Matthew Romanis
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The low temperatures will effect the battery life. Expect a loss of efficiency of around 20%, could be less or more depending upon how you store the batteries on the day.
After the camera has been exposed to the cold for a length of time,be careful about bringing it into warm and humid environments (such as crowded restaurants/bars, hotel rooms), condensation will form around switch gear and could conceivably get into the camera and cause issues due to corrosion at a later stage. Condensation on the lens is no fun either. -
Hi Noah,
Rule was probably the wrong word to use, more “the thing done” instead. (“as a rule” here means “Generally speaking”, one of those language region things.)There are always deals to be struck with clients, but to expect a weekly rate without disclosing that wish in the initial negotiating is a bit rich.
Don’t forget this is a world wide forum, and “This economy” is not the case all through the world. Believe it or not, some regions outside the States are not anticipating a crunch, for the foreseeable it’s business as usual.
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When you engage a builder to construct a house or do a renovation, does he charge only 3 or 4 days for his hammer? Don’t think so.
The weekly rate concessions were a mechanism to make longer rentals more attractive and affordable when the individual day rates were high, how much have your day rates changed in reflection of cost increases and CPI over the last 10 years? Not much I guess.
As a rule, owner operators don’t do weekly rates, we already are an attractive price.
Put a rental daily rate on all the gear you have, compare it to your daily charge and demonstrate the difference to the scammer…..er…. I mean producer. -
I’ve had great success at using these < .” target=”_blank”>https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10821>.
Some people will rubbish them, but having sent around 30 of them to individual clients all over the world I’ve had no issues.
As far as the postal/courier service go’s, I don’t believe there is any difference in the Quality of delivery unless you use a consigned document specialist, but very expensive.
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I guess it depends on how much you value the film style gamma curve vs the video gamma curve.
The nicest thing about the Varicam has always been the amount of latitude written into how the knee and gamma curves are set up. The 2000, and the 3000 to a lesser degree, just aren’t in the same league.
We have both a Varicam (f model) and an HPX 3000, and whilst the DPRS setting in the 3000 is interesting, the Varicam still has an edge. Resolution though is a total win to the 3000 for obvious reasons, but overall pleasing images are still to be had from the Varicam.
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Hi Drew,
I should be around next week, shooting in town for once.
Where are you based? Seems like you are up all night if you’re in the states, or are you like me, on the leading side of world (date and daylight that is).
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The protect switch on the cards of course.
The adapter does have a mode switch on it for MAC (1) or PC (2).
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Hi Brian,
You will need this adapter <https://www.duel-systemsadapters.com/?productid=DP-0001>.
There are some drivers to get, depending upon your version of OSX, and P2 drivers for he MAC from Panasonic.
Always make sure that you slide the protect switch to “on” when you insert the cards into the adapter when attached to the MAC, finder writes a directory file that can corrupt some of the data on the card.
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Hi Andrew,
It’s the pixel/line count that makes the main difference between HD and SD (1920×1080 vs 720×540 NTSC, 576 for PAL).
What you are trying to do is more of an A/V display thing than an editing issue.
Before you go any further you must find out what the university is going to use to “play” the files, is it PC or MAC. That makes a big difference in how you proceed from now.
You have to make a choice over uncompressed files vs compressed files, uncompressed is high quality but requires the play back computer to fast enough to handle the data flow, uncompressed is easier processor wise but problems arise when the playback computer has a different codec set.
There are enough incompatibility issues between MAC and PC still to make this a major issue for you if you don’t know what you are doing.
So solve that one first then we work out the best way to go forward.
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If you play back using QT and maintain the same frame size, then yes it should work. You will need to make sure that the computer you are playing back from is enabled with the same ability and codecs as the machine you originate on. No use using a codec that doesn’t exist on the replay machine.
Conduct a simple test to validate this, and try various codecs to see what works best. Maintain the 1080 frame size and all should work well.
Are you playing back from a Mac?
Matthew.