam update: From: Eubank David <biz9@me.com> Subject: pCAM for iPhone update Date: Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:40:44 PM EST To: biz9@me.com You are receiving this message because you asked to be notified when the pCAM version for the iPhone would be released. It is close to being finished with all 14 apps (calculations) bundled into one and I HOPE to have it in the App Store in February. To satisfy user demand I had wanted to release with just the first 4 apps, but I ran into iPhone memory problems and for the past 7 weeks have been dealing with workarounds for iPhone's poor memory management. Once I discovered the memory issues I felt I had to make sure it could even handle all of the apps and that is why I'm waiting for all to be completed. I just hired another programmer who is working every day on it so I'm optimistic. The iPhone was designed to handle simple apps that do one or two simple things, but pCAM has 14 apps with graphics, a Field of View Preview with Open GL illustrations, several format and aperture pickers, custom CoC, custom filters and custom formats, so it is dense. The iPhone device itself has memory leaks from other built-in apps that run in the background and after a while it runs out of memory and crashes. If you've played around with many of the other iPhone apps I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I apologize that it has taken much longer than expected and I hope to have it finished soon. Believe me, I've spent 6 months and $12,000 already and I'm ready for it to be done! Thanks for your patience. David Eubank That's it folks, just got the email this morning, sounds like it's going to be one hell of a program, after all, I used pCam & pCine for years... this time I WILL be buying it Thanks to David Eubank for your time and efforts for a great program!

no gloves or head protection, only shin pads. They are full contact, bare hand and foot. You can not punch to the face or head, but knee or kick is acceptable. I trained a little over two 3 years. I miss it, great cardio. I would add that Palates is a great way to strengthen and get the center core back into shape, it's a bit more controlled and able to focus on direct areas. If one was recovering from an injury, look into it and CONSULT with your doctor about it.

I had been having an issue with my UltraBright2 monitor, which is stock on the Ultra 2 rig, and finally after a few test at the camera house, narrowed it down to the F900's capability of spitting out different flavors of signals. 23.98P & 24P where the problem signals. All others were working.

I'd have to say Karate had me in the best shape of my post sports life, but being the full contact style of World Oyama also left me limping from the dojo... I had to stop when I got serious about steadicam. I do love cycling also, but being in midtown Atlanta is just about like a contact sports it's self... gonna give the abs workout a go... as soon as I put down the Boddington :huh:

Naaaawh. I been playing too many flight sims and... PULL UP!!! PULL UP!!! ___splat___

right click on the App's logo or name and you can 'Copy iTunes Store URL.' You can also do the same for the developers name above the logo which will copy the link to all the apps by that developer. Then I just used the link button in the forum editor to package it nicely

that is due to your membership status... just like Amex, membership has its "Privileges"

I had done this a few times and didn't know how I did it... Thanks.. very useful

pCam... when ever it is released. It's been about the wait of the Modulus 4000 :blink: iSee4K Just some to look at... Film Calc TC Calculator Pocket LD iSlate

Hey David, Great question, took me for ever to decipher the code... OVERTIME OT on wages only. So if your charging $1800 for 10 (you + kit) and your kit is $1000, then your actual rate would be the $800 for 10 which is actually and hourly for 8 hours plus the 2 hours of time and a half O.T. (1.5x). So the actual hourly rate to which overtime is based off is $72.73 an hour. RATE = HOURLY x 8 + (2 x HOURLY x 1.5) --> RATE / 11 = HOURLY Double Time is calculated after 14 hours. For the minutes, break them down into tenths for easier timecard calculations. Just divide the 60 minutes by 10, so ever 6 minutes is 1/10th or .1 on your timecard. Lets say you worked for 15 hours and 10 minutes. WAGES = HOURLY x 8 + (6 x HOURLY x 1.5) + (1.2 x HOURLY x 2) MEAL PENALTIES The meal penalty for delayed meals shall be computed as follows: First one-half (1/2) hour meal delay or fraction thereof ??$ 7.50 Second one-half (1/2) hour meal delay or fraction thereof ?.$10.00 Third and each succeeding one half (1/2) hour meal delay or fraction thereof ?..$12.50

Nikon D1x (serviced and upgraded buffer) $400 Nikon D200 $700 MB-D200 Multi Power Battery Pack (two batterys or AA Rack) $160 AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED $1,500 AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED $1,600 Jacobson Sound Blimp w/ Lens tubes for both lenses above $1,000 Pelican Case 1550 (plucked for one body & both lenses) $100 Domke Original F-1 Bag $100 Package Price only $5,000.00 USD plus Shipping/Ins Original MacBook Pro 2.16GHz / 2GB Ram $2000 (will not delete any apps... LOADED!!!)

Sweat. I hope he does all five years. I ride in Atlanta and it's scary out there, especially on the Intown roads near me. Hope Christians recovery is going well.

@$#*!... You heard about that one?!?! LOL Thanks Jerry, in all due fairness, he likes to take care of the crew first and pay within two weeks. Everyone else did get paid within those two weeks. Like you said, unless gross negligence was the caused, he should go to the line item L&D of his budget which should at least have the amount for his deductible. What really gets me is he's also an EPK guy and is thinking of getting into the union, which he will as soon as the camera crew starts asking for cards since it's now a covered position.

It's a bit of a long read, but I just wanted to poll the rest of you guys. This is an incident that happened about two months ago. I was working on an industrial job. Come to find out it was many tiers of clients, but I?ll get to that soon. I?m hired by Company-A (fake names here) to shoot steadicam for two days. So I?m gonna be all alone with a sound guy hard wired to me shooting the F900 off the rig. The first thing that comes to mind is that I would get a tool that the live TV guys use to focus and zoom with. So I set out to find one since I don?t own one... bingo, I get one from another local op at a high rate (IMHOP) based on the 100 day pay off method. Anyway, I get the unit and was going to pay out of my own pocket for the rental. I go to prep my rig at a local house (Rental House-D) even though I?m not getting paid to do so. During prep, I had to have the remote zoom/focus units cable connector rewired, so I got the specs from the manufactures and the tech changed the ends out. We tested and everything worked except the focus part. Learned after the fact there was a huge button that was labeled ?Power? on the end of the unit that turned on the focus, but the button was missing and it just looked like some strange power connector. Day of the shoot, first shot was up and a rush to get it... we did! Now I have time to add the focus/zoom into the configuration. As I start mounting and plugging I... what?s that... OH SHIT!!!! The F900 is smoking from the top near the tape transport... Sooooo, now that you got the backstory. I?m gonna shorten it all up. Finish shooting with replacement camera and the Director/Producer (Company-B which hired Company-A) loved my work and he?s also a shooter, he?s the DP. End of the second day the other producer tells me this also and ?we?ll be back in about two weeks and will call you to shoot.? NICE!!! So, I really want to find out what exactly happened to the camera as to prevent this from happening again. But without my rig, the unit and that camera... it?s all speculation. Best answer was a cross in polarity. I talked to the house (Rental House-A) that supplied the camera which was sublet from another house (Rental House-B) that sub?d it from a third house out of town (Rental House-C). While the other intown house (Rental House-D) had two sitting on the shelf, one of which became our replacement camera. Two weeks past and I haven?t gotten my check and just happened to be on a series with the sound guy from this story. He got his check about a day ago... hmmm. I call up Company-A producer and ask him what?s up. He tells me that he is still waiting to find out what the damages are going to be. ?So you want me to pay for it?? I asked all surprised. He responds with a ?well I don?t think I should have to.? I state that?s what you have insurance for, things happen beyond our control and it?s not that we intended for it, they just happen. He replies that he doesn?t want to do that because his premium will go up. Now in my 10 years of camera, I?ve bounced a lens once (didn?t brake nor dent...), flashed one mag as an AC, flashed another as a DP, dropped a steadicam monitor (my negligence so I paid for the repair) and now fried a F900. I get the following email: This has troubled me for some time Alfeo. I have consulted with many people in the business that I know and trust. Most of them know you. They all advise me to pay the camera repairs out of what I owe you and then send you the rest. Nothing personal, this is simply business. The repair bill finally came in yesterday, that is why I have waited to call you. Also I have a bad cold and have felt like crap. The total cost is $3,400. $1,800 for the repairs. I and Rental House-A called in some favors to get that much lower rate. Savings on labor, promises to rent from Rental House-C, etc. The Rental House-D rental is $1,600. If I file an insurance claim, my rates will go up. My monthly premium goes up every month. Through no fault of my own. Yes I have insurance, but is it right and just that I pay for the repairs, the replacement camera AND higher insurance premiums for years to come? My deductible is $1,500. I shouldn't have to withhold money from my family for this. Also you should know that if I file an insurance claim, they tell me that they will go after you and Rental House-D to collect. I have dealt with insurance companies before. They wont let this go. It will be an on-going headache for you and for Rental House-D, which certainly won't help your relationship with Rental House-D. I was hoping that you could prevail upon Rental House-D to waive the rental because it is obvious that the cable was at fault. You trusted them to make a cable that doesn't cause problems. I'm not blaming you. But I am saddened that they won't stand behind they work, and their mistakes. Because of this I won't rent from them or recommend to my clients that they rent from them again. Over the last fifteen years, though I don't have a Rental House-D account, I have indirectly rented many tens of thousands of dollars of equipment from them. So, if you could lean on them, that means you get $1,600 in your pocket more than I would be able to pay you otherwise. I would only withhold from you the $1,800 in repairs. Alfeo, you are a nice guy. You do good work on Steadicam. I want to use you again. But frankly, if you insist on getting paid in full and if I do pay you in full, I won't hire you again and I won't be able to recommend you to others. I am not a vindictive person. People who know me well know that I turn the other cheek, sometimes far too often. But that is what I will have to do. And what bothers me most is that until today you have not apologized to me about this event. You have continued to cast blame elsewhere, including Rental House-A, whom I trust implicitly. That is a character issue that bothers me. I would like you to consider this ... given the same circumstances, what would you do if you were me? Be honest now with yourself. I and others don't see how any reasonable person can expect to be paid in full with these repairs looming. Think this through, talk to Rental House-D and then give me a call and let me know what you have decided. We can settle this and continue working together with no regrets. Sincerely,  DP & Exec. Producer I tell him and clearly state that this is no way to run a business by letting people you hire take the risk of you doing business. He tells me that he will pay me, but never use me again... ?FINE!? just give me my money. Well, those were empty words that crap about me not showing any remorse. Not to mention I called Rental House-A as soon as I read that part about blaming them. I?ve know them for over 10 years and was only trying to figure out what the cause could have been. Another email titled: Good News Dear Alfeo, I will be able to reduce your pay for the  shoot to pay for the camera repairs and extra camera rental by only $1500 instead of the $3,400 I had talked about earlier. I have spoken to my insurance agent today and they will file a claim. Apparently there would be no increase in my premium, so that enables me to do this. As soon as I get the call from the insurance company and make the formal claim, I will be able to send you a check minus the $1,500 deductible that I must pay for this claim pending official confirmation and acceptance of this claim. The insurance company may or may not call you to discuss all of this. Sincerely,  DP & Exec. Producer Hell, I?m only making $3,600 on the whole thing... So, I had to now take more of a legal approach and send out a final demand and a warning about usage. Copyrights stay with the author until the agreement is fulfilled. Company-B, C and D also got a registered mailing with a notice of copyrighted materials may be in use and they must not use in any form or manor until Company-A fulfills their agreement. :) Guess how was calling me the very next day... with my check. What say ye, was I wrong and should I assume the RISK of his company to do business?

I had a veteran director ease over to me and offer to throw a couple of ball busters on his shoulders to remind him that I've got the camera up.