Jeff Melanson

Yes, it is still available. Email me at jmelansonfilm@gmail.com

Price Drop

MK-V LW INFINITY SLED KIT - $8,000 OBO must go!

Items are located in NYC but can ship worldwide.

Price includes the following:

mk-v Infinity HD-SDI sled

- 1.5" carbon fiber post
- 3a top stage

- mk-v lw dovetail
- 3a gimbal
- Infinity monitor arm
- alpha electronics HD-SDI D-box, j-box
- v-mount baseplate
- (2) Tiffen power cube V-mount batts

- V-mount dual simultaneous charger
- pelican rifle case
- ruige hd-sdi 7" monitor ( has small scratch on screen) great back up monitor.

- (4)12inch 19mm mk-v lw rods for monitor arm and base system.

- (2) 10inch 19mm mk-v lw rods

Cables

-mk-v to alexa 24v right angle

-mk-v to alexa 12v straight

-mk-v to epic 12v

-mk-v to redone 12v

-mk-v to arri 12v

Please contact: jmelansonsteadicam@gmail.com

Price Drop

Sled with both anton/v-mount plates and monitor - $9,900

(Price includes batteries, dovetail, power cables, bnc's and more.)

Please contact: jmelansonsteadicam@gmail.com

Sled is in like new condition with minor scratches and general wear from light usage. I've only had this sled for just over two years. For the past year and half or so I've barely used it, other than the odd job, as I transitioned to DP work. All the electronics were upgraded just over a year ago to the infinity alpha system HD-SDI.

Mk-v Infinity HD-SDI sled
- 1.5" carbon fiber post
- 3a top stage

- mk-v lw dovetail
- 3a gimbal
- Infinity monitor arm
- alpha electronics HD-SDI D-box, j-box
- v-mount baseplate
- Anton Bauer baseplate
- (2) Tiffen power cube V-mount batts

- V-mount dual simultaneous charger
- pelican rifle case
- ruige hd-sdi 7" monitor ( has small scratch on screen) great back up monitor. which is what I used it for.

- (4)12inch 19mm mk-v lw rods for monitor arm and base system.

- (2) 10inch 19mm mk-v lw rods

Cables/AKS

-mk-v to alexa 24v right angle

-mk-v to alexa 12v straight

-mk-v to epic 12v

-mk-v to redone 12v

-mk-v to arri 12v

-mk-v to 2pin bartech power

-spaghetti BNC cables

Asking $12,000 USD for complete sled with cables and batts, but will sell any of the pieces individually. Please email me directly at jmelansonsteadicam@gmail.com

Sled with both anton/v-mount plates and monitor (will sell without) - $11,000

Powercube batts/charger - $500

cables/aks - whole lot for $500 email me for specific individual pricing

Items are located in NYC.

Vest and arm SOLD.

MK-V Sled is still AVAILABLE with 2 v-mount batteries and both anton and v-mount plates. Asking 13K or best offer.

please email: jmelansonsteadicam@gmail.com

Price drop

Asking $23,000 USD for complete package, but will sell any of the pieces individually. Please email me directly at jmelansonsteadicam@gmail.com

Everything is in like new condition with minor scratches and general wear form light usage. I've only had this rig for just over 2 years. For the past year or so I've barely used it, other than the odd commercial, as I transitioned to DP work. All the electronics were upgraded under a year ago to the infinity alpha system HD-SDI.

Mk-v Infinity HD-SDI sled
- 1.5" carbon fiber post
- 3a top stage

- mk-v lw dovetail
- 3a gimbal
- Infinity monitor arm
- alpha electronics HD-SDI D-box, j-box
- v-mount baseplate
- Anton Bauer baseplate
- (2) Tiffen power cube V-mount batts

- V-mount dual simultaneous charger
- pelican rifle case
- ruige hd-sdi 7" monitor ( has small scratch on screen) this was my back up, works great for starting out.

- (4)12inch 19mm mk-v lw rods for monitor arm and base system.

- (2) 10inch 19mm mk-v lw rods

Luna arm 15-70lb weight range

- softcase

Walter Klassen back mount vest

- extra straps and hardware
- portable air pump.
- pelican case and leather case for carbon fiber arm

Cables/AKS

-mk-v to alexa 24v right angle

-mk-v to alexa 12v straight

-mk-v to epic 12v

-mk-v to redone 12v

-mk-v to arri 12v

-mk-v to 2pin bartech power

-AB power tap ext. cable

-AB to 4pin XLR right angle

-spaghetti BNC cables, (1)18"black, (2) 36"black, (1) 36" grey, (2) 6' grey.

-pro-x v-mount plate to p-tap

Asking $24,000 USD for complete package, but will sell any of the pieces individually. Please email me directly at jmelansonsteadicam@gmail.com

Sled with both anton/v-mount plates and monitor (will sell without) - $13,000

Luna Arm - $7500

Walter Klassen Vest - $3500

Powercube batts/charger - $500

cables/aks - email me for specific individual pricing.

Items are located in NYC.

Price Drop 7500 USD

Arm is 2 years old with only light use and is great condition with some minor cosmetic scratches. Comes with soft case.

Asking 8000 USD

Email me: jmelansonfilm@gmail.com | Arm is located in NYC

Jeff, absolutely great work!

 

How did you operate the iris for that music video, or didn't you?

thanks kevin,

locked the iris wide open at a 2.8. rated at 640. Exposed for the highlights in the brighter rooms of the house, and brought up the darker scenes within our latitude by adding some light. could of used a nudge here or there by a half stop or so, but budget wouldn't allow. The 7d has pretty good latitude for inexpensive camera.

Great work Jeff. It's nice to see this level of operating with a lightweight rig.

 

Regarding cabling--I've had to re-enter the world of external cabling with my lightweight and full-size rig as I transition to HD monitoring but I'm taking a page from the old rigs that didn't have internal cabling, such as old geezers like myself started with. I run the cable down from the front of the stage to the back of the monitor (where they plug in), keeping it fairly taut. Similar to the way you have it set up but it won't ever get in your field of view of the monitor the way it possibly can from certain angles with your setup. Give that a try if you haven't already.

Thanks charles,

I'll give it a go, makes more sense that way now that i think of about it. thanks for the tip. great work on that one'er on ugly betty by the way, came across it a while back, loved the flow and dynamics of the shot, impressive.

side note-which lightweight rig do you fly?

Just did a music video on the 7d. http://www.vimeo.com/7867769.

We built it up with set of old letus rods, redrock mattebox, bartech/m-one. Suprisingly I had no issues with the camera moving on the plate, as the rubber base on the camera seemed to grip on the letus plate nicely. http://www.letusdirect.com/cart/letus35-support-rods.html

I had to loop an hdmi cable around the gimbal, but fortunately had no issues with it getting it in the way.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidkruta/41...57622737211405/

One big issue I did have though, was using my 7 inch marshall monitor to take the hdmi signal. The signal kept cutting out if you even lightly bumped the connection to the camera body. Anyone else have this experience?

Hey guys, glad you enjoyed some of my work. Yeah I was using the flyer le system for the Prospect hill video.

Once we put the 7d body, 16-35 zoom on a set of rods with 4 stage mattebox, bartech system/m-one motor, and brick battery to power it, it was aprox. 15lbs/7kg of camera weight judging by how much I adjusted the springs in my arm. So for a longer shot like this, with the dutch roll (upside-down kegstand), and a quick jog up stairs, it was a good weight range. There were a few areas in the shot where the lens shakes a little, I found at running speeds the carbon fiber sled tends to add a little shake to the lens, but other than that I like the lightweight sled and arm for most shoots. By far the hardest part of the shot was right after flipping the camera for the upside down keg stand, having catch the horizons while walking over to the drummer, it took me 11 takes to get a decent take.

The on set photographer didn't seem to know how to control his shutter, so here's an out of focus shot of the setup! Notice the loose hdmi cable I had to run down around the gimbal to the monitor, believe it or not, i found running it like that keeps it out of the way for almost any steadicam move.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidkruta/41...57622737211405/

Yeah that really stuck out for me too! pretty intense, at first I was like there's no way that just happened (thought his first step was straight up to the hood of the car but at a closer look there's a tire there to act as the first step/springboard lol, still a ridiculously cool shot!

kevin you called it exactly right, I placed the tire there to help me clear the car, Only did one take of this, didn't want to push my luck and end up falling and taking down my rig and a red.

-Jeff

I just got off that multicam Hd job,

When I first arrived the engineer brought me a loom of about 12 cables all strapped together, and said, let me know when your connected. I quickly stopped him, and refused. Finally I talked him down to video,TC, and remote. I ended up having major problems with that monsterous remote cable, do you have any photos of the rig you made for it?

Also, which company makes the superlightweight bnc cables, I had a few that came with my rig, but I need some replacements.

thanks,

I did a concert the other night with the HPX 3000 and it a really nice camera, unless they are hooking you up to a multicam set up, then they are going to put a Remote Cable, Time Code, Video, Audio & Gen Lock along with PL . . . .all of that sucks . . . . . to fly with.

 

Other than that it's the normal, video set up

 

what are your specific questions

Im actually using the hpx2000, I think it's slightly older, but similar.

It is a mulitcam set up, so all of the above which you mentioned, will have to be slapped on my rig. I've never ran with all that extra cabling so I'm a bit concerned with being able to control my rig with all the cables attached.

Any tips?

Doing a 4 concert series in nyc next week shooting on the panasonic hpx2000

i've never mounted this camera before, only its smaller brother the hvx200.

Anything to watch out for? anyone have photos of their set up?

thanks,