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New Los Angeles/Orange County Operator
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Chris Loh's topic in Steadi-Newbies
What Jerry forgot to say is that they ONLY teach a Tiffen-centric course. Which is fine if you're going to limit yourself to Tiffens offerings -
Anton Bauer G Series batteries
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Alec Jarnagin SOC's topic in Batteries/Power
Had a long talk with the fine folks at AB including the product manager for the Dionic line at IBC. They understand our concern and are coming up with a solution which sounds like they are going to do a Steadicam specific run of "Old style" Dionics every year. In the mean time they do have stock of "Our" style batteries. -
Dear Atlanta operators
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Alfeo Dixon SOC's topic in General Discussion
Alan, that's incorrect about the independent contractor status. First off it's a 1099 job you are by definition an Independent contractor. Secondly according to the IRS we are Independent Contractors as operators because we "Materially participate in the creation of art". IE even though the shot is described to us we put our interpretation on it -
I've seen this movie before..... Jeffery is trying to advertise without advertising. Jeffery, what chipsets are you using? Aminom, or crystal video?
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Maximum Inertia - are you a fan?
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Emilio Schlappi 's topic in Operating
Just make sure that when using antlers you don't hit the actor with them.... Disclaimer, I don't use antlers and never have, I just know of a few instances of it happening and the operator being sacked -
The master series wasn't good when it came out you'd be better suited to spend your money elsewhere
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It's in the monitor, I've talked to mike about this. It drove us mad on my last show. We had to drill down I think five menus on the monitor and select 1080p in a menu relating to 1080i or p
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IBC preview, new products
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Jens Piotrowski SOC's topic in General Discussion
Saw the Maxima.... Pretty damn cool. Christian Betz and I have had some interesting conversations about it -
Autonomous framing and subject tracking
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Prasenjit Mukherjee's topic in 3D Steadicam
If operating was easy everyone would do it. -
Autonomous framing and subject tracking
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Prasenjit Mukherjee's topic in 3D Steadicam
That's what operators are for. Like they say Drum machines lack soul and so do Autonomous framing and subject tracking computers -
Tiffen has a really strange idea about "Modular" since it won't play with any of the other "Modular" rigs on the planet. And lets not forget the 1.56" center post was for "Increased rigidity" when they (Okay CP) adopted it for the Master series. The real reason was so that PRO owners couldn't use a CP Gimbal when they and I quote "Shopped in the valley"
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IBC preview, new products
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Jens Piotrowski SOC's topic in General Discussion
I'll let you all know my thoughts I'll be at Both IBC and Cinec -
How fast can you go to low mode?
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Janice Arthur's topic in General Discussion
So true Charles the LW was amazing, flip it rotate the monitor and spin the rig, you're done. that's it's. With proper prep the Alexa is like that. I guess that's the take away from this. PREP the gear and its easy it should be sub 2 mins, don't prep the gear and pay the price. Hell with a prepped package My first and I once took a Panavision Millennium from studio to steadicam in less than two mins.... The entire crew had the stopwatch on us on that one and that shot was used for four season in the titles -
How fast can you go to low mode?
Eric Fletcher S.O.C. replied to Janice Arthur's topic in General Discussion
SR3, Pro sled TB-6 monitor. It was less than 20 seconds. AD called "Lock it up" and then "rolling" I was back for "marker". That setup was ideal and why I like short posts you never needed to move the gimbal. Flip the camera flip the monitor throw on a Low mode bracket and you were good to go -
What did you achieve with using that over what a decent steadicam operator can do? I see no advantage for all the trouble and additional rig length (which is comedically long)
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