Thomas English

point taken. Any granada gig s, everyone should do as Stephen did, adventually they will get tired of asking for favours from the camera houses and go back on the decision made by a stuffy accountant turned executive. Where the hell is Bectu? Thomas

awseome! It s examples like that that show just how versatile the AR is. I think the scope and options offered by this kit are going to be far wider than the intended "going to low mode to high mode in one shot" From what I have seen of it working it just works... it s like it s 100% mechanical the response is so fast, like it s hardwired to the level.... it s weird Weird and amazing... A perfect technological response and innovation to our cameras losing weight and size. I want one, all I need is for santa to win the lottery or for me to get lucky with some hugely rich old lady

the problem I already have with my chroizel tilt head that fits onto the top of my sled (under my 3a topstage) is its heavy (600g) and increases by a few inches the distance from the gimble. These few inches are non adjustable. thus it increases double that distance on to the bottom of my sled since my gimble is always reaching the topstage/tilthead . I think a pop in tilt head would be worse on the above counts. I am not saying there is not an elegant solution to this.

is the image panning from left to right or is the whole sled swinging like a pendulum. Try having a 5 second drop time? see how that changes things. Maybe even try it neutrally balanced. Play around with that, If the whole sled is swining like a pendulum this could be the solution. And try what rob says

The Wolf NTSC reciever package is looking attractive to me right now. All of a sudden I am needing an NTSC radio setup because of these downconverters only giving NTSC signals at 23.97fps and 60fps etc. Never a problem on 2.4ghz . This is a good solution with sharkfin at a cool price. Thanks to you all! Thomas

when I had my DV rig... hollywood lite I regularly used the lanc controlled varizoom unit to pull my own focus. Dodgy but ti works. The newer ones have an autofocus button. It s best to know your depth of fields in various lights and "snap" the autofocus quickly when you know your frame will give you the distants u need.

I find nitrous oxide works best.

the first time I tried a rig on I got tired within a couple of minutes!.... perfectly normal....

so many good reasons to change over to Vmount if these power cube batteries are good, - Use the hire firm batteries instead of trashing your own on tv jobs - Have a variety of different sized vmounts for different weight setup cameras - vmounts are cheaper due to volume and there are insanely cheap knock off batteries made - firm fitting I guess you could get away with only having 2 power cubes on 435 jobs? Is it cool to run the camera on one powercube and one regular vlock?

Do you think the 416 will replace the sr3 the way the sr3 replaced the sr2 or do you think its a different camera for different applications?

dude, I am planning on being in shanghai possibly with my rig this winter. You get me some jobs and translate and Ill give you a fat cut of my rate, along the way Ill teach you all my bad habits. I am not a master or qualified to teach but people keep booking me so I can t be that bad.

I often as whether "you want me to take corners like a car or a motorbike?" direcors sometimes really want that dynamic of leaning into a corner. And it can look pretty cool but I rather call it fly e . "Do you want me to enter a corner and turn like in Doom or do you want me to turn the corner like a car" is another one.... I dunno, I certainly appreciate that requesting a handheld shot off steadicam is laziness on the part of someone and just plain silly. I always suggest going handheld for handheld. Steadicaming quite a lot, I have grown very fond of the handheld aesthetic. Sometimes I think they are the artist and we are some kind of loudspeaker. I often think I get the "floaty" feeling they are after by neutrally balancing the gimble and letting it ... well float about more, They seem to love it and since they are paying me, I am not their art teacher telling them how to make a video. The other thing with floaty is varying the gimble height very smoothly. They seem to like that too. Getting floaty right is quite tricky and requires zen, having done a few of them MTV Cribbs where they speed floaty right up, some operators vary better than others through the MTV CRIBBS floaty aesthetic.

dude, welcome to the forum. It is the forum rules to have the real name and not an "internet" name like sharkman otherwise nobody will answere. It is a small word the world of steadicam and we like to know who is talking. I don t believe there is a downloadable internet tutorial available yet although someone may stand to correct me. Shanghai looks wicked! although I have not been, how is the film bussines doing there? It is predicted to grow massively at the expense of hong kong? is this true? Thomas

due to the urban clandestine nature of my camping I have nt yet posted a picture of the beast on the interweb. Once I fully steadicam the inside of the new one Ill pop a photo on. In the mean time, turn up to most festivals this year and once you have found me upside down in the ditch and pulled me out ill show the van!

Cheers Fred, I appreciate the importance of getting properly made cables from the likes as yourself because they simply dont go wrong. Anyhow, the conclusion, I managed to run the M-motor and Bartech (and PRO35 from the lens power) off the AB out (top of camera) on the DSR450 The thing is a bleeding computer! I crashed it! no joke... it crashed! had to cold restart it by taking the batteries off!!!!!! Anyhow, Bartech etc worked fine when running the camera from Nicads, with just one (extendable IDX) it would blow the instantly reseting IDX battery fuse when tuning the motor, With 2 IDX s on the camera it only occasionally blew one of the battery fuses. I was Dp ing/ steadicaming hence I wanted everything supersimple for the day. Promo for Juliet Lewis of all people. Sound Thomas

Shoe s are such a funny one for me. I searched tirelessly for the ideal steadicam shoe and eventually found in a basketball/nike shop what I thought was ideal. High top, trainer type sole and support, soft rubber and treads (often missing in basketball etc shoes). Put them on and at the end of the first day my feet where torn to shreds. I keep buying new shoes and still keep reverting back to my new balances (similar to Erics but I bought them in thailand, i think they are an asia only model). They are getting tatty now but I am simply not comfortable in anything else. I had an odd one on a shoot in Clevely (very very steep cobbled streets... and it was raining) all the production team where wearing marrells, the trainer type super tread ones that are quite fashionable and they where skating all over the wet stone. I was wearing some regular hiking boots and was rock solid. I think there is something about the rubber maybe?

I am interested in a cart, dependant on price and how much it can fold down/cases come out so it can fit in my mobile cameratruck/campervan/lovemachine. Presently just have a Nalpack

really appreciate that jason, Managed to get one off axis films london for 25 quid. Wicked Thomas

Can I run a Bartech and an M type motor from the AB 12v power source on a dsr450 (same as 570). I know there is a problem running it off onboard lithium power an sr3 but an sr3 uses more power when its turning over. Who can sell me an AB to 4pinxlr cable in a hurry ? and not charge me 200 dollars thanks thomas

promo s are about to take a real upsurge with the ipod download thang. for the first time labels are going to be able to pull a profit on promo s rather than them being a right off.

I never bring it up that it may chew..... I mean ... film chews and jams sometimes, nowt you can do about it. I just seem to have noticed that on the 435 it chews just a little more often when upside down but I still upside down it. Hardly ever ever have a chew/jam on an sr2/sr3 upside down or right way up and I use 'em pretty much constantly. Them cameras are bullet proof. Love 'em! sr2 is still the best underwater camera by my reckoning... bullet proof! Whats the fastest you can get into upside down LCD low mode on an sr3... I reckon I've got an emergency time of 20 seconds now.... comes in useful in that last light situation when the sun goes down. .................. sticking wet spagetti up a cats arse ................... damn...................

Brad, you are also rotating the monitor around its axis to get a clearer view of it and so needing to flip it. I sometimes do upside down low mode both ways. If in a hurry I simply flip the rig and tilt the monitor in a little. since the image is upside down on an upside down monitor it looks to me the right way up. Othertimes with more time I lenghen the whole centrepost, reposition my monitor on the lower (now upper) post and rotate it around so the monitor is above its own bracket. Then I need to flip the X and the Y on my monitor. Is it just me or does the 435 chew up the film more frequently when upside down?

wake up with the producer on the second day of a feature

I am keen on my transvideo ultrabright. Admitidly... when I started in steadicam all I could afford was a panasonic 7in and I have never really operated on a day to day basis with an 11,000v green screen. The days I have used an ultra rig I have found it to be cool but I suppose I need to hammer a green screen for ages to learn to hate the little things on an LCD. In response to low light shooting and seeing framing. I find in low light conditions.. shooting at 500t pretty much if my modern video tap to transvideo is looking dark well it ain t really on the neg. But this is a rubbish way of looking at it. I am happy with my transvideo ultrabrite.

fink promo Dunno if your interested but here is a promo I shot a little while ago.