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  2. New/aspiring operator looking for practical help

    in Steadi-Newbies

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    Hi,

     

    I know this forum is designed for advice and guideance amoungst other things and not so much personal pleas for work, but I am desperately looking for a relatively experienced steadicam operator to allow me to come and shadow/assist/practice with.

     

    I've just completed the Optex workshop last week (which was fantastic) and now want to get on and practice. However, I am struggling to find any operators in my area that I can contact. I live in Newbury in West Berkshire, so therefore I'm looking around the South/South East and up to and including London maybe.

     

    If anyone has ANY ideas please let me know because before I go out buying kit (new or used) or even just hiring, I want to get more practical experience.

     

    Cheers

     

    Mark Sayers

     

    Hi Mark,

     

    Tell me what do you think of this video. Is it steady? My camera is JVC GY-DV5000, with lense and battery weighs around 7kg.

     

    It took me around four months, around one hour per day to get that level.

     

    My exercise video

     

    divx format(You may need to get free divx decoder from www.divx.com)

    file size around 50mb

    http://www.salenz.com/movie/88.avi

     

    I look forward to your comments.

     

    Regards

    Leigh

  6. How do you buy your first rig?

    in Steadi-Newbies

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    Hi Paul,

     

    Someone said that operating Steadicam needs years of practise and the skill is not easily learned. It is not just simply pay the money and buy the rig and shooting perfect steady footage tomorrow. Why are you worried that some inexperienced guy from your neighbour dragging your business? :D

     

    Regards

    Leigh

  12. Walking towards cross

    in Steadi-Newbies

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    Leigh--

     

    Go to the Panavision New Zealand website to find a nice calculator to convert relative focal lengths between formats.

     

    http://www.panavision.co.nz/main/kbase/ref...lenseqvform.asp

     

    On your DV5000, if you can keep the cross in the middle at around 50mm then you're doing quite well.  You'll want to practice walking forward and backwards and Don Juan (body facing away from subject with the camera facing back).  The next exercise is to follow moving objects.  Time to terrorize your dog!

     

    If you ever get to the point where you can keep that cross stable at 128mm, congratulations--you've just become a Fisher dolly!

     

    Dear Mitch,

     

    Thanks for the link.

     

    Is the following parameter right for that link?

     

    First Format: Video 1/2" TV 4:3 4:3 CCD Sensor 6.4x4.8mm

    Format: Panavision Std 35mm Widscreen 1.85 Projected 0.825x0.446"

    Choose Dimension to use in the Calculation: Diagonal

    Enter the Starting focal length for the Left Column:6.4

    Enter the Increments to list in the Left Column:2

    Enter the Highest focal length for the Left Column:128

     

    Do you know what formula the website use to get that table?

     

    Thanks

     

    Regards

    Leigh

  14. Walking towards cross

    in Steadi-Newbies

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    Hello everyone,

     

    I set a target which is a window and the distance from the camera to the window is around 20 to 30 meters. I set my fujinon lense focal length to be 128mm. I got a cross on my lcd screen which is in the center of the screen. I walk towards the window and I saw the image displayed on the screen turn left and right and is very hard to center on the window. May I ask in this situation what is an acceptable ship away distance? Less than 50cm left or right of the window? The ideal situation is always in the center of the window of course.

     

    TIA

    Leigh

  16. My new GS400

    in Steadi-Newbies

    Posted

    Dear Nikk,

     

    Thanks for the suggestion.

     

    I only has around two or three months experience using the stablizer. I just touched my video camera since Apr, 2004. It is quite challenge to be a professional cameraman and I love challenge. I have around ten years professional software development experience. 8 ) And I am a software engineer.

     

    Regards

    Leigh

  18. Music Video to Enjoy

    in Operating

    Posted

    Dear Kareem,

     

    Nice work.

     

    You mentioned about "a lot of green paint", do you mean the video use green screen technology? Was the background texture composed later by two different video? How did you do the lightting? I thought that it is very hard to do lighting by green screen with steadicam.

     

    TIA

     

    Regards

    Leigh

  22. Work hours

    in Steadi-Newbies

    Posted

    Hello everyone,

     

    I just browse the following website.

     

    http://www.steadicam-ops.com/database/soaL...rdID=New%20York

     

    Can anyone tell me why rate is based on 10hr a day. I thought normal working hours is 8 hours a day, five days a week. Do you have to work 10 hour full? What about lunch time and coffe break etc? Will it cover balance the rig time and prepare the rig time? I think that I can't hold 20kg for 10 hours all the time. 8 (

     

    Just curious.

     

    Thank you for your time to read my message and I look forward to hearing from you.

     

    TIA

    Leigh

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