REDUSER'S own Dylan Macleod, wins CSC Award!!

[Brent J. Craig]

...those wicked SWIT batteries that split in two for safe air transport... this would have to be huge for you guys since you are globetrotting and regulations tend to get interpreted differently depending on the mood and machinations of the airport personnel.

Yes, we will be traveling with the Swit's, but my worry is that when they are broken in two they would be counted as TWO batteries, hence using up your two batteries per person limit! I guess we will find out. I am picturing us being forced to use car batteries in some countries and will bring the cables to make that work in a pinch!

People have discovered (the hard way) that those Swit's are coded somehow so you always have to put the halves of the same battery together or they won't work! No mixing and matching!

 

[Chris Parker]

are you simply NOT ALLOWED to travel with RED batteries? if not, can they be shipped?

curious....

 

[John DeBoer]

Yes, we will be traveling with the Swit's, but my worry is that when they are broken in two they would be counted as TWO batteries, hence using up your two batteries per person limit! I guess we will find out. I am picturing us being forced to use car batteries in some countries and will bring the cables to make that work in a pinch!
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Hey Crewpix:

The batteries, when spit in two, have under the 8 grams of Lithium, so you are able to carry as many as weight will allow! We just had several crews come back (we send them out with the ATA paperwork) from Asia, with one assistant hand carrying on 26 (13x2) batteries. No problem, and all legal.

 

[Brent J. Craig]

The batteries, when spit in two, have under the 8 grams of Lithium... (we send them out with the ATA paperwork)

Nice! That's why you guys rock.

BJC

 

[Dylan Macleod CSC]

No problem Dylan, usually the work that I have mixed feelings about tend to connect with others in ways that I was unsure about... but of course I am nowhere near you level of skill sets, though very happy to be in a great situation to get better, make mistakes, learn and repeat. (My backgroud is in news photography, sports, wildlife, docs and regional/national commercials. The more I learn, bench mark others works, read and perform, the more I realize what a beautiful lifelong journey is ahead of me).

Dylan, will you and Crew Pix be using SIModified Reds for your round the world Documentary. If so, I would love to hear more about your interaction with that system. I am very excited by Sim Videos products, their intuitive design for the operator and the ease of use /adjustment while operating and light weight aks is too much to pass up.

Thanks again for the responses and I always learn something new.

As crewpix mentioned SIM have been 100% behind us since I first mentioned this project back in January. The timing has worked out very well as my camera is due to arrive in the next week or so!

SIM have promised to have my MODS ready for the shoot (right guys? :biggrin: )

Although, my camera will hopefully be sitting unused in its case waiting to perform "backup" duty...in the remote possibility of a camera failure.

Travelling is going to be tricky, but as you can read here, SIM seem to have the battery problem licked. And they also seem to have a "hot swappable" battery mount worked out!

Now if I could only convince Viewfactor to get me one of their on/off remotes BEFORE may...we'd be laughin'

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com