Todd Terry
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This is the most obvious thing ever and I almost feel silly for even asking… but are you sure you are loosing the knob on the Kino fitting before seating it down on the C-stand’s baby pin (so that it seats all the way), and then tightening it?
I know I know… that’s painfully obvious, but my only conceivable explanation for that. The only other thing I can think of would be that the bolt on the knob is too short to grab and lock on the pin, but why would it possibly be?? No explanation for that.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Well they are, obviously, counting on no one challenging them on it as the amounts would rarely be worth anyone’s time.
For the customer, like me, the eight or nine days’ interest on $9,000 would not be worth pursuing… it would only be a few dollars. For Intuit, it’s a different story… multiply that times millions of customers and it’s a big chunk of change they are pocketing.
If you’ll remember way back, the early days of PayPal were totally free, that now-present 3% fee was non-existent. PayPal made its profit by holding on to money for 12 hours between payment and releasing it. Only TWELVE HOURS!… which seems like nothing, but was enough to make them bazillions of dollars.
As I said the damages are so small no one individual would tackle Intuit over it. But a class action suit might…..
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
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Dang… read those employee reviews. WOWSER.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Multiple ones flying indoors like that is even more impressive… gotta have pilots good enough to fly without GPS.
I’m a decent flyer… but am pretty reliant on the satellites, for sure.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Slightly interesting side story…
As luck would have it, we are in the middle of production of a marketing video for an area research university, and right now one of their particular programs does a lot of work with RC helicopters as well as robots and such… learning about circuits and logistics and programming and all that jazz.
They have a BUNCH of Phantoms… probably 15 or 20 or more. I didn’t count them, but there was a whole room full of them.
So, we go out to get some footage of them flying. We were taken to a big concrete pad that had what was probably a 30-foot tall chain link fence around it (looked like it might have been a tennis court in a previous life). And… a net stretched across the top.
This one kid we were shooting is a grad student, works with these things every day, and has been RC flying since he was a child… he could practically write his name in the air with the helicopter without even thinking about it. But he (and all the others) are only allowed to fly inside this enclosure… the university’s legal eagles absolutely forbid them to “free fly” at all anywhere on campus. Period.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
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[Mark Suszko] “…if you as a professional class of people can’t demonstrate self-regulation…”
Which, in so many different types of businesses, has worked sooo well in the past.
Sadly, not.
On a side note, I was down at the gulf coast for several days last week. I had my little quadcopter with me (DJI Phantom 2 Vision+), but was a bit too chicken to fly it except a little bit in an inland parking lot. I had envisioned all this cool seaside shooting… but then I remembered how every beach shoot we ever did left us picking sand out of the gear for weeks no matter how careful we were to keep things clean (how did those Baywatch production crews ever get their deposits back??). I didn’t want to risk an unplanned landing and getting even one grain of sand or salt in the wrong place, especially since I’m on my second Phantom and fourth camera unit/gimbal. The gimbals seem awfully susceptible to the least little thing, and I didn’t want to regret the flight for a few minutes’ worth of fun.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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My one gift in life is recognizing voiceover artists, but I don’t know that guy.
If no one here recognizes him, best bet is to hit the ol’ Googling machine, track down the client, find someone there willing to tell you who their ad agency is, and ask them.
I did exactly that once when I really liked the voice on a national Marie Callender’s spot, but he was someone I had no clue who was. Marie Callender’s corporate PR was happy to tell me their agency, and the agency not only gave me the artist’s name, but the phone number for his LA agent.
Might not always be that easy, but in this case it was.
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Mark Suszko] “That’s not a belt on the front – it’s a kind of brake, to help keep a little tension on the film supply reel”
That’s a little odd… every mag I’ve ever used or seen before had internal tensioners, usually little spring-loaded gadgets inside that (barely) pushed against the feed core. But a lot of these older cameras had what some people might think of as “creative” engineering, so it’s not surprising. Most of the cameras I’ve owned through the years had coaxial mags (feed and takeup side by side) which worked completely differently, but even the couple I’ve had with linear mags still just used a spring “brake” on the feed side. Oh well, live and learn.
[Mark Suszko] “know of no affordable source for the blank film and processing anymore.”
Processing is harder (the lab I used to use no longer soups film, only telcines now), but it still can be had. It just usually has to be shipped off now, which is a pain. I think you can still order stock from Eastman Kodak, they still keep their filmstocks listed as a product, not sure. I still have a couple of drawers full of shortends and recans in my fridge. I’d happily give it to anyone who would actually use it. Most of it is 35mm but there might be a roll or two of 16mm.
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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I’m not sure what I was thinking… the belt wouldn’t show on the pic you embedded above, my brain wasn’t fully in gear. The belt goes on the other side (the “starboard” side of the camera). It goes around a pulley on the rear (takeup) core of the mag and disappears into the camera body. I seem to recall some that actually had a belt on the front (feed) core as well… but I can’t really envision what that would have been for. If you display the camera oriented so that you see the viewfinder side, you won’t need the belt. I’m SOO glad I brought it all up (insert eyeroll here).
I needed to replace a couple of viewfinder cups on my 35mm cameras (when I still had them) a few years ago… I was able to find suitable replacements cheap from Edmund Scientific (or whatever that has morphed into these days). Used to be such a cool place.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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If you make a fake one, don’t forget the take-up reel belt… it is missing on the photo above. Something like black shock cord would look authentic.
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
