Thomas English

Brian Busbee. FB me for his contact information.

I lose the odd T-Bar but really my cases are open for the camera team to access at all times without asking me and its never an issue. Very occasionally a loader will contact me a couple of days after a job saying they have this or that at the bottom of their unit bag and they post it back to me.

Asset labels are all you need in my opinion.

Steadicam Tango and Zephyr Sled

£6500 or nearest offer

Prefer to sell together but can be sold seperately. The setup has seen maybe 12 days out. The Tango was sent back to the factory in the U.S.A care of Tiffen for a full upgrade to the Tango at current specs. Many components are completely brand new when they were factory upgraded including the main post and slave gimble. Since the upgrade its really not come out of the box. Suitable for someone wanting to make a name for themselves with a new piece of kit that will be part of the future of camera movement. I am getting very bogged down in A or B -Camera Operating / Steadicam on dramas on brutal schedules. This is more suitable for someone in commercials and music videos where trick shots are appreciated.

My work with this rig can be viewed here: http://www.thomasenglish.co.uk/steadicam-tango

There is no vest and arm with this sled although it does include the spigot to use on the PRO arm as well as a G70, G50 or X variations.

http://www.thomasenglish.co.uk/stuff-for-sale for higher resolution photos.

Well try with zero cable in there and see if the balance falls over. If it is the cable then contact Ash at MK-V because the cables have been improved over the years. The old ones did slop about and the new ones are coil rigged.

First place I would look on this sled is if the base is rotating slightly. it need only be half a degree of play. Next is cables especially post cable.

Well my friend makes art by wearing one of these headsets and sitting in a corner of a room

http://www.emotiv.com/apps/epoc/299/

She says can make a pan and tilt camera head controller. Us Steadicam operators are often a little missing in spare hands. What applications are there?

Motorized topstage control

Boot and un-boot Omega AR stabilized head

Dimming of the ring light when actor gets too close to the lens

Communicating with your focus puller with straight cues on a silent set.

Movi pan and tilt on the end of your Steadicam (I am joking)

Any more?

John Ward is a top quality high end bloke. Love him. Yeah he hired out all the arms that were used as guns on Aliens. Inspiring fella.

The Rickshaw is a bargain. I have the same one and its very good. Get a motorbike company to collect and deliver.

Only got good things to say

Your right Robert but... some people are just being wankers month in month out and year in and year out. I can't be bothered to comment on it everytime as I have done many times. It is tiring, its boring and makes this forum a shit place to get information. This is why most friendly technical chatter now happens on facebook and the forum is slowly dying. FB has no search function, it has no archiving possibilities and so as a professional body wanting to advance our art we should not support it as a knowledge residence.

Thing is there are many people that don't want to support our common art. They want to do well and stuff everyone else.

Let's face it. Year on year this forum is less good, it is more petty, it is more full on one up-manship. I am caring less and less about it. One day it'll die. It's a shame but it'll be left with a load of old trolls who where once great operators slagging off a load of teenagers.

Democracy and freedom of speech need rules to flourish or bullies will always take it over and abuse.

Its a good point. You have "Report this post"

It would be a shame to let the minority few continue to ruin this forum. I am going to report posts I feel are too obnoxious from now on. It is basically playground bullying.

Pfft.. these oners at lowish budgets are full of compromises so Ari; that is Stirling work. Tenacious D is awesome great lowfi-hifi love it. The arm probably deserved it anyway.

Let go of the sled and let it do its own thing and then tickle it.. Try it neutrally balanced then make it a little bottom heavy.. Your almost certainly too bottom heavy. Buy some beers and play around. Like John says.

Granted that a poll of 20 top LA operators is no actual survey of the giant international English speaking film industry but it is still interesting. Ironically Alec, I started going through a phase of using "frame" when I was B-Camera operating for your DoP, the Lovely Milton Kam. I thought at the time it was a New York thing and I readily adopted it because thats what the DoP was doing and he is a very cool guy.

Lets not get too bogged down in semantics. Last night I was calling "BoooM!" on a playstation advert because I had to time the track in with when the action happened.

Do you guys wait for A-Camera to call set before you call set on B-Camera or do you just call it when you want ahead of A-Camera?

What is AR Richard?

"AR on the Cinetronic"

ANT video plugin for firefox for tricky ones and keepvid for easy ones

I say "camera happy" when we are good to turn over and set when good for action. I don't bother with camerahappy if I am not on Steadicam.

Does this level have the same inertia compensation that other modern levels have?

His project looks great. He looks like he has some balanced handwheels and he has a scale in production slated which will make it worthwhile him doing. I struggled a little because of the costs of the rotary encoders. My margins where so rubbish the project fell a little flat. My hat is off to all those people out there that do actually manage to deliver a product at scale to market.

I've been making and selling these for a while to cameramen for £500 including foot pedals. I have 3 units left in stock currently.

Mine are used to simply control the mouse and press the space or other pre-programmed button. Great for playing first person shoot-em ups. You don't need to install any custom software.

Private message me if your interested.

Hold on.. the 1x1 antennae is a Receiving antennae. Its placed nicely above everyone's heads and far far away from your testicles.

The Boxx is NOT a high power unit. It simply has very good Antenna array.

With regards to the Alexa being 24v. I have been told by a few people that the main body is actually 12v and it is only upconverting the RS 3pin 24v out for accessories. This was the argument I heard for Panavision going 12v AB on UK cameras. It should be noted that Arri Media allso use 12v AB batteries on their cameras.

Basically I am not sure the Alexa is a 24v camera. certainly its very compatible with 24v to fit in with the rest of the Arri line going back decades.

Can anyone elaborate or dispute this hearsay with actual facts? Since I am only working on rumour.

Pfft.. my brain has centimetres of dense bone protecting it. My balls are right there!

To be honest I don't care about the Boxx being on all day. The biggest risk is diet. High volumes of pesticides and chemicallly altered food actually in your belly is far more dangerous.

Short of the Boxx HD system this is hands down the best wireless. I've got this, a CW7 and just bought a Boxx.

Yeah I far prefer physical contact. Ideally a hand on my neck and another in my back pocket gently nudging.