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And how about the new zero-g arm from actioncam.Tremendous range,compatible, and nice price. Constantine Tirintzis :)

Eric hello.great product it sounds like. Will you have a representitive in Europe though. These electronics do brake down and send them to usa for repair is a big prob when you live elsewhere. What warranty it carries? Constantine Tirintzis

Hey Late happy birthday Jim.If you are born at the 8th we celebrated our birthday same day Iam born at the 8th as well. Constantine :)

As I ve had already apologized to Fred for the confusion , The zoom controller pot is from an external zoom controller that connects with a cable to the tajimi connector under the cannon lense. I have shorted E, and F possition on the tajimi connector that they appier to be the camera start on off. All I need now is to find out where 1,2,3,4 contact points from the zoom pot connect to the A,B,C,D of the tajini connector to operate externally the zoom lense, one diagram for cannon, and one diagram for fuginon lenses. If anyone does have this info please help. Thanks in advance Constantine :(

Thanks fred but I still dont get it. The zoom pot has 4 contacts numbered 1,2,3,4. I dont know what they are or do. The cannon 8 pin which is probably the hirose you are describing has A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H. sO CAN YOU TELL ME PLEASE WHERE 1 from pot goes to which letter,2....etc. thanks man :(

Does anyone knows where 1,2,3,4 points on a zoom pot connect to a, A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H, CANNON lence connector for cannon lenses. And also the same question with the same connector for fuginon lenses? I know the start on off possition but I had a break down-someone riped off the cable by stepping on it - and I ergendly now need the wiring cause I use it every day? Maybe Jim Bartell or anyone? tHANKS constantine

Hello there. ill slip in to tell my oppinion about all this bussiness. 2-3 PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE ORGANISED AND TRULLY RESPONSIBLE TO THEIR CUSTOMERS,is enough to get this bussiness going.Everything is made in small factories machine shops with quality control so once you have some good and reliable assosiets good respond and customer support shouldnt be a problem. As I can see Jan is making some very serius products and should have this kind of assosiets to work with. If not he has to find some new ones. Baer - bel has exelend service and is a one man show. As for answering emails please you can answer 100 emails in 2-3 hours. I dont think the company gets that many but even if they do they should consider them selves blessed and hire more companies to produce more and better products instead of loosing customers and get bad reputation. I too believe that he makes good stuff but if I wanted to buy something it would be something I can repair my selve and I would fly there for imidiate purcase.Instead of loosing working days with countless delays and excuses.if you live in europe that is. the rest of you have the main players living next door-for usa that is. Constantine Tirintzis :ph34r:

Hello there. Iam trying to view the pdf files on the steadicam site for the archer, flyer and clipper2, and for some reason the viewer doesnt work.I can view ok the other pdf files in this site though. Iwas wondering if there is a problem on the steadicam site or something Does anyone else has this prob? thanks Constantine Tirintzis :(

hey Matt. If you are interested to this as a project and want to make something to work with micro cams as you have mentioned I can either make you or help you make a gyro stabilised remote head for the cam to skip vibrations, pitch and yau errors of the heli and also remote control it. Constantine please contact me directly flexy@otenet.gr :)

Oh lord. Original and innovative in all of its designs and concepts. Like the fact that the Steadicam Flyer came out and then-miraculously MK-V invented its own lightweight rig which is for all intents and purposes a Flyer? Have you no manners at all? No grace or respect, no recognition or admittance of the facts of history? How thoroughly appalling of you to say such a thing to Mike, when the careful examination of your products and the dates of "invention" reveal otherwise in the extreme. For shame, sir. For shame. The ability to machine a hunk of aluminum to 1/10,000ths of an inch ( or metric equivalent thereof ) doesn't make one a gentleman or a respectful member of the community. OR an inventor of truly original products. It just means one can cut metal. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> so what do you say Mr Abraham? that no other company than tiffen should exist, and they are all cut metal workers? Dont you think with all respect that this is a bit offending and inaccurate the list? The flyer is just a nice little rig for the new needs of the new cams and production, and nothing more nothing less.Very nice but not something increadibly innovating, just a nice little rig.Why do you have to fight over something so much that to create so much bad vibes on the forum? I have asked you once before does everyone has to drive one make of car? And if not does he disrespect history? Constantine Tirintzis

Forgive me if Iam wrong but Iam sure these days there are more than one manufacturers producing fine products even if the weel was discovered by one 30 years ago.Iam sure you dont drive the same car as you did 30 years ago.About price? you can live that subject to the pocket of its one that wants to spent on what he likes and his personal taste. One sided people dont make the world go round. Mkv is defenatly not one sided as they produce products for most of the manufacturers to go with and they are not the only one who does that. If they are expensive, well I think each one can tell and decide,as noone any more hides his prices. Iam sure the new flyer is a nice system and works well but not the only system. And they will be more thanks god. Constantine Tirintzis :)

that goes back a few years ago. Thats Brian the maker of the actioncam a very innovative guy. I think the set up was one bolex s16 and 11 slrs. placing the bolex on one far side and tracing the image throu video assist, and also tracing the image of the last slr, covering a 100 degrees curve or so, in varius angles using the roll and tilt of the sled as he was running around with the sled horizontial to the ground. the arm was the old action arm with a torsion spring. Now Ikonoscope makes these really nice s16 cams that weight with lens and bat and mag 1.5 kilos. Who is gonna buy 12 of them?Hi Hi Constantine Tirintzis :lol:

The arm should handle the weight of the sr3 and bat on board depending also on the lens it carries.Ihave flown on on my sk2 with a wide light lens in the past and I was at the top limit, but it was ok flies ok. :)

So I would like to ask now one more question here.Is Eric Fletcher a customer of the AR, is he an invetor or in any way involved in this project,is he an advertiser of the AR, or finaly what is the overall interest of his. As I said I had a mail from him, not from Lynn, not from Howard, warning me about patents and stuff, to be quit honnest,if you dont know whats the deal oppossite to you you dont care that much and get so emotional about stuff, unlss you get something out of it.Unless Eric is so much over the head answering questions, like this and other that I had in the last posts, because maybe he is so much more supirior than operators in other countries than US, which is more unlike they will hAVE THE BUGET TO BUY THE AR, I would like to know where he stands, whats the motive,and generally why he is doing it.The AR might be a miracle but the overall handling of it on this forum gets very suspicius. Other than that when I read his posts I see he gets very exited about any oppossite party asking or demanding info about the AR, Which is natural since only 30 ops have seen it, if you want you can be secretiv about it, just dont post nothing, get your AR, then be talk talk about it. The feeling isnt good, thats the vibes I get anyway. Eric I challenge you to anwer this time, and this come from an SK2 op not a Hollywood well payed rich op. Constantine Tirintzis ;)

Well you ve got a a point there Daniel,somehow I dont get it either,but one thing I see is that the way it was choosen to get spread on the forum,made everybody more and more curius about it.Either way the trooth is close enough now so I hope soon we ll get to see it.As for the points I have writen before it was just some thoughts of how it works and what I think will taketo operate with it,nothing more. I have a lot of questions that I d like to ask though.A machine like this is far more complicated than a normal sled, rotational graddles rotating camera and green screens,and a lot of expensive and complicated electronics.That in the case of bangs and crashes of this equipment can result problems that can not be solved on the fly,or in a sort time while shooting.It better be bulletproof and have the quikest and best service avaliable or ....I dont know...I think they have worked this out so its trouble free.Imagine though that if you have to pay a lot of money for simple repairs of steadi parts,how expensive any repair will be on this thing Hmm who ever has 45 thousand to spend on this will probably be aware of that as well. Constantine Tirintzis :P

Hello.Alot of battles here. Ihavent seen any of what Iam gonna be describing,its just logik and mechanics. Since the AR will be a roll gradle perfectly balanced for the cameras CG, newtlal balance for the rig so its newtral in high and low mode,the operation is hard when you get from high to low mode.First you will have to deal with a circular move on the side, and that means that if you want to keep the cameras angle the same , you will either have to step iside the opposite way from high to middle and then get back from middle to low.Or do that moving the rig from the arm iside and back. The other thing will be to mix your rotation axis skills with that.for example when in high or low mode the pan control is pan and the tilt is tilt.But in the middle possition it is reversed, the pan is tilt and tilt is pan. and in the proccess of going from high to middle and then low these mixtures can be in the middle reversed middle and normal.So it can very well F..K up your brain signals to your hand operating and used the normal steadicam way.Also the 2 above effects must be operated together and fluently.Does it sound hard enough now?aMi wrong somewhere?we will see.I hope I havent blown any secrets hear its just logik and mechanices in 3D space.There s also a better way for the AR moves but it has serius camera limitations in size and weight.Thats why the second has been choosen I think.But one day very soon the cams will be so tiny....and then.... The coptervision doesnt work, in terms that if you place the rig in newtral balance, because the camera will not be balanced in its cg looking at the pictures I can tell so,it will affect the rigs balance when rolled or try to keep horizon. As I said in another post Iam working in a 3rd possibillity, that theoritically works. How ever if I deside to add roll in my motion camera I will be stepping into the ARs patents and thats not something I will never do.I have a lot of respect for this project and his mentores.My way will be very cool if it works though becaust it adds something more to it, like a small crane, move. But it will need scale too to operate and practice.We LL see how it goes.I have allready recieved a male from Eric saying how many patents I violate if I do this but thas a bit anfair for someone to say with out understanding and know how the project works, or do you Mr Fletcer seen any?The AR will defenatly change the way you operate but for the best I think, and any new device with a 3D logik and electronics will be different in operating.Just practice thats all.Howard and Lynn KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK,and saw as the AR as soon as possible.It has been taken a year so whats a few months left hey?Congrads for your baby Howard. Constantine

Polecam I had a go 2 years ago on a tripod and I liked it.It moved nicely. Iam 100% sure that with some convertion of mine, adding gyrostabillity and 2 extra gimbals I can make it work on a arm nicely. Thing is that its very expensive for experiments so I will make my own. Thanks .By the way any photos of this gyro russian system or a site or something. Curius to see it. Constantine

picture of the old intelligent head I have made for my airship. The new one is much smaller and light with different design but same mechanics and electronics

Well there are a few differences and a few drawbacks . As I said this I design for these wonderfull very light S16 cameras, and small HD. something like a special rig for special shots.full size cams is out of the question,only maybe a modified arri 2c made of CF like the one was made in the flying eye project - remote arship -but that is not for my pocket. There are a few reasons why I think my boom will work on the steadi arm and the booms above wont.First of all the french boom cant be balanced.it has an enormous bent at 3 meters.so even wit t a gimbal you will have errors mostly horizon..The pole cam is even worst in that point no gimbal and no horizon compensation in any way,your body talks. But this little tricky head of mine,has this intelligent electronic gimbal above it,and no matter what the angle of youy body or the booms is,it keeps perfect horizon. So this way you do not need a gimbal after the arm,even if I have added one in the design for even better. Drawbacks. much heavier than other body systems above - with cam 27-33 kilos complete. No roll motion, or dutch roll. No full size cams,special rig for small cams. Adavandages. exeptional horizon and pitch stability from body or wind errors. super low to super high mode with full manual and joystick pans and tilts. The first prototype of this inteligent head I have made for my airship can be seen at my site whitch needs updating www.flexy.co.gr the new one is made very differently with cf tubing but the mechanisms are work the same way. please do not comfuse it with the allien,nothing like that,small system for clever shots. Thanks for the feedback guys Costantine

Hello. I have a project going and I would like to see your oppinion about this. Since Iam a steadicam and jimmy jib operator and have designed some personal gadgets here and then recently I have made a small remote head that is for cams between 1-5 kilos.It weights 1.5 kilo its wireless pan and tilt and its also stabilized electronicaly in pitch and roll axis so can keep perfect horizon if its nicely balanced. Iwas planing to run this on a remote cable rig.I had in mind small HD cams, and also Iconoscope s16- 1,5 kilo, and A- minima aaton s16.Since the head is very nice in stabilizing horizon and pitch errors as well as wind errors - have tested it manually hand held - I made some designs of making a boom sled that it can be placed on a steadicam arm, length 2-3 meters telescopic from center, 1 meter tail. This way I can do some extreme low mode to 3 meter high mode moves,manual pans and remote pans and tilts very much like a small remote crane using a joystick,can fly over obstacles like tables and other surfaces and do all that while walking. From some breef calculations the system with monitor bats and 2 kilo camera will weight 17 kilos.It utilizes 2 gimbals one manual like steady type and one electronic on the remote head.How do you find this option as a complete system? Of cource you have to be trained to operate joystiks married with steadicam tecknics but is that interesting? I will try and get some videos down as soon as I finish it and see how it goes. I would appreciate some feed back. Thanks Constantine

Hello. Out of curiosity I would please like to kindly ask Mr Howard J Smith why is it such a secret to talk about and picture the allien, if as I know from Mr Lynn Nickolson and his mails is already patented and secured. Is this to make the steadicam world more curius about it and for marketing or there is something else? Also stating a time table of when this is going on production, instead of wait a little longer and a little more longer should be the right thing to do. I remember a site called the revolution, and statements like we will send info about it and all that has disapered and gone. Personaly I know what it can do and can imagine how it looks like but I cant stop being curius. Also there are ops in the rest of the world,that is difficult to be in the us. Dont make this a dissadvandage to us please. Constantine Tyrintzis Flexy @ otenet .gr Sk2 owner and operator.