Karsten Jaeger

Hello, i have two brand new Baer-Bel Sony VCT-14 style Steadicam Dovetails for sale. When working with Broadcast-Style Cameras or Camera-Rigs which will work with Sony VCT-14 (or similar) plates, you can put the camera directly on that dovetail for your topstage. Saving weight, lower camera height and more rigid connection! (some third party rigs may not be compatibel. make sure you have a 1/4" or 3/8" thread in the v shaped mounting part in the front) It will fit Sachtler/Arri Artemis Topstages. I think PRO is the same size. Not sure about Tiffen and XCS. They come with 2 different size 15mm rods for your focus motor, which can be mounted to the front noses of the dovetail plate itself. asking for 300€ + shipping (when buyer is from EU without a valid VAT-ID or from germany, 19% VAT will be added) cheers Karsten

2nd generation with improved fanless receivers and battery in TX for hotswapping. (TX as RX are smaller than the actual 300 series) the kit includes: 1x TX 2x RX 1x Power Tap Cable 1x Power Supply 1x Case (with one broken lock but is covered by the pelicase lifetime warranty) 2.000 € located in germany

selling a Generation 1.5 Teradek Bolt Pro SDI Set. Latest Firmware, working properly. The transmitter has the internal battery which the lates bolt generation is missing. Very useful in terms of battery change or power problem solving. On top it is much smaller and lighter which is the same for the receivers, which are the improved gen1 version with passive cooling (no fan). Set includes: 1x TX 2x RX 1x PowerTap Cable 1x Power Suply 1x Hardcase Located in germany. 1850 Euro +shipping

selling a Teradek Cube with OLED Display. Great for getting the crew or clients away from any monitors. U can use any android or ios device for catching the stream via wifi. Comes with: 1x Teradek Cube HDMI Encoder (with internal battery!) 2x Antennas located in germany 800 Euro OBO + shipping

selling a Generation 1 Teradek Bolt Pro SDI Set. Latest Firmware, working properly. The transmitter has the internal battery which the lates bolt generation is missing. Very useful in terms of battery change or power problem solving. Set includes: 1x TX 1x RX 1x PowerTap Cable 1x Power Suply Located in germany. 1300 Euro OBO +shipping

pricedrop to 2.000 Euro = 2222 USD (on 2015/08/16) + shipping no brainer :)

pricedrop to 2500 Euro (at the moment just 2724 USD) + shipping and here we have this gimbal easyli mounted to a manfrotto head with the manfrotto style dovetail which it has for mounting to the handlebar: ah no sorry. this was a magliner with a loose wheel in the same car. ..here we go:

SOLD

price reduced to 2500 € + shipping. That's just about 2750 USD at the moment! very unique gimbal design as it is just one arm per axis. you can fit alsmost every camera into the frame. I just had the FS7 on it, without conterweights or modifications. U even can use the original LCD Display of the camera for operating monitor! i just found this pic from a few weeks ago. packing size comparison between DJI Ronin, the Newton and a Freefly Movi M10 style frame :)

price reduced to 3000€ + Shipping (at the current exchange rate it is just about 3300 USD ;)

oldschool ! :)

hi, i would like to sell my Betz Tools Stick Zoom Controler, which is specialy made for steadicam gimbal handles by Betz Tools, germany. http://www.betz-tools.com/en/stick.php new 800 euro without cables, asking for 500 Euro with high flex Angenieux and Canon/Fujinon Hirose Cables. like new Karsten

Selling my Swedish Chameleon Newton Gimbal with 32bit Board. The Newton has some big advantages compared to other gimbals like one-arm design (no problems with swaping medias or batteries) very huge variety of possible camera sizes (F5 or FS700 is no problem at all, where other gimbals are waaaay to short), Manfrotto style dovetails (you can take out the camera via quick release of the newton and place it on any manfrotto base or put the newton on a manfrotto tripod/quick release with the manfrotto style dovetail shape of the pan motor) and triming via screws instead of freestyle sliding on rods. no limits in rotation. good for on-steadicam mounting. used, but in excellent condition. it comes with hardcase, handles, 2 batteries, dovetails and camera screws. new 5.000 Euro asking for 3500 Euro + shipping i will post some more pics later. Karsten

Hi Stuart, i have a Betz Stick i would sell. are u interested? cheers Karsten

i think the better boomrange is a big advantage of the G50x. While you can work around seeing footsteps via good operating you cant ad the few inches in boomrange if you realy need to. actualy i have footstep problems with slow movements. I had it with my old Sachtler Artemis arm and with my Tiffen G50 (performance upgraded) arm. I never tried a Pro arm (besides a quick hands-on before i started my operating career, so i couldn't estimate pros and cons) but to be honest i hope that i will get rid of that problem by continously improving my skill rather than buying a Pro. I realy like the opportunity to tweak arm settings discrete while going back to one, the additional boom range and the lightweight and compact form factor. The clearance above your upper leg is great when doing awkward operating positions (which just happens...) while having your socketblock at the lowest position. The weightrange is perfect for me and the industry/movies i am working in. Arri Alexa, Red Epic everything is fitting perfectly in the range. I even had the oldfashioned Arri D-21 on the sled, i have no idea what it's weight was, but it certainly was way over my feel-good weight while the G50 wasn't bothering. The bottom line is, i love the great flexibility of the G50(x) while (obviously) having the problem of a higher friction/footprints. Anyway. Back to the topic. Does anybody know if the weightrange of the Atlas arm is realy ending at 45lbs? I am worried about the missing 5lbs to the G50x (as i think i sometimes need exactly these 5lbs). If it would match (inofficial) the G50 range i definitely would give the Atlas arm a try.

Hi Frederic, your last post is almost 1 year old. when i check your website now it seems that you upgraded to the Titan arm in the meanwhile. is that right? did you change your mind? if yes, why? thinking about switching to the Atlas arm at the moment. ...just curious about your descision... Karsten

Hi Mike, thank you for the new video, that's looking very promising! Are there Demounits available in germany? When do you expect to ship in larger quantities?

Hey Richard, could you please upload the picture again? That's just the link to your local machine.. I suggest using the 'attach files' function when you click on 'more reply options'. thanks! Karsten

Alan, i tried to be as political correct as i could be. That's why i even updated my signature with the new information that i am cooperating with Rebotnix before i wrote that post where i also pointed it out, just to be as honest as possible and to avoid any whispering about it. My post in this topic was no attempt to hijack the topic or to promote other products (what i clearly didn't do) i just recognized that there was something wrong with that demo video and that's what this post was all about. It was not courteous it was a logical reaction by what i realized and it was completely on-topic ...much more than your post above about hijacking. I will shoot more concerts on 35mm digital next season without rehearsals. We figured out that it can be a good option to have the focus puller stationary at a monitor with eyecontant to the operator rather than running around with you (when shooting at f/2.8) in a crowded space. I usualy use the Bolt for it but it's range is critical. That's why i am interested in a no-latency device with SDI input and a longer range. When somebody is noticing that there is a ciritcal misstake in an advertisement. It is absolutely ok to pinpoint that. I think everbody will agree with that. Mike has been nice working that out and they will do another video with a clearer measurement. So everything is just fine. Karsten

Hi Mike, Let's first come to your most important point, comparing with Teradek and Paralinx products which are not officialy released yet. I am very sorry, it is not my intention to discredit other products. I just tried to name differences. In that case (coming to reconnect times, stability and range) we just named principle differences comparing the nature of compressed with uncompressed technlogy by taking the facts which you offer from your announcement of the Bolt 2000. (i come to that matter later again) We know these problems from 8 years of experience Rebotnix and its partners has made in wireless transmission. 5GHZ is interesting cause of its worldwide license free use, but it is terrbile when not having line of sight. That's why most COFDM / DVBT systems are working at another frequency while costing more than 40k :) We are going to change this. In the first demovideo (shown above) it was a simple 5GHZ line-of-sight demo, but even there it is cuting edge. It's also not the frequency that counts here, it's the scheme how we adjust the RF-Path in a 3 Mimo system in combination with the feedback and control of the encoder module. It is in the nature of the 5GHZ band to need line of sight. Additionaly we worked out a way to use different frequcies which work better through obstacles while saving the ability to multicast on tablets/computers at the same time. (Demovideo coming soon) I think all this is going far beyond what users (like me) usualy need to understand. In the end it is all just about real world performance and what the user for his specific situation is demanding. To be clear, we are not saying that the RB-2 is the better Bolt 2000 or something. Both systems (compressed/uncompressed) are unique and have their advantages and disadvantages. That's where we come to: The RB-2 is using h.264 @ base or main profile. H.264 is not H.264, especially the motion vector that we developed to detect the motion in a single (one pass) encoding is essential to ensure that the compression looks outstanding. Rebotnix has years of experience in professional streaming technology, that's where are coming in the advanced technologies. The encoding profile base or main is useless if you dont have the right motion vector with an perfect frame lookhead. We put massive CPU and DSP power in the RB-2. As colorsampling we also use 4:2:2 which makes this device unique, because many people are demanding it. (in my personal opinion 4:2:0 would completely sufficient, but that's a whole other story ;) ) At the RB-2 we have 40ms encoding latency, which is nothing compared to other existing products. We need that low latency for getting a lot of more range to adjust the buffer and compression rate on the fly and in realtime without having a framedrop. -that's impossible with uncompressed transmission :) Our RB-1, which is another device, optimized for UAV, has a latency of just 10ms. We know that there is no other h.264 encoder which is able to do it. -and we are aware of legal limitations. That's why the RB-1 does not go over 25mW of output power, because this is not allowed within the EU airspace, while achiving 1500 feet of range. This is another advantage of compressed technology. (low output power + high range) You are absolutely right that latency is higher than uncompressed technology, but uncompressed often is not meaning 1:1 (like you would pull a SDI cable), as we figured out. We saw a lot of quality decreasing from different manufacturers chipsets (that promised to be uncompressed) when increasing the range. It is all about what you need. We learned when it is coming to long range application, it's not the best way to 'overload' the airspace with gigabit by gigabit, because then you are loosing a lot of flexibility to react on changing circumstances. It's much more useful to keep the bandwidth low. and this does not necesarily means that you are loosing quality, these days there are a lot of clever ways to get the best out of both worlds. The only real noticeable difference is the latency as you have said. Again, this is just about what you need for your specific application. When you need a very long range while having maximum stability and quality (eg for broadcasting) and you can live with a delay of aproximately 1 frame (at 25fps) then compressed is the way to go. And when we talk about compression, we mean the top end of compression where you just barely can notice it. I did not state that the RB-2 will have 40ms latency via satelite. 40ms is just the RB-2 latency. Of course a satelite link will add latency. Regarding satelite uplink in gerneral: When you want to live-stream in a crowded space (like a concert or something else) the cless of the mobile provider are complletely full. Here we can offer a great sat-upload link interface for our RB-2, including a very in-expensive rebotnix satelite service in a two way channel, so you dont need terestric internet. We are working on this with eutelsat. This service is currently working in europe (for the upload) and from europe to USA and asia we offer Amazon service or Level(3).com streaming. That's another handy advantage of compressed technology like we are utilizing in the RB-2. It is very versatile and going far beyond simple camera to receiver monitoring. Yes. We have found partner in the industry to creat exclusive antenna components for us. All of our radios have an FCC ID of course. Not realy. That both products are utilizing the same principle (compression) does not mean that it are similar products. We are sure that the RB-2 is going far beyond the cube when it comes to quality, latency, link stability and versatility. (that's why it is more expensive of course. We won't deny that) But let's do not go deeper in the comparision as i am sure both products have there specific purpose at their price-range. I am sorry that this post is exceeding the usual amount of info a little bit. Again, i just tried to compare compressed with uncompressed technology. I would like to delete any reference to other companies unreleased products in the post above, as u were right to complain about this. Unfortunately i cant edit the post anymore.

Hi Mike, thanks for working that out. It was just strange to see a clearly wrong distance measurement in that demovideo. Never mind, i am looking forward to see the full 2000ft range. Will it downscale the quality with the distance, like other long range uncompressed systems do? as i said, i realy love the Bolt. I basicly use it on every shoot, Steadicam or handheld/tripod operating, just to avoid cable clutter and save time when moving on. Seeing that without quality loss on longer ranges would be realy nice.

actually i forgot a realy nice, kind of soft-skill, feature. The RB-2 devices are fraud-protected. The name of the customer will be branded together with the serial# into the firmware. Shown at each boot-up, you have the chance to call the displayed owner direclty when somebody got offered a second hand device. That way stolen gear is much clearer noticeable than just by a serial#. The branding can just be changed by Rebotnix, and of course, Rebotnix will contact the last known owner to check for a legal sale.

i heard too that there are big similarities but i am not sure about the connection between post and stage/lower junction box. You can give Curt from Sachtler a short call or mail. Usualy he is responding very quickly. http://www.artemis-hd.de/95.0.html

Hi Job, give us a call when you are near Lünen (which is not to far from Netherlands), there is always a hot coffee, the RB-2 and many other fancy stuff waiting for your at the Rebotnix Headquarter. At the moment we ran out of stock but i ensured that we will ready up a demounit with the next batch. Karsten

Hi Alan, i needed to wait for detailed tech-info from the Rebotnix software-geek as i dont know all the background stuff, but here we go. There are some major differences. 1) on the RB-2 we put range first. At Rebotnix we define long-range at a distance from 500 meters (1600 feet) to 3 kilometers (1.8 miles). Beyond that distance we are transmitting the Videostram via satelite Uplink or LTE, which is also possible with the RB-2. (when transmitting uncompressed this is not possible without processing the signal a second time). With the standard antennas (3x 5dbi) the RB-2 is stable up to 900 meters in line of sight. With our Rebotnix Patch antennas we can transmit over much longer distances. Line-Of-Sight is very crucial at Systems like the Ikan, Bolt 2000 or also our RB-2. (this is because of the used 5GHZ frequency) As i am working in the field with wireless video systems, we are aware of the problems regarding line of sight as this is not always possible in reality. We are currently working on solutions for that problem. But in the meanwhile it is always good to choose a system with the longest available range at line-of-sight. It is possible that you won't achive the maximum 900 meters with the RB-2 in reality but you can be sure that it will transmit about 50% longer in the same situation than a system that has just (about) the half line-of-sight range (like the Bolt2000) or even 6 times longer than the Ikan IKW1-A which has just 150meter line-of-sight. (by taking the range information from the fact sheets of the individual products) So you have a much more stable and longer range connection with the RB-2 than the Ikan. 2) the Ikan device is just unicast. the RB-2 is multicast 3) you can combine omni and patch antennas at the RB-2. in a long-range situation is the challenge of line-of-sight much worse than in short-range applications. Due to the fact that the RB-2 utilizes highly optimized RF-Path and algorythms, the RB-2 is capable to adapt the system to changing frequency situation while keeping a very low buffer-time. With that feature the RB-2 will much faster re-connect than other systems like the Ikan which have just 2 omni antennas or like uncompressed systems like the Bolt2000 or Paralinx Tomahawk. 4) the RB-2 is optimized for broadcast by having a IP-Stream which allows to get a UDP or TCP transport stream in mpegts. That is giving you the option to receive the stream via a pc or mac at a very low latency and forwarding it to a satelite or LTE uplink. (we will demonstrate that soon) Additionaly you can receive the stream in full 1080p with the Rebotnix App for Android Tablets without additional compression (you have, when just geting a parallel proxy stream). This is something the Ikan is not capable of, what we think is a highly useful feature. 5) the RB-2 can be extended by using repeaters for transmiting the videolink around corners, when walls are too thick. RB-2 repeaters will be very cost-effective and are going to be released in near future. 6) you can utilize the ethernet port on the receiver to onpass the stream via internet without having a CDN provider. This is very interesting for studio and broadcast aplication. (maybe less for steadicam operators..) 7) with the USB data channel and the RS-422 interface camera control is possible. (as this is not a common need we did not implemented and tested that yet. But the RB-2 has all tools to set up such a link, which we can do on request) 8) i am not sure if the Ikan has also a full duplex intercom link. their site isn't clear about it. -that's a real neat feature in long range application. You dont need to carry an aditional intercom system. In multi-cam situations you could connect the RB-2 receiver with an existing intercom system to other stationary operators/director to be fully connected if needed. 9) the RB-2 is offering SDI only at the moment. Most of our customers are using SDI only. And less connectors/boards on the device: less costs we can pass to our customers, less things which can get broken ;) if you realy need HDMI we recomend HDMI-SDI converter like from Blackmagic Design. (which are realy nice at a good price in my opinion) Again. We are not fully aware of the Ikan system. So i am not 100% sure if all here written differences the Ikan realy does not have.