Jarrett Morgan

I actually was able to take a look at a friend's actioncam yesterday. Although I do not own a nice rig myself, I have quite a bit of experience with rigs as an AC and as a lurker on the forums. My take was this: It looks like it could do the job, but doesn't seem nearly as refined as any of the Steadicam/PRO/MK-V products. for instance, there are no connectors on the top and bottom, merely a huge post to drop wires through... The arm seemed to be fairly nice, though it bottomed out very hard. action-wise it seemed nice. the bottom of the sled is based around just 19mm rods and everything slides on there. I can see it being a fairly nice rig with some modifications, but, if I were to buy new at that price range, I wouldn't even consider it.

Good to know! Thanks!

The Briteview HD Air Sync, the one that has been discussed quite a bit in another one of the threads. I think that all of them use a similar (if not the same) wireless chip.

I just recently bought a Decimator from Charles Papert, and I'll be testing that with the HDMI transmitter on various cameras. Hopefully, I'll be able to use this transmitter with more formats now. hopefully so. I used mine all day this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and I never lost signal. The director was really happy with it.

I'm going to try using it with a Decimator 2, and see if that will make things like the Epic work with it. From what I have seen, it should work perfectly as long as your output to the Decimator is p or i, since (as far as I know) the decimator passes through the setting of the input signal. I have used the system with a decimator 2 with an EX1 SDI out and it worked perfectly. I know that the option isn't in the dip-switches for the decimator, but is it in the USB-based UI?

looks really interesting. I tried to do a similar thing with the director's monitor with the Brite View system that has been discussed here, but ran into issues as the camera was outputting a PSF signal, which neither the transmitter nor monitor liked.... Any thoughts on that? I have done a bit of research and it seems that HDMI in general does not like PSF.

I think the Alexa is incredibly popular for good reason. The fact that people have continued to shoot on it even with the advent of the Epic is very telling. The Alexa took the place of the Red One (essentially, I know it is more complex than that), and I am sure that RED and RED enthusiasts were hoping that the Epic would take over the Alexa. Since that hasn't happened, I think the Alexa is here to stay (or at least versions of it eventually). The last commercial I was on chose to shoot on Alexa even though it was high speed (120fps vs Epic's 300 fps). After seeing the footage, the DP and Director are sold.