Charles Papert

You know what they say: You two, get a room!

Jens, would you have the opportunity to test the DayVue on a non-daylight monitor, like a standard onboard TV Logic etc? I'd be curious if it has a positive impact there. Thanks.

Very slow sensor by today's standards, no log recording active yet (as of NAB). Think it will be a while. It's a pretty body but it's marred by a few scars--all the connectors stick out the right side of the body. That will be fun for all left-flying operators. Also the cutout hump in the back half of the camera is an old school concept, it will sit front heavy with all but the lightest lenses and/or a much bigger battery than is required. Arri got it with the Amira, AJA didn't with this one.

Great story, Peter. Immediately conjured up images of Ted's apartment--I used to love going over there and looking at all of his framed pictures from different shoots and whatnot, and the various bits of gear, telescopes etc. I was there one night when a bunch of CP emissaries were over including Chuck and "good ol" Jesse Garfield; I believe it was during the SMPTE show so who knows, perhaps that was the same time of year.

http://youtu.be/6tYnAf7PqV0?t=1m29s

Doesn't list 23.98PSF in the specs, but that may be an omission.

Title kind of says it all. Need more clearance to mount these motors on my zooms, so need an add on gear that is 1" or so wider. Anyone have those lying around (with screws, hopefully) from the bad old days when we all had Seitz's and WRC's?!

Mike, any other performance based changes represented with these models? I assume based on your recent response regarding the long re-pair time after power interruption, that will be the same here?

I too was contacted by this company and we had a good dialogue. Yes, a skilled focus puller is worth their weight in gold. However, there are situations as we all know where things can push the ability of almost all of them. Wide open on long lenses, camera moving--occasional buzzes are a way of life and we know and accept this. If an automated system can actually out-perform an AC in certain circumstances, there is a place for that. Look, we all agree that when an AC has to pull from one character to another, they are making choices that no algorithm can replicate. But a significant chunk of focus pulling is simply keeping a given subject sharp, with no other mandate than that. If an automated system can ASSIST with that aspect (not REPLACE the AC's skills), why wouldn't there be a place for that? If they can toggle in and out of an assisted mode at their discretion, wouldn't that be worth it? I brought up a scenario to Sam Morgan Moore today where a racecar is barreling towards camera on a long lens. Few AC's are going to be able to take that car all the way as it approaches; in almost all cases there is a point where it will fall apart and we simply expect that. In that scenario, an automated system may be able to maintain focus to the point where the driver is literally in a closeup. Sam points out that modern still lenses can do exactly that, by calculating and extrapolating the speed the object is approaching. Basically this is the kind of scenario Preston tackled years ago with the Light Ranger. As Afton notes (and as I discussed with the folks behind the Andra), a piece of gear is only bringing on if it works reliably. AC's are notoriously slow to adopt new tech (anyone remember how much grumbling there was about the HU3? and how many AC's even remember how to use the range buttons that have been on the Preston hand units since the beginning?) and this device would have to really knock it out of the park to be accepted. I'm sure a bunch of us will play with it at the show next week and have plenty to say.

oops. didn't see that. Mods, please delete.

http://www.newsshooter.com/2014/04/02/introducing-the-andra-motion-focus-system-making-the-impossible-possible/

Thinking about it. Pondering options. Ya know.

Any driving in from LA on Monday or leaving Wednesday night?

It wouldn't. But hey, if anyone else wants or needs it??

Jens, I have the H-shaped bracket that mounts to the MDR2 with the PRO quick release shoe on it (but not the mating part from the DB to the rig). Let me know if that is of any use to you.

Well, I didn't really think I'd have anything to place in this thread, but last night I was skipping through the pay channels and happened across a shot from the final movie I operated, John Carpenter's "The Ward" (2010). http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrbx2y_john-carpenter-s-the-ward-2010_shortfilms sequence starts around 9:00. Apologies if that site isn't available to overseas viewers. I don't think that clip is on Youtube. A running shot master that is chopped up editorially. Had some very specific beats to hit in the midst of flat-out running. The semi-whip to reveal the ghost girl at 9:07 and again at 9:20, the latter being especially diabolical coming on the heels of a fast tilt down. And then, why stop at two pan reveals when we can do another one at 9:33. I had a great time doing Steadicam for John Carpenter. Once I got him to stop referring to the rig as a Panaglide (!), we came up with a lot of fun stuff. The only thing he hadn't seen before, surprisingly, was the Garfield mount on the dolly, which we used a fair amount in shots like the one at :31.

That's the last straw, I'm quitting the Forum. But before I go, a lengthy manifesto. BALLS thank you

Apparently it is, I never knew that meself.

Chloroplast and zip ties sounds like a high school biology project. Doc, I think you were going for coroplast (short for corrugated plastic). If anyone could use chloroplast to mount a transmitter, it would be Chameides.

Working around a tiger is one thing, but powering a 435 off an NC-12? Witchcraft!

http://www.steadicamforum.com/index.php?showtopic=16488&hl=badge In the past I've been shut down with a business card or a letter. The sticklers want to see official ID. The badge I made from the site in that link has been completely foolproof, and has helped avoid wasted time, asking for supervisors etc. I just wished I had done it a few years earlier when I was flying a lot more. It's still amazing to me that easily half of the agents I've come up against draw a complete blank when you say "media rate".

And, neatly skewered. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnjUhQvGi0#t=180

Tim, is the panel you are making similar to the one Boxx sells? Just wondering if you have anything different going on gain, orientation, mounting etc. Also wondering the same about the Paralinx one.

Petty quarrels aside, and most importantly: this was the very thread in which I revealed my true identity as Prussian nobility. Yours most fluidly, The Baron Frederick von Gimbletorque

If anyone needs the shoe part of the PRO quick release mount (the part that screws to the top of the MDR), I find that I still have mine and don't need any more.