Alexander Pauckner

Hi, I will be shooting a dokumentary in China. Because of finanziall issues I will not be able to bring my own rig. The producer wants me to use an "glidecam x-20". I haven`t used this rig before, but it doesn`t look very professional to me. Especially the monitor "bracket" looks to be a problem,since I want to be able to switch quickly between high- and lowmode, and it does not seem to be possible to turn the Monitor quickly. Also the gimbal seems realy small, after normaly using a 1.8" gimbal. I would love to use a artemis EFP or a steadicam archer, but the total cameraweight will be about 5 kg, so a small rig would also do. I do not have any experience with lightweight rigs. Any suggestions what rig I should ask for, and where we could order it? We will be shooting near Bejing. , Thanks, Alex

Thank you for your advice. Sadly the operators in my area aren`t very talkative, but with your comments and other topic I found on this forum I have put together this formular. Payment for Cameraoperator x 1,25 + price of your equipment x 0,02 = payment for steadycamoperator + rental for equipment = total payment Does this seem about right to you?

Hello, I need some help in figuring out what payment to ask for as a steadycamoperator. Where can I find some guidelines? Of course there are differences in what kind of job, commercials, cinema, tv-movie or tv-show. Additionally it of course makes a difference in what country you are working, what kind of rig you own, how good you are and what is expected at the job. Speciffics are of course almost impossible, but any guidelines would be a great help. At the moment I am about to work for a German TV Show, with the Arri Alexa, and I am really not sure how much to ask for. I did some TV-show pilots and a lot of student-movies, musik-videos and the like, but I am not sure if the money I got was reasonable. I know that nobody likes to talk numbers, but I heard professional veteran operators complain about the price dumping of the new generation, and i really don`t want to be a part fo that problem. Any help would be appreciatet greatly.