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red 6 & 7 night shoot pics online

Very nice. How much did the red camera weigh? Did it feel light on your Steadicam?
 
I had a good friend living off of Clinton street and on my only visit to town back in May of 2001 we were shooting timelapse from near that same location.

It breaks my heart to see what is now missing on that skyline...
 
I wonder what gadget they use to feed the SD monitor on that Master rig...Simple HD-SDI downconverter?

Update: From one of the pictures it looks like a small AJA downconverter mounted in the Reddrive bay of the battery mount. Ahh, 4k>480i composite.....
 
thx lord
 
LAO said:
Very nice. How much did the red camera weigh? Did it feel light on your Steadicam?
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Exact weight, I'm not sure. However, it was certainly heavier than I expected it to be once we got anything on there. Once built, it was actually a very nice weight for flying on a full size rig. Didn't feel light, but didn't feel heavy either. Happy medium.


Anders Holck said:
I wonder what gadget they use to feed the SD monitor on that Master rig...Simple HD-SDI downconverter?

Update: From one of the pictures it looks like a small AJA downconverter mounted in the Reddrive bay of the battery mount. Ahh, 4k>480i composite.....
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Yes, it was an AJA.
 
Anders Holck said:
Ah, mr. Grant. Didn't recognize you from the stills.
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Ha... I'd hope not. It's not me! The operator in those particular photos is Alec Jarnagin. The rig is mine, however. Alec shot the majority of the shots and then handed it off to me to grab a couple more.

More reports to come as we get more pictures back.
 
:nerd: Great, was a little confused though I wasn't wearing my contacts :-)
Will be interesting to see when the first RED shot makes it onto steadishots.org...
 
AftonGrant said:
Ha... I'd hope not. It's not me! The operator in those particular photos is Alec Jarnagin. The rig is mine, however. Alec shot the majority of the shots and then handed it off to me to grab a couple more.

More reports to come as we get more pictures back.
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Alec Jarnagin is a bad ass... he did a 5 min+( I believe) no edit (only until the very end) steadi cam shot on Rescue Me recently w/ smoke, fire, hallway mazes and moveable walls that seemed effortless to execute... Mad Respect!!

... for those that do not know... I do not know him, I just respect his work a great deal.
 
Andrew Benz said:
Alec Jarnagin is a bad ass... he did a 5 min+( I believe) no edit (only until the very end) steadi cam shot on Rescue Me recently w/ smoke, fire, hallway mazes and moveable walls that seemed effortless to execute... Mad Respect!!

... for those that do not know... I do not know him, I just respect his work a great deal.
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Thanks Andrew! I'll pass your comments along to Alec. He'll be glad to hear you're a fan. Alec has actually done three excellent oners in the current season of Rescue Me (one is up on SteadiShots now, the other two will come soon). That's in addition to a ton of other "regular" Steadicam work on the show. Much respect is given to Dennis Leary as well whose idea it was to begin incorporating shots like that into the show. I don't know Dennis personally, but Alec reports he is an extremely professional and camera conscious actor - the type with whom we camera operators enjoy working.

Best Regards,
Afton
 
AftonGrant said:
Thanks Andrew! I'll pass your comments along to Alec. He'll be glad to hear you're a fan. Alec has actually done three excellent oners in the current season of Rescue Me (one is up on SteadiShots now, the other two will come soon). That's in addition to a ton of other "regular" Steadicam work on the show. Much respect is given to Dennis Leary as well whose idea it was to begin incorporating shots like that into the show. I don't know Dennis personally, but Alec reports he is an extremely professional and camera conscious actor - the type with whom we camera operators enjoy working.

Best Regards,
Afton
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Thank you so much Afton... I just moved into a new loft no cable or sat... but I get my fix w/ itunes... the show is amazing and I suggest to everyone to watch it many times... once without sound to pay close attention to the camera work and how it interplays w/ the actors... I learn alot everytime I watch.

Thank you guys very much... pure inspiration.

Cheers,

Andrew Benz
 
Hey Afton!

Those are the shots! What a great way to start the day...

Thanks again Afton for sharing all of this...

Cheers--- Andrew
 
Did you try to fire up the Camera from the Battery on the sled, seems to be a AB Hytron which should be fine with RED. Or would that be to less weight for the master arm ?

Regards
Manuel
 
manuelwenger said:
Did you try to fire up the Camera from the Battery on the sled, seems to be a AB Hytron which should be fine with RED. Or would that be to less weight for the master arm ?

Regards
Manuel
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We were trying to ADD weight which is why we powered with the onboard battery. I imagine this will be how it is primarily flown in the future since with the battery it is a nice weight. Yes, without might be a little too light, but that'll all be operator preference.
 
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