Erwin Landau

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Totally rebuild Cinema Products 3A arm for sale. (Work done last week). All moving parts replaced non moving parts refurbished and cleaned: - New Trunions, Trunion Studs, Cables, Adjustment Screws and Thrust bearings, as well as new Arm Covers and all around bumpers. - Gold Springs are only 2 years old and checked by Tiffen last week. Arm is rated at 59 pounds. Price: $7700.- Comes with custom Arm Bag and PRO Arm Post. Contact: Erwin 818-448-2639

Howard called me on that and I brought in my XCS Gimbal. We found that if you loss one side of the split bushing, on the knob clamp, it will fit nicely onto the gimbal without the need to loss the anti-slip plastic... and the plastic basically replaces the need for the bushing. Erwin

Saw it last week... Called and got someone on the phone that never heard of that unit... promised to call back with info... Nobody called back yet... Nobody picked up the last several times I tried to call... Left several messages... So far no answer... Not very promising start to a Customer/manufacturer relationship... Erwin

Also check: http://www.steadicamforum.com/forums/index...amp;#entry25779 For power and other Genesis info.

For some reason you have to log out ad then in again for it to take... I tried it several time and thought f**k it but then when I cam back it was changed... go figure. Computers... Erwin

Tom Yum Goong... (The Protector) Rob Van Gelder posted about it a while back... it's buried. But I'll attache it to it once I find it. Erwin

RSVP.... Oh man that is far: http://www.uclaconferencecenter.com/lacc/l...california.html Erwin

SOLD! Thank you.

Mee, mee, mee.... meemee, meeeeeeee! Mee. mee. Erwin

Okay... To much info... If you are charging a NiCad or a Hytron, it will work fine... if you have to charge Dionics... not so much. Are we clear now? Erwin

Dave, I used the regular video out (Yellow RCA) Looked nice on my TB-6. Was okay. I was able to frame. Also if you attach the special HD cable to view a direct HD feed from the Camera, the RCA plug is disabled... Erwin

And they did it again... Last week I did a music video with a 235 from Panavision again... I was hired after the Prep as they wanted to use the Technocrane but when I got available... (It's interesting how many times I lost a job to a Technocrane... today again a call they haven't decided... either the Techno or me... and I should put my self on hold...) Anyhow - Anamorphic C-Series and E-Series - and 435 SL-Cine mags.. panavision again didn't had them available... Some of the lenses had a 8 to 12 pound weight difference, between the 28mm and the 50mm I had to crank down or up all 4 springs (2 blacks, 2 blues) of my PRO arm. Actually the 28mm weight more then the Body and the loaded mag together... of course it had to be supported... and it balanced and flew like a lame duck... Fun with the 235... again I'll take a 435 any day over the little brother... Fly safe, Erwin PS: Was so crazy I forgot to make a picture... darn.

There is one... http://www.steadicamforum.com/forums/index...?showtopic=5330

For Sale: Hardly used and absolutely new looking... Anton Bauer XM-2004 four position expansion module. It attaches to your inter active 2000 charger and makes for instance, your 2702 into an eight position sequential charger. Great for overnight charging... Caution! It will only do you good if your main charger fulfills the following criteria: It has to be an "Inter Active" charger from the 2000 series like the 2701, 2702 or the 2722 or the like. It has to be equipped with a serial expansion port (which was discontinued about 2 years ago). If you have a brand new 2702, don't bother. If your older 2702 has been upgraded to the newest chip so that you can charge Dionics. It will develop bugs... and could just stop charging your additional batteries. The chip will some times not recognize the XM, etc. (That's the reason why I'm selling it, I have the old chip which comes free if you buy the XM and it works without a hitch). Asking: $550.- Plus Shipping and Handling. Sincerely, Erwin 818-448-2639 (I stole this pix from e-bay... just if you were wondering)

Truth hurts, doesn't it? Is that for ones a promise you actually will keep? Sincerely, Erwin

Hi Leslie, You did the first right step... you decided to take a workshop... I'm sure (at least I hope) that the Glidecam workshop is based on the same principles as all the steadicam workshops. But if you are really serious about making a carrier out of steadicam operating, I would suggest to get in contact and learn from people that have been working from day one on the noble instrument. I did my first workshop with Cinema Products in Malibu and have taken several more with GPI-PRO. The only down point I could see taking the Steadicam workshop over the Glidecam one would be, that you would realize how much more advanced the high end rigs are compared to Glidecam... and there is a reason for that... What was the last major Motion picture to be shot with a Gold? That means that your contacts with the Glidecam team would be some what limited... Taking one of the Steadicam workshops will introduce you to well known and renown operators with an average of 20 plus years of operating experience in the big league... And if you take any of the Tiffen workshops, the chance is very good that you will meet Garrett and learn from the man himself... what a treat and hell is he funny... and has stories... and new ideas... (First and last rule of film making... networking!) If you're in the US there are only a couple of workshops that I possibly could recommend in no particular order (I just feel that a week long boot camp like workshop makes more sense for beginners as the weekend ones are more to brush up and improve on learned basics): Any Tiffen or Tiffen sponsored Workshop like Malibu/Arrowhead or Peter Abraham's Flyer workshop etc. The SOA Rockport workshop The PRO workshop from GPI Just my 2 cents, check the archives about workshops, I don't believe that the Glidecam one is very high on anybodies list. It doesn't matter with which brand you will end up... but learn from the best! Hope that helped. Good Luck, Erwin

Here back in 2003: Lynn Nicholson Showing Howard Smith, How it's done right and properly... with the Alien. Look! The monitor and the camera are actually in sync and level! With the AR on the set of "House" in 2005... not so much...

Now we are talking... Thank you Job. Erwin

Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:49 PM From: Lynn Nicholson Topic: Re: Rolling, rolling, rawhide! Message: 12 of 16 Read 633 times SCF2002-Operating Listmanager wrote: > From: "Bob Wise" > > As someone who has been lucky enough to use Lynn's sled (or maybe I should say cursed as it is very difficult to go back to a sled that is in evolutionary terms akin to fishing with a club) he seems to have addressed all the needs of the operator as well as crossed his T's and dotted all the i's. > > The vistas a rig like this open up are really awesome on a creative and marketing level for the operator ...here is hoping someone will get smart and get it into production ASAP. > > I for one am still trying to talk Lynn into selling me the prototype! > > R.L.Wise SOC > ST Thomas USVI > > To reply: mailto:SCF2002-Operating.36451@forums.siteforums.com > To start a new topic: mailto:SCF2002-Operating@forums.siteforums.com > To login: http://forums.siteforums.com:80/~steadicam2002 Hello Everyone, Apparently, this is as good a time as any to publicly announce some of the details of our revolutionary camera stabilizer. The Alien (as we now call it) was conceived over 7 years ago, as an effort to eliminate two of the major shortcomings associated with standard Steadicam type devices: 1) limited continuous vertical lens travel, and 2) an unstable horizon. The Alien's present capabilities far exceed those imagined in the original vision. The Alien at least doubles continuous vertical lens travel when compared to a standard Steadicam type device, while simultaneously and automatically maintaining a level camera and monitor. Say good-bye forever to all low mode brackets, low mode conversions, gyro conversions, Antler conversions, and the production time and energy lost to these conversions. The Alien is physically compact and sync sound compatible. Further, the Alien provides the operator with selectable control of the camera roll axis, allowing variable speed camera rolls, Dutch angles, or re-calibration of camera level based on visual references in the shot. And for that rare moment when an unstable horizon is preferred, the Alien provides a defeat/lock button for imitating the prior art. All functions are available on-the-fly. The Alien may be positioned at any inclination to clear bushes, car hoods, tables, the operator's legs, etc., without affecting camera inclination. Neutral balance operation is possible and preferred, thus reducing inertial anomalies (headroom issues), and eliminating the need for motorized stages and the flexing associated with their implementation. From an operator's standpoint, the Alien is truly other-worldly (hence the name Alien). Its performance in 35+ mph winds is mystical--the horizon remains perfectly level, effortlessly. Finally, we are actively assisted by our rig, and we can focus all of our energy on the creative aspects of the shot. Novice operators who can frame, will be able to do acceptable shots the first time, while expert operators will take the new art to places heretofore unimaginable. The ability to shoot from high mode to low mode (and back) continuously has to be experienced to be believed. The Alien is the Holy Grail of stabilizers. That being said, nearly a million dollars worth of research and development has taken place in our garage over the last few years. Those of you who know us (Roxanne and I) and know about the Alien project, know that we have been trying to sell the project since December of 1997 (completion of the 1st POC prototype) to various potential manufacturing partners/licensees. The politics of such a sale has been disheartening, to say the least. We have shown the Alien prototypes in good faith to numerous companies (and individuals) in the film industry and also to companies in the aerospace arena. Even Garrett Brown has flown the Alien. We have been shocked to find out that NDAs, confidentiality/proprietary rights agreements, and even patents, while absolutely respected in aerospace, mean very little to some people/companies in our industry. Attempts have been made to steal the project. Proprietary information has been used or passed on, in direct violation of the agreements. Most companies and individuals, however, have been extremely supportive of the Alien and worthy of our trust. We thank those companies, and Greg, Larry, Jim, Liz, Nelson, Ron, Alfred, Bob, Dave and Dave for you integrity and support, and for keeping us informed of all that has transpired behind the scenes. In closing, we have a fully functional Alien prototype that is suitable for demos. Beta testing of the production version will start soon, when it is completed. Production will follow. I eagerly look forward to that day, since I am one of only a few operators on this planet who knows how frustrating it feels to go back to conventional Steadicam operating, or "fishing with a club" as Bob Wise mentioned... Best Regards, Lynn Nicholson

I was going through the Archives and thought that that topic would be of interest... ----------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thursday, September 18, 2003 01:23 PM From: Larry McConkey Topic: XCS Ultimate. Message: 3 of 11 Read 390 times An update on my Ultra... I had the new stiffer tilt arc installed on my sled this year and at the same time Tiffen adjusted the bearings in the X/Y stage. Along with my own mods to the tilt stage I now have a sled that I can run with without worries about vibration. This is the first time in years and it is a wonderful feeling. I now only have to use the mast stay rigging for very long post lengths and vehicle mount shots with gyros. It is possible to have all the adjustments the Ultra offers along with structural rigidity, but everything has to be perfect. On another somewhat unrelated note, after a quick call to GB, I tried beefing up my Tiffen arm for an IMAX shoot with rubber bands. Incredibly it worked very easily and very well. I got another 5-6 lbs of lift by stretching a couple of heavy duty rubber bands diagonally across both sides of each section of my arm. To do this, I simply screwed short (1/4") 4-40 bolts into the remaining internal threads of the appropriate trunnions. The arm's spring rate did change with position much more than normal, but this was not a problem with the extra inertia that the IMAX cameras offered. The film was a documentary about the brain and followed Tyler Hamilton in the Tour De France. An incredible experience and an incredible performance by Tyler who fell early on and suffered a double fracture of his collarbone, but continuued and finished 4th overall!! Larry ------------------------------------------- Date: Friday, October 03, 2003 03:08 PM From: Phil Rhodes Topic: XCS Ultimate. Message: 8 of 11 Read 325 times Hi, When you say "rubber bands," you really do mean... rubber... bands. Exactly how much extra did this get you? Phil ----------------------------------------------- Date: Saturday, October 04, 2003 08:18 AM From: Larry McConkey Topic: XCS Ultimate. Message: 9 of 11 Read 344 times Theoretically, at least, as much as you want - it just depends upon the strength and number of bands you add. I did not have any time to really work this out carefully... the day before going over, my equipment had already been shipped to France... I borrowed my brother's Master arm to see if I could come up with someway to do this and took over a kit of 8 4-40 bolts and a bag of various size rubber bands. As expected, when we added all the stuff on our wish list to the camera/steadicam (mattebox, video transmitter, Iris motor, on board video recorder, low mode bracketry) the arm shot straight down to the bottom. I would guess I was about 5-6 lbs too heavy. I quickly added 4 heavy bands to each side of each arm and this time the arm shot up to the top! I compromised on 2 bands in each of the four locations and "Voila". The arm had a little more lift than necessary with the arm adjustments all the way up. I cranked them down a couple of turns and stayed with this system for the rest of the job. My only other alternative would have been to strip all those wish list items but the documentary nature of this shoot begged for all the little tricks and conveniences. As I mentioned, the linearity of the arm's action was significantly deteriorated, i.e., it took more effort than I like to lift it up or push it down (no longer "iso-elastic" and it definitely sought the trimmed ride height more aggressively, but because the IMAX cameras are so massive, the extra inertia easily countered the tendency of the arm to interfere with the inertial stability and the results were magnificent! I will always carry this little kit with me from now on when I need a little boost. Total cost about $2.00 US. The idea came right from the man himself (GB) who threw it out to me as the obvious thing to do in this kind of situation - but he left it up to me to figure out how to attach the bands! I am thinking about a small mod to the trunnions that would allow better mechanical rigidity to this accessory as my own arm only offered a few threads to screw the bolts into. (A few times I knocked a couple of them out of their threads when carelessly handling the arm between shots). My brother's arm actually had plenty of threads (about 4) available, so there is some variation in trunnion mounting bolt lengths and all arms may not have the threads necessary to add these external bolts. ------------------------------------------ Date: Saturday, October 04, 2003 12:14 PM From: Dave Bittner Topic: Re: XCS Ultimate. Message: 10 of 11 Read 325 times I seem to remember something from the old Steadicam Letter about someone using medical tubing in the same way. ------------------------------------------

Hi Alex, Getting back to doing or not doing a workshop until you have the funds to buy a rig... I did my first workshop on borrowed money with no funding for a rig or any jobs in sight. I just wanted to learn about the steadicam as much as I could. I had spend years drooling over all the toys and to read and collect anything and everything there was to get... which was not very much in the 90-ties, only after I met a couple of operators, my "collection" on Steadicam memorabilia started to explode... as many started to get rid of stuff or were cleaning out there garages... (also got me started on little bits and pieces that were no longer used, I still have some of this equipment in my kit today). Anyhow, I was ready to start actually using the machine versus just watching it on pictures. I signed up with the absolute certainty to never own or operate one... ever. And I wanted it to count... I made hundreds of pictures during the workshop and tried to suck up as much information as I possibly could... I learned the basics to be able to actually balance and use the machine as well as met several operators that let me practice with there rigs after the workshop, let me come visit a set and who have become longtime friends... (some are still sorry they met me in the first place as I'm a big pain and I cost them a lot of money over the years... as they started listening to me about gear and such...) I know many operators that took the workshop years before having the funds to actually buy a rig, but it's like a drivers license, you never regret having done the drivers test, you can always jump into the car and take it for a drive... but as with driving you only get good at it if you do it on a regular basis! I took several workshops over the years and still am not to full of it to take more... you never stop learning and if you get the chance to practice with the best, you would be stupid to pass it on... there is always space for improvement. Trust me there is... Just my 2 cents, Erwin

Nice one Kareem... Wait there was one more yesterday... what happened? A picture from a workshop with all guys and a couple of model ones and twos and the Panaglide... who took it down??? Bring it back! Confused... Erwin