Thomas English

Is it as simple as removing what is there and popping the pin in?

Sorry Marc, That is not eccentric exercise with any real meaning. Unless done on the smith machine loaded up with 20% more than you can do 5RM eccentically its not going to help. It is probably best to do one leg at a time. The quad macine might be better because you can overload that properly and safely. For example my shoulder tendernitis. I can 5RM 55kg so I loaded the barbell with 65kg and push jerked it to overhead then lowered it down very very slowly and gently. When I had knee tendonitis I used the leg extension with both legs and let one let drop and lowered the weight down very slowly with the other leg and way way too much weight. Don't go get exercises off yoga instructors. Get a physiotherapist that works with Powerlifters or Weightlifters (Oly lifts). Good Luck!

Eccentric Loading for tendonitis. Google that. It seems to work well for me.

You had DB with 2inch extension and 2 anton bauers on the back and a Cinetronic? Sorry Rod for turning your sales into a thread but its probably good advertising anyway.

I feel wheels are for the magliner with docking bazooka and stand is for tight places where wheels would be no good. Still I've never tried wheels. The best stand in the business is the one modified and sold by Optical Support in London. Maybe someone can chime in as to the modifications but I think its absolutely awesome. I have that stand. Its around the £600 mark though which is a lot of money but to me its money very well spent.

Kapil is a cool guy

I agree with everything said in the above thread but I also think that half an inch is enough protection. It is tight but I think it is enough.

Are you genuinely saying that PRO and XCS changing bearing suppliers circa 2005 could have made enough of a difference to the coefficient of friction to have made a noticeable improvement of usability that made the gimbles previously inferior to MK-V Gimbles to now superior? I am going to stand by the fact that once a rig is fully loaded it would be PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to tell a pre 2005 to post 2005 bearing. Actually you could shove a load of thick oil in there and with a fully loaded rig you simply cannot tell! With an old 3a gimble ages ago I tried this. I tried three different thickness grades of oil. Sure one could tell immediately when free spinning the gimble with no sled but once loaded my experiment went completely out the window because I knew which version oil was in there. If I was honest with myself there was ZERO difference although my superstitious mind thought otherwise. Sure it is best to have the best combination in there but we humans are simply not sensitive enough to check on a nuanced 0.00001N force difference on a 25kg rig. Here our discussion is with the same oil, same gimble sleave and different bearings. The physics of the sled variables WAY outweigh any bearing friction variables probably by a factor of thousands let alone the fact you are trying to compare a 1.5in gimble to a 2in gimble. To any newbies out there I strongly recommend you ingnore this thread and focus your minds on making friends with DoP's, keep in touch with family you've not seen for a while and keeping your girlfriend/boyfriend happy as these will influence your operating a million times more. A DoP and Director will respect you for your love of film and framing a million times more than your knowledge of bearing superstition.

I love my MK-V gimbles (plural) and find they balance absolutely great in all directions at all drop times. I have tried other gimbles including the PRO and Tiffen ones and honestly they feel nice too. I prefer my MK-V because its 2 inch and I know it but I do honestly think that gimble technology is the first thing most companies got right very early on in the Steadicam business. I am sure there are some poor operators out there that blame the gimble they are using. Oh I find the Pilot a little twitchy but I don't think that is to do with the gimble. Its just I am not very good at using the pilot but I'll happily blame the gimble if I was an arrogant sod with little life view and a narrow minded pedant. Luckily I am not. I think the Pilots gimble is quite good. I just need a little practise at using it.

Transvideo have been number one in the industry for a long time. Literally the best.

Same thing happened to me. Fully loaded Alexa in an AR rig and 4 batteries. Weirdly I caught the whole rig it was when I was balancing and the gaffer helped me. No harm done apart from my nerves. I for one would have liked to have seen a little more of a warning on the arm when I bought it. Possibly in the form of a sticker or something embossed on the arm. I've been reading about the PRO arm for 12 years and I had never seen this warning. Is there anything else I need to know?

I am pretty convinced that most gimble discussion is based on superstition. The coefficient of friction is SO unbelievably low in most modern well serviced gimbles that it simply is irrelevant. Maybe some don't sit right at a 6 second drop time but your moving and tilting and panning anyway. I am not saying that superstition isn't a very important part of focusing the mind and getting the best work but I do think that; Just get to work, do your shots, enjoy yourself and find a good school for your kids.

Make-up department seem to have a very good selection of bags and pouches perfect for cables.

I own this monitor and it is absolutely fantastic. I haven't bothered with an external sensor yet and not certain I need it. Tap to Cal is nonesense, turn that off immediately unless you want your grip re-calibrating your monitor whilst he's catching your rig. I've grown up with a Marrell and an XCS bubble (weirdly preferring the reactivity of the Marrell) and I am not sure I can be bothered to get an external bubble to this one. Its a good bubble. Brightness, well its very bright. Menu's well they are very simple, picture is smaller than other monitors out there because its over a 4:3 screen but its perfect for my little eyes to scan across in one go. I was a big fan of a little shrinking on my TB6. I use this monitor tabled with the matrix as standard. I currently have the Cinetronic on my AR rig and the Transvideo on my regular Sled. I use the standard Transvideo yoke inverted. I put a bit of gaffer tape over the buttons in the rain and I let the monitor get wet.

Are we talking about the XCS 2inch gimble. Do they make a 1.5inch Gimble?

Agents are purely and simply for handling your business when you have too much work. They really don't get you work and are often not as good at the finer points of negotiating a deal than you are especially at the lower end of the market where value can come in an amazing project you want to do or a make-up/costume girl you need to spend more set time with. At the higher end of the market they give clients assurance, they are contactable when your up a crane in the rain and have a good idea as to the jobs you like doing. They are great when you have too much work and your never checking your messages. They rarely need to negotiate the finer points at this stage as you'll be doing mostly full rate work and your business will be less nuanced. Only consider an agent when you absolutely have to have one then when that happens they are fantastic.

Why do you like your D box centred? What difference does it make?

What is that 8ft x 8ft illuminated silk? How do they do that?

Hey, I've just been using Transvideos monitor yoke upside down. Been very solid. Matthias's one does look great.

Was that my imagination then?

Isn't GPI PRO meant to be announcing a new mystery tool today? What is it? Any photos? Video?

Jens, You have a lot of faith in Arri. A faith I lost over those cheap CLM4 motor connectors.

I dunno Eric. I asked why Arri went with the fiddly little fisher on clm4 and was given same reasoning for ages. Finally found out from an engineer that it was just cheaper. Absurd. I've had them break twice now. I wouldn't put this past them simply trying to get costs down. Thomas

What Brian said Let the technology mature. Once dynamic easy rigs like BaerBells one come into production and beefier controls so the operater can control the camera and it all works. The movi system will come to us rather than we come to it. Sure a $20,000 additional investment but no one here is afraid of that. Build a solid operating repuation. Let all these other people pioneer the Movi. 4 years down the line think about buying one. In the mean time just think about other stuff.

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