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Simon Vacher, a young, keen, talented cinematographer and widelife/documentary cameraman, spent 25 weeks over three years on five separate trips filming on Ascension Island and St. Helena, the UK Caribbean Territories, Pitcairn & Henderson Island, Falklands, Antarctica, South Georgia and the Chagos Archipelago for a television documentary about the UK Overseas Territories, ‘Britain’s Treasure Islands’…
SWIT’s new S-8U63 BP-U Series Battery is an ideal replacement for Sony’s BP-U compatible series, as it offers both D-Tap and USB outputs which allows for a range of low power draw applications such as camera top-lights and video transmitters to be powered from the same battery pack. It even means you could charge your…
Simon Vacher Film has just pre-ordered one in the first batch of the long awaited Sony PXW-FS7, a Super35 large-single-sensor camera capable of recording up to 4K video with slow-motion capabilities up to 150fps in Full-HD, for shoulder-mounted applications like documentary shooting, news, wildlife and direct cinema. It will be a revolutionary asset to the…
[row] [one_half] It’s not everyday that I meet a supplier who goes that extra mile in order to find me the most specialist camera kit that can be harder to find than an ant on a blade of grass on a 100-acre lawn! TNP Broadcast have done just that. Sure, suppliers want our business and…
Simon talks about the Compass15 Solo 3-Stage Miller tripod and the challenges faced filming in Antarctica & the sweltering volcanic beaches of Ascension Island for InBroadcast Digital Magazine [pageview url=”http://europe.nxtbook.com/nxteu/lesommet/inbroadcast_201309/index.php?startid=46#!” height=”800px” scrolling=”yes”]
Simon talks about the Compass15 Solo 3-Stage Miller tripod and the challenges faced filming in Antarctica & the sweltering volcanic beaches of Ascension Island for Miller [pageview url=”http://www.millertripods.com/sharpshooters_details.html?type=story&id=203″ height=”800px” scrolling=”yes”]
Here’s a photo of the EX and the nanoFlash set up on the hotshot of the EX1. The same kind of workflow that Frozen Planet and Top Gear have been using. A good setup, though a bit cumbersome for those nippy hand held shots, especially with the battery Velcro’ed to the side. We will see.…
Took delivery of the nanoFlash and a second hand EX1 today for our documentary. Time will tell on the use of this neat little device. We are set for 4:2:2 but it’s a pain in the bum when you can’t get hold of the BBC DQ group.. Does one budding cameraman shoot in 25p or…
Production is now going ahead for the short glow-worm documentary I had ideas on a few years ago. I’ve started the draft of what the documentary will cover, and also made a few artistic concepts on how I see the various graphics sketches coming to life. The main problem for filming has been how…