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3ality - TS-5

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Jon MIchael Puntervold

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Anyone know the price of a 3ality TS-5 rig?

Are they possible to buy second hand or refurbished?

Best regards,
Jon M.
 
While I don't recall the exact purchase price of a TS-5 (somewhere around $150,000 IIRC) don't forget that you must also buy a 3ality Technica SIP and then pay the license fee for the SIP software for whatever the duration of your production. This is just to say that the cost of owning a 3T rig isn't limited to the rig itself.
 
Keith Putnam said:
While I don't recall the exact purchase price of a TS-5 (somewhere around $150,000 IIRC) don't forget that you must also buy a 3ality Technica SIP and then pay the license fee for the SIP software for whatever the duration of your production. This is just to say that the cost of owning a 3T rig isn't limited to the rig itself.
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This has changed.
 
Jon MIchael Puntervold said:
...ah, what exactly does the SIP do?
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Well the SIP does a lot of things. Direct TV and BSkyB use it for 3D post QC for their live to tape feeds. 3D editors use it for 3D analysis after capture. For ANY 3D rig its used as a geometric/colormetric/telemetric analysis tool with a Metadata Lumaview that gives you real time reporting. This is used on the rig techs side so that they can more accurately, and timely, correct any kind of misalignments that are found by the SIP. The SIP does not need to be used with our rigs, it can literally be used with all rigs. All it needs is a Dual HD-SDI feed.

On the TS5 (and TS4 and TS2 for that matter) the SIP, through the 3Flex communication protocol, communicates to the rig itself through the SPCs. In real-time as the frame comes in, the SIP does the analysis and sends the correction to the rig. Frame by frame, all in real time. As you do crazy pans or 90º drops or bumpy roads or whatever, the SIP analyzes and sends corrections. As you pull focus, zoom, change convergence or IA, the SIP tells the rig and the lens control how to adjust the angle of the cameras or adjust the setting on the lenses to make sure you are always looking at perfectly aligned images.

This is all the cine side. If you want to discuss the broadcast side and the software we have for that using the SIP, then well that's a very long winded and separate discussion :P
 
Thank you Joey, I'm not into the broadcast stuff... luckily.

However, I have a question I'll send by mail :)
 
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