Marc R. Berger

LOL. Was this spot before or after the other one?

Thank you for your input and feature request. I know you´re all very good and experienced operators, so I can learning a lot from your opinions. I don´t have a long time experience in "Steadicamming" and not a lot with different monitors, but the service I experienced with Transvideo until now was so outstanding great!!! I would always go again with a Transvideo monitor, rainproof or not. I´m so tired about all this cheap made tools with its bad quality, popping up everywhere like mushrooms after a wet autumn day (Not meaning other monitors discussed here before). Service -and for sure build quality- becomes more and more important to me. Marc

Could I mount it on to 19mm rods with 100 spacing? Thanks, Marc

Thank you Jens for the pictures and infos. Is the Virtual Horizon 3 compatible with the Cine HD classic monitors, or only the Evolution´s?

Just saw this very exciting announcement at Transvideo. Could someone visiting IBC this year give a short review about their new products please? Thank you, Marc

I´ll second Frederic´s opinion about the Exo-I tried it and loved it- but there is another you could take a closer look too: the vests from actioncam. I have got the actioncam vest with my rig and I must say it´s as comfortable like the Exo vest. It´s more like a Klaasen, but a complete own design by actioncam and you can adjust it very fast to different body shapes. Maybe you should put your employer once in a LX and after that in a Exo or actioncam or Klaasen vest? Quite sure you´ll get your new vest after that without further health studies.

Hey Oyewusi, welcome. I´m new (8 month) to the steadicam world as well and I can only second Victor´s starting points. First a workshop! It saves you minimum 1 year of frustration with a own rig. Last year there were workshops in Zurich with Lukas Franz. Maybe they do them again, google is your friend for addresses and infos. I joined a silver workshop with Tiffen in Oxford. It was a great starting point. As manufacturer you´ll find a good one in Switzerland too: action products in Schönenwerd. Not far from Zurich. They have FANTASTIC Rigs for reasonable prices.I just recently bought one of their new Raptors rigs and I´m more then happy with the quality and the service. Just contact them, Daryl or Lea can give you a lot of informations. It is always good to have a Rig from a manufacturer/dealer with service nearby. Betz in Munich and Sachtler organise workshops too. Hope this helps a bit. Cheers, Marc

This helpes me a lot to find the 3 c.g.`s. And especially a great little tool to determine the side to side off of the monitor etc. Marc

Hi Robert, I don´t know which SBL you have, but I just spoke with transvideo and they assured me it´s possible to upgrade the actual SBL to eSBL. Thank you all for the input. I was also looking to all the other available possibilities and finally decided to go with the transvideo. I got a nearly new CineHD 6"SBL at a refurbished price which puts it right beside the tvlogic Jens mentioned. I think I´m nothing doing wrong with that and I can upgrade to eSBL within 2 days if I really need it (I´m living a six hours drive away from transvideo). Marc

Hi Jens, nice find thanks. Just compared the specs with the Cine6HD classic, and the biggest difference for me is the operating temperature, tvlogic 0°-, transvideo starts at -20°. I forgot to mention I´m working sometimes in -20° environments. Marc

Thanks to both of you. Your opinion and thoughts are very helpful. Yes, Robin considered it. I´m aware of all what´s involved. As a manufacturer I would also outfit the workshop with my rigs. But nobody tried to sell us something, it´s was not a kind of tupperware Party (Sorry, but I always get the impression a lot of people in this forum think like that about the Tiffen workshops. I would take every other workshop from somebody else as well and with a great pleasure, but they were none around. And after having joined a Tiffen workshop I would always go back to one of them as well). Anyway, I didn´t buy a Tiffen rig. I think they have incredible rigs, but the good ones are way to far for my wallet and also needs. I got a rig from action products. It´s a swiss manufacturer with great rigs a bit like the GPI pro rigs in the US, done with a incredible love to the detail and the craftsmanship of swiss engineering and machining, and very modular too. Coming back to the topic. Jens, I was looking to the Cinemonitor IIIA as well, but I would need a extra downconverter and cables and I arrive more at around 1800.- with this choice. I´ll sleep over it again. Marc

Thank you Jens, your advices are very much welcome. So you suggest to go straight away with esbl, okay, that makes sense. Do you think it´s the compensated horizon is something worth to invest so much more? Thanks Marc

Hi, I´m a longtime follower of this incredible helpful and interesting forum, but new as a active member. I started a couple of month ago with steadicam operating (Don´t be afraid I´m not bothering you at this point with a demo reel!) First I visited a Tiffen silver workshop with Robin Twaithes and Danny Hallett. This was a perfect starting point with the help and input of such great Instructors. Right now I´m building up my Rig and I´m having a hard time to decide which Monitor I should buy. Because I´m living in France and I don´t have enough money to buy cheap or not bullet proofed, I´m interested in a Transvideo Monitor. Transvideo gave me a very interesting quote for a CineHD 6" classic SBL or eSBL. What do you think about starting with the 6" SBL (I could upgrade later to the eSBL). Could anybody who owes this monitor share his experiences with it? And also maybe say some words about a right choice of today: Is the Classic serie still okay or is the Evolution the must have now? Or maybe the RainbowHD SBL? As I said before, if I´m investing money in monitor now, I would like to work a couple of years with it. I´m having a solution to practicing already. Thank you very much for your input, Marc

Thank you Frederic. Can´t wait to see the video you took.

I just tried it. This "flatfeet" walking is a very interesting approach...Thank you Alex, I´m going back to practicing. Marc

Hi Frederic, I´m new to this forum too. I´m reading it with a lot of interest since a long time, but I´m a member only since I started with steadicam myself. Thank you for your insides of this workshop. I would have loved to be able to join it, and was looking until the last moment to get a chance to do so. It would be great if you could share some thoughts and tips Larry and the other instructors gave you about extremely slow walks...and all the other good tips you want to keep in memory. :) Writing down is best to remember. Thank you! Marc

Wow! What a pleasure to watch this. Thanks for sharing this link. (Yes this is my first post... I could not resist) Marc