Janice Arthur

Christian; Yes nicknames are fine but make sure first and last are there too Your example is perfect and if you want to sign your emails "kid" that's fine Welcome to the forum. Janice

Hi all; Long term care insurance is necessary but "too expensive" for most. Now you can find term life insurance with a long term care component in it for half as much cost. Regardless of age we need these things, for the risks of everyday life and especially with our jobs as freelancers. Secondly, Walter P.'s equipment insurance now has no minimum on equipment so you can customize your $ value to what you really need which is very good. Janice

Ants; I don't know specifics but I thinks it's a direct pay from the operator. Why would a production put themselves in the middle of your private agreement with an agent? (These days they would certainly not do anything they don't have to do.) Also, the last 10-20% that any agent might get is really your profit margin, it's maybe just a few hundred dollars but boy it's a hard check to write. They have earned it no question but it's a numbers thing and it makes you consider how you run your business. Janice

Max Tai chi and yoga are my suggestions now and after your procedure. Strength and patience without the stress of other workouts. I, like most, had to figure out the subtle details which of course I only scratched the surface of. Good luck and I also wouldn't tell lots of your local folks about this since they'll think you're out of commission for MUCH longer than you will be. (Your phone calls will cease for much longer than you want.) Janice

Hi all; Louis has it right, hire an op without some amount of essential extras like follow focus and transmitter then the production can control the profit margin on those items via their rental deal with the equipment supplier. So the production keeps the op from having to invest and they get to dictate rate. I'm not saying every op does this but it does give the production a wider pool of operators (who might be hungry) and "negotiations" are more controlled in their favor. It also follows that an op who does have all this equipment is "pisssd" because he/she HAS invested in all the right gear and can't get paid for it. My thoughts. Janice

Hi all; Found a bunch of stuff, pictures to follow by weekend. 1) Canatrans Lots of cables 2) 2 SD tuners 2) Shark Fin Antennas Make offer, I'd like to get rid of this stuff. More detail to follow once I get the stuff out and lined up I'll know more. 1) brand, new never worn Pilot vest 1) refurbished 3A vest, newly redone by me, just finishing it up so maybe pictures on it in 10 days. thanks. Janice steadijan(at)Hotmail.com

Johannes; I like it. Your four arms work a lot like the Steadicam arms when I stand still and run in place. Good luck. It's hard to come up with something new these days. As you know tilt is fixed and so adjusting for that maybe u have a plan or not? Of course tilted down helps you in part of a shot and not a help in other parts. You shoot where you aim works wide. Janice

Mihail; This sure seems like a product or it soon will be. While yes I get that you need feedback it's already far into development and I sense an impending product which is good but posting it as a full fledged device is hard to separate from free publicity. I'd also try Steadicam Facebook and see what they can provide for feedback. This is something you should discuss with Tim Tyler. Good luck. Janice

Mih; At the very least please use your full name. Second blatant advertising is not good here. Please contact Tim Tyler for exact rules. Janice

Jens; Wow, Greg is more than on top of things. I've noodled with how to deal with this idea and between camera menus, Steadicam monitor menus I wasn't sure it was either good or whole new set of problems Glad to hear it can work. Have a good summer all. Janice

Hi all; I was just a wondering if we are at the point where the next generation of Steadicam could have an assignable wiring harness or something I haven't thought of? (Everything has a menu now, when a Steadicam?) I'm thinking of what our next future rig would look like and having assignable active wiring strikes me but I'm no where close to 'in-the-trenches' as much as before. I'm just thinking out loud and have no knowledge of what's possible/needed. Janice

Mathieu I can't imagine how this would be cheaper than buying a used 3A arm. Materials and springs let alone time is just not worth it, is my opinion. That also assumes you make no mistakes and have to make parts more than once. Price out the materials and the springs, that should tell u a lot. Even if you make a modestly successful version and use it for a while I doubt anyone will buy it from you used. Good luck. Janice

Further thoughts Brant fagan made this rickshaw and a local op here sebastien audienne and I make it in my basement a couple of winters ago. No step on or off unless you remove the center post and I'm not sure if it's possible then but this is what we made. Sebastien got all the parts and my machine shop cut the rough lengths of the speed rail. None of this is hard but just a consideration. Cost, roughly $1800 us and I had the wheels.

Last minute thoughts; 12k pounds seems extraordinary unless I read this wrong. $2000 -2500 U.S. With you guys doing the work is my thought with some additional for "consulting" Janice (Pay right but not over the top )

James; Get another local op to be your 'devils advocate' on this and make sure you are getting what you want. Spread the cost out too and discuss plans as they are laid out. Now on the 'adviser' side if you are visiting with a spouse on a fun week and can budget a few days to help then it's a win for everyone. Planning ahead on the design you all agree on and time ahead to get the exact parts in would be good/essential in my book before anyone shows up to help otherwise the outcome is 'hey I told you to do this' and no one is accountable. Janice Good luck

Everything Lou; First you need to use your real name here. Second, by balance do you mean when you put the camera back on the steadicam it tips forward or back some? Then you've just put it back on the steadicam plate slightly differently. You're still "balanced" just dial the plate for and aft a bit. If you put the same weight (camera setup) back onto the top after coming off a slider or tripod then you have the same weight on top and the drop time has to be the same. The term "balanced" is a nonspecific term and we/you have to define it better. Good luck. Janice

Hi all; My dovetail plates eventually were so worn that they were dangerous. I found XCS plates were a much tighter fit and much more rigid. They also hold follow focus rods very securely. Really changed the way I attach a camera. They were $ money but boy did they work. If slippage is your issue and the lock is hard to replace this is an off the shelf solution with other perks. Janice Have a good, busy season.

Alec; Has mine that I parted with a few years ago and boy did I hate to see it go. Those things worked and did what u asked of them simply. Janice

Hi all; I'd love to see us start to get an world view on the materials we use and dispose of. I think at a bare minimum recycling batteries of all sorts would be a good start. The earth's resources are being used at an alarming rate and no longer so available. I'm just sick every time I see things disposed of without care and worse even wasted before being used completely. Maybe our group could start a trend? Janice Have a good summer.

I found a REDRUM plate years ago but maybe it's more about Steven King than Steadicam? Anybody have specialized plates? Janice

Actually in a passing moment I looked in one; will look more but a simple output is harder than u would think. Janice. If anyone has camera still looking.

I need a simple practice camera like an old camcorder that has an RCA or bnc out. Can be SD or HD. Need a battery or at least be able to buy one for it. Steadijan (at) hotmail .com Got some old camera laying around ? Janice

Hi all; I have a copy off the original from one of the engineers at Victor Duncan who shot it, John Christenson, who made sure I got a copy since I knew Ted. I started to post it but, of course, never did; I'm so happy to see that Dale did, this is very good. A real piece of history and funny that we're still learning from it let, alone fun gazing at the maker of it. What a wonderful world. Janice

Bo; Personally I think you need to take a 5 day workshop first!! You're so anxious to get started that you're either primed to buy wrong gear because you don't know what you don't or miss opportunities. You're also so eager we need you to work on your knowledge base because we can't answer every situation, they're just too many variables. We can and will help a bunch but you need to get some more info first. Janice Beware buying quick it's easy to buy but it's hard to buy correctly when you're too anxious. The Internet feeds this; fun of looking and imagining buying; the fun of thinking of owning; the fun of interacting with people based on the potential purchase; the excitement of finally buying; now the excitement of waiting for it to arrive; then it finally arriving!! Christmas!! Beware the traps! Lastly if u buy this thing buy a plane ticket to the guy try it out and fly home with it. Same as fed ex!! Janice

Yes I read about monitor on the gimbal but it didn't really make sense (too heavy, too close to op, and cables, not lined up with the shot all the time so pans backward) so I'll have to investigate and figure out how it works Thanks for the effort at clarification. I just don't get the details right now Janice