Steve Wargo
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Rumor has it that Robert Rodriguez chrome plated the sides of one of his F-900s.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Paul
I think you might be thinking of Michael Bravin, from Band Pro.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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The correct process is to black balance once in each of the gain positions. We use 0, 6, and 9. Before you fix it, make sure you record some footage and pull a screen shot to send to your sales rep for clarification later should the block become unusable after the unit is out of warranty. If you have something recorded to tape, that could work as proof. We had a pixel group blow out on a DSR-500 right in the middle of a Kenny Rogers concert and we had it fixed in less than 60 seconds.
This works on all Sony 2/3″ digital cameras.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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I shot race cars for ESPN for many years and the most we would go is 125. Even then, that would some times look stuttered. There is no standard answer. Cars running at different speeds will look different. When we used studio type cameras, they were always at the normal setting.
You will need to experiment with this one. Here is something to try. Find a car with an exposed fan. Start the engine and shoot the fan blade. As your shooting, change the rate and watch the result.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Thomas
We have a Sony DSR-500 2/3″ 16×9 camera with a $10K lens on it. When we install the lens from our F-900, it is an amazing difference. SO, when someone says that the glass doesn’t make much of a difference, I ask that they take their rig to someone who has an HD lens and a good monitor and see for them selves.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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I feel bad for the newbies who think that they can get into a professional editing machine for such a low price. 10 years ago, we paid $35,000 and more for a Discreet Edit* system with real time 3D and a whopping 36Gb of SCSI storage. Now, you can buy a top level FCP with Terabytes of storage and fast processors for a lousy 10 grand or so. Ask the Avid guys what they’ve been paying for their systems all these years and then quit whining. And please, don’t tell us you’re not whining.
You probably drive a Yugo, eat at MacDonald’s and see movies at the dollar theater.
We have 5 seats of FCP, two with X-Serve raids. Get serious. This is a BUSINESS, not a hobby.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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You might want to have someone come in and do your initial setups. We shot two feature films in 2005 with a F-900/3 and never touched a setting beyond the first day. We set up scene files with a daytime exterior, night exterior, an interior with sunlight streaming in and a room that was all tungsten lit. We know the camera inside and out and could have adjusted it constantly but after this initial setup day, we only switched the built in scene files.
The only thing we changed later was when the director decided that one scene would look better as a day for night, which we did in post. Had I known earlier, we probably would have done a set up for that.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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So Pat, go back and read your post. Certainly looks like a couple of new guys to me. Whether you are or aren’t, your original post smacked of newby. Have a nice day and don’t forget to wear those headphones.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Thanks Ty
It seems like Pat Ford is a new guy on the block and does not understand that your eyes stay plastered to the monitor and that headphones are to be worn every second that recording is in progress. He also seems to miss the point that the way to avoid fixing the problem is to avoid having it happen in the first place. We’ve all had the unfortunate happen and if we have a way to repeat something, we do.
In 2005, we shot an HDCAM segment for a TV show, at a nature conservatory in Flagstaff Arizona with Senator John McCain. When we were done and the Senator had moved on, my audio guy tells me that there were a bunch of dropouts during the interview on the Senators wireless. When I asked him why he didn’t say anything, he said that he didn’t want to interrupt. So, he doesn’t interrupt and I have no sound. We had to pull it all from the other persons mic. It sucked. I didn’t wear headphones that day because I was taking cues from the producer. Lesson learned again.
My reply, Pat, was aimed at your future, not your past.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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They write it. This is somethung that you want nothing to do with, unless you were a lawyer before getting into production.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!