Fabrizio Sciarra SOC ACO

Sweet! It's louder than a DC3 start up! Thanks for sharing Louis. Anyway, even if slightly off thread, this made my Sunday, hope will do the same for you guys, here's my new hero

http://www.steadicamforum.com/index.php?showtopic=12176&pid=58608&st=0entry58608

Bump

In UK, Tiffen. There are also other engineers that can service the arm, like Brian Busby. You may find saving a lot with shipping

Hey Job, great to hear from you; I believe they went that way not to compromise the integrity of the material and keep it solid. The other way around we recognize that it could weaken the ring itself exposing it to the risk of an eventually easier break, being the screws in a position that would have left such a tiny portion of material. Anyway, good to have different options available! Let's meet up for a beer somewhere soon F

To all Bartech owners: you may be interested to know that new focus rings are now available. I have them done with the help of Movie Camera Support in London, which you may contact for any inquiry regarding the rings. Solid material has been used, same as the Preston rings. The rings are secured on the focus knob through the original Bartech screws. They've already been tested on different sets, a joy for the focus puller, no more messing around with strips, prepping days are now a breeze. I think is the perfect add on for the much trusted Bartech kit. MCS is based in London, but they can ship the rings anywhere; they are ready to accept Credit Card payments. Price for the rings is 16 British Pounds each. Please refer to Movie Camera Support directly as I'm not involved in their business in any form, I only helped them with few hints on the conceptual side and tested the rings on the field. You can contact Simon or Dave at: sales@moviecamerasupport.com All the best F

Ola Juan, PM'd you F

I'm afraid they're just throwing a lot of smoke in the eyes just to sell their "online degrees". Crap.

To Marty: quoting your own words, ....this does the trick: http://createasphere...pplication.html

Sorry, my fault. After a quick research of your only other post on this forum is clear, at least for me, that is just a shameless advertising. http://www.steadicamforum.com/index.php?showtopic=12211&st=0&p=57488&fromsearch=1entry57488 I'm afraid you aren't helping Artemis in any way. Fly even safer F

Marty, I still don't get the point of your very first post, really. Are you trying to convince the folks here about something you really believe or it's just pure advertising? In both case you won't go really far. Curious to know. Fly safe F

Might all this work? - Put the camera in the cage, power the cage, power the BM HDMI converter via the cage, add & power the cam-wave xmitter . . . . .I think I still have my Hill low mode bracket too. Doesn't look like Charles needs any additional weight. That's why I suggested you to consider the whole weight of the rig first, as it may change a lot depending on what you are carrying with the camera body itself. Also, again, the sled and arm flying the set up needs to be considered. A huge difference between a pilot and a Pro II for example, or whatever the brand of a sled that as been designed with big film cameras in mind. Make sure what will be the total weight to keep you in the sweet spot. Taking a closer look to the picture, Charles is using a Flyer arm, needles to say, perfect for the job. His sled, should be a custom made running rig, again, nothing better for his set up. Let us know F

...and another one

Hey Joe, I had mine done few days ago, so I can maybe give you few tips; I started considering the sweet spot for my arm and sled in terms of weight and inertia, so from there on decided the weight of the plate, considering also the weight of the whole rig around the camera body. At the end, mine came at around 10 pounds. Then stepped into a workshop, (suggest you to bring a cheese plate with you) and had the material shaped, then, went to a friend @ Panavision that helped me out with the holes. Pretty simple if you know what you want. Pics of my practice configuration, which is not light considering the camera....(I like to practice with heavy conf. to keep muscles up, but that's me) Hope it helps F

Hi Luiz, would you mind to post a link to the over mentioned vibrating shots? This may help in find where the problem sits. Let us know

Arm still for sale, ready to go. It's a great arm!

Hey Roger, you may find this link usefull: http://www.8ballcamerasupport.com/home.html You can also ask D. A. Grove, he has one made by himself. Hope it helps F

One more

Some more pics.

I'm selling my Silver Spring Arm, very nice and clean, a great starter arm, load capacity 13 lbs. to 63 lbs. it will fly anything, from a 5d to a fully rigged 535. It's UK based, ready to go, who's based here and want to pass by to give it a fly is more than welcome. Available for shipping worldwide (shipping and/or insurance not included in the sale price). It comes with a soft and padded Arm Bag. Selling for 6500 Euro ono.

A video top as per most film cameras should do the job and cut off all the weight of the optical finder. Don't forget to ask for it. Hope it helps F

Ditto

What a gem. Classy!

Hey mate, hope you're all right! Best wishes Fabrizio

1200 euro for a cheeseplate? :o Sounds "a bit" overpriced....where did you ask? Boeing? Maybe a phone call at Steadicam offices may help you out, or in worse case scenario ask at some other places in order to have a new one machined, I'm sure you won't spend more than couple of hundreds for a nice work. Where are you based? Hope you'll find a second hand here on the forum, if not let us know where you're based, somebody will chime in to suggest you a place where to do it for a reasonable price. Good luck