Colin Elves

Cheers guys, very very helpful. Colin Elves.

Hi there, I'm following my wife out to India for three years in October and I'm hoping to carry on operating out there. At the moment I don't have my own rig, but may well purchase one next year. In the meantime I was hoping to carry on dry-hiring, but I don't expect Joe Mac's going to want to keep sending his rigs out to Delhi, so if anyone can reccommend any owner-operators in India who might be willing to dry hire me a rig every know and then, that would be ace. Cheers, Colin Elves. Currently London, UK, soon to be New delhi, India.

I bet it was scary. The only time I stepped off a crane was during training, in the middle of the panavision grips department, on a custom built steadicam platform, fully harnessed up and assisted by some very good grips. At the time I felt entirely safe and loved the shot. Having said that, without the harness I wouldn't have gone up (I'm a bit of a scardy-cat, I know, but people die making films every year). The end of the crane wobbled a wee bit due to simple physics, add to that an unfavourable wind and I can easily foresee a situation where you I would be slightly unbalanced, or the rig would shift away from me, I would unseat a little and whoosh, the rig pulls me off a 30ft drop. Not pretty. I remember at the time the grips said: Make sure you ONLY use a purpose built reinforced steadicam platform (not something they 'just knocked up') and ALWAYS wear a harness. Colin Elves, Steadicam newbie / doom-monger, london.

Hi there, I'm still after a Bartech (I keep missing out one them!) but also I have decided to get a second hand black box sender/receiver or similar if anyone has one going. Please email me: colin@elves.name Thanks, Colin Elves, London

Ooh, just what i'm after. How much and what condition is it in? Reply off list if you like: colin@elves.name Ta, Colin.

Hiya, I'm after a budget second hand wireless focus kit for a job starting in about a month. Ideally I'd like a Bartech, but will consider anything. I'm based in London, but will happily pay for international shipping. Ta, Colin.