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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Recent pics...

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Yeah...it was way back in 2005 during King Kong that he had shed nearly 70 pounds I think. If I recall, he had "dropped the burgers and opted for muesli and yogurt instead", and I presume LOADS of exercise. He looks fantastic and glad to see hes keeping the weight off...I mean look how easily he's holding up that rig :)
 
Yeah good for PJ. Cause he wasn't just overweight he looked bad. At the Oscars during ROTK the exertion of walking up to the stage had him soaked in sweat!

Back on topic, I don't understand that jib picture. It looks like the rig is connected just below the camera, so what is that massive tripod head hanging below for?
 
Lee Saxon said:
Yeah good for PJ. Cause he wasn't just overweight he looked bad. At the Oscars during ROTK the exertion of walking up to the stage had him soaked in sweat!

Back on topic, I don't understand that jib picture. It looks like the rig is connected just below the camera, so what is that massive tripod head hanging below for?
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Unlike North America - other countries usually prefer bowl-head instead of flat Mitchell... It is so much easier to level. I shoot bowl whenever I can...

:) Peter
 
In film school, I used a ball head all the time for my 16mm cameras and when I started shooting features, I wondered why they weren't used... so I got a ball head for my 35mm Panaflex...

And learned why ball heads aren't used for heavy 35mm cameras. I could not tighten the head enough to keep it from slipping when I tilted the camera around. I soon discovered it was a lot easier to level a flat-based Mitchell head when the camera is really heavy, because at least when you're adjusting the level with the legs, the heavy camera isn't loose on the head, unlike when you loosen a ball head to level it.
 
I don't think that's a jib. Isn't that just the operator's grip?

Mighty spindly jib arm.


EDIT: Oh. Jib is going down to the right. lol. Yeah. Ok he isn't superman after all.
 
Jackson_Jib.jpg


It's called "Jackson Jib" with RED1 and O'Connor 2575 “D” fluid head.
 
Damn, Jim. You tease. I thought it was about Scarlet too.

Still cool pictures though. I know he lost weight during King Kong but he wasn't THAT skinny during King Kong. I'm impressed, and I just want to lose like 30 lbs and I can't even do that.
 
Last time i did a rig similar to this one was to achieve a Matrix bullet-time style shot using the three synchronized plates as camera projected textures on a rotoscoped 3d model ... maybe this isn't the case but the system works very well :)
 
Hi res background plate allowing camera movement during shooting of foreground plate.
Perhaps to allow hand held movement of camera inside a dambuster's cockpit (which is similar aspect ratio)
If so I wonder if front projection and cockpit on a gimbal is being considered..

Mike Brennan
 
Bill Anderson said:
It's 6D. 2D per camera. Graeme can probably verify the math: 3x2=
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Since

1 camera = 2D
2 cameras = 3D,

we can calculate that The number of cameras required equals 2 to the power of (dimension minus 1), and thus

4 cameras = 4D
8 cameras = 5D

(3 cameras would give you roughly 2.59D, proving that Jackson is experimenting with fragmentary dimensions.)
 
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:yikes:

Aaron Newsome said:
no one should be allowed to rack up that many red cameras next to each other. it's just not fair to the rest of us who can't afford one and can't buy a scarlet because there are none yet.

that three camera setup is mocking me right now. let me take another look at it.... yup. it's still mocking me.
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God, I thought I was the only one to think that!

P.S.: Yes Peter seems to have lost a lot of weight. Then he found it again and now he carries it around on his shoulder... still, I liked him chubby! :)
 
Background of the jib pic is a coirsair aircraft, location looks like the interior of the Old Stick and Rudder Company hanger in NZ.



Mike Brennan
 
Iannis Holwech said:
The 3 camera rig might be for a Panoramic project.
Such a project was just finished in Norway for the North Cape Panoramic short.

Shot on;
3 x Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 HD cameras.
3 x Nikon D3 for timelapses.
and a RED One.
5760x1080 on a 19,5 x 3,8m 180˚ screen.

Some notes on the PP Here!

Some more pictures and text via google translate.
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WOAH! That looks amazing! Northern lights and all. Did you work on it? What a shame that probably won't travel. I'd love to see something that wide. I remember seeing the remade Napoleon complete with three camera triptych. Blew my mind.
 
Judging by the plane in the background, my money would be on 'The Dam Busters'

LINK
 
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