| Why Li-Ion batteries? |
| These batteries are great! Each NP-battery has fantastic 71 Wh of capacity, is very light in weight and quickly chargeable (I have two IDX Ion-4-Chargers that load up to four batteries at the same time. Unfortunately these chargers are no longer available). As I use a double-battery-compartment I have to change batteries just one time on a typical shooting day, although I use the batteries also for my LED-headlight. With 6 batteries in the equipment I have always enough energy. My new Omega V-Mount-Akkus are even a bit more powerful: 160 Wh from a single battery - unthinkable some years ago. |
| Why LED headights? |
| The future belongs to LED technology: just 11 W of energy consumption has the X-3 Lite for a light output that is comparable to a 35 W halogen bulb lamp. The Bebob Lux-LED 16 makes even "50 W" out of 16 W power. Apart from better energy efficiency the long durability goes for the LEDs.
They have daylight comparable characteristic - that's why there's no need for a CTB-Filter. If you like to shoot under tungsten conditions you will need a CTO-Filter. I prefer a frost filter plus 1/2-CTO: that's the ideal combination for the CC-filter selection "C" at my Digibeta-Camcorders (color temperature 4300 K). The only drawback: the LEDs tend to a slight green tint (especially when dimming). For correction I use a light 1/4 magenta filter. |
| Why "Picture Cache Board"? |
| My two DigitalBetacam-Camcorder are both equipped with a Picture Cache Board. Any video picture transfers a cache before it is recorded on tape. The capacity of the cache is 8 sec. That means: pictures can be recorded even before
the record button was pushed! When the record is stopped, the tape will still run up to 8 sec. It's always possible to start a new record. Another highlight: you can always leave the camera in "SAVE"-mode if you put the picture cache at at least 4 sec. (DVW-970: 1 sec.). Then you are immediately ready to shoot without loss of any picture. Advantage: the protection of the video head is incredible (my experience is that the abrasion came down to 1/5!) The costs of the board will be amortized very soon. The "DVW-970" is additionaly equipped with a single frame function: you can easily create stop-tricks. After 6 sec. of video are buffered in the picture cache the camera will record the pictures on tape. Great thing! |
| Camcorder: |  Professional Disc- Multiformat-Camcorder Sony PDW-700/1 with color viewfinder HDVF-C30WR |
| DIGITALBetacam: SONY DVW-970 and SONY DVW-709 WSP: both with Picture Cache Board and 4:3/16:9 | |
| XDCAM EX/DVCAM: SONY PMW-EX1R, wide-angle-adapter, tripod, Bebob ZOE-EX |
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| DVCAM/DV: SONY DSR-PD 150, wide-angle-adapter, compendium, stereomic, tripod, Bebob ZOE-DVXL |
| Lenses: | 2 x HD-Standard-Zoom-Lenses Fujinon HA 18 x 7,6 |
| 2 x HD-Wideangle-Zoom-Lenses Fujinon HA 13 x 4,5 |
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| Tripods: | Vinten Vision 100 with Sachtler CF Speed Lock HD and Vinten Vision 100 with Vinten Fibertec tripod legs |
| Compendia: | Chrosziel Standard-compendium and Chrosziel wide-angle-compendium with sidewings |
| Filters: | Tiffen Black Pro Mist, Pol, various gradient filters |
| Monitors: | TVLogic LVM-091W (HD-SDI-LCD), Sony PVM-9L3 (SD-Röhre), Sony LMD-650 (SD-LCD) |
| Batteries: | Omega V160, IDX Li-Ion (71 Wh), Cine 60 Battery Belt NiMH |
| Sound: | Mixer: Sound Devices 442 N, SQN-2S, Mics: Sennheiser (MKH-60, MD-441), Lavalliers: 3 x Tram und 3 x Sennheiser, boom: 2 x Ambient Quickpole, windshields: 2 x Rycote |
| Radio Mics : | 2 x Sennheiser diversity pocket transmitter, handheld transm., Plug-On-transm., 2 x Sennheiser ew100 G2-Set |
| Light: | Tungsten: Sachtler 3 x 650 W, Ianiro Gulliver 3 x 300 W, Dedolight 3 x 150 W, Dedolight with Dimmer 150 W |
| Fluorescence Light: Kinoflo Diva Lite 400 |
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| Daylight (HMI): Kobold DLF 400 SES with Chimera VideoPlus-Softbox, IDX X3-Lite (LED-Headlight) LED Headlights: IDX X3-Lite, Bebob Lux-LED 16 |
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| Equipment rental |
I also hire my equipment at low conditions from cameraman to cameraman. That means, you will get well-kept and complete in detail equipment as a set or in components: with personal contact and individually |
| Why XDCAM? |
My latest investment is the SONY camcorder PDW-700/1. It combines a lot of advantages that make it to a future-proof aquirement. On the one hand its mutli-format-abilty: wheather HD or SD, equal if 1080 or 720, wheather "i" (interlaced) or "p" (progressive) - this camcorder handles everything. Additionally this camcorder records so-called "proxy-files" in MPEG-4, that makes storyboard editing on a notebook very easy. The sophisticated workflow convinced in Germany after the broadcast stations WDR (Cologne) and BR (Munich) also other ARD-stations. |
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