Alex Worster

Panavision LWZs?

Thanks for info Vincent and David. @ Vincent, just wanted to clarify that I'm looking to rent the lenses... does Duclos rent them or are they just a dealer? What about Abel or any other camera houses in the greater LA area? Thanks all!

Easy question... I hope. Where can I find a full set of Zeiss Compact Primes CP.2s in LA or in California in general? Thanks!

Need to sync an SR3 Advanced to a regular old CRT TV. Arri makes an ESU-1, will that work? If so how do I use it? I found a manual online but it doesn't explain its operation well. Any other ideas aside from the ECU-1? Thanks!

I'm just finished the first week of a feature I'm the B cam 2nd/digital loader on and I'm encountering some hard drive problems. Production bought 4 3TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro drives and after the first week only 2 remain standing which has me very concerned. One seems to have a bad FW800 port out of the box and one seems to have developed a bad FW800 port after 5 days of use. Long story short I'd like to know what types of hard drives you all recommend I have production buy? Which ones do I stay away from? The ones production initially bought had no eSATA port so I've been FW800 daisy chaining the whole deal. That said, I would love to have the next round of drives we get have an eSATA port as I have a Firmtek expresscard34 dual eSATA card that would probably make the transfer time a little faster. Thanks!

Awesome, thanks a lot for the info Deepak. Anybody else work on any recent Indian/Bollywood films and know if this is the way things still work?

Simple question, what is the hierarchy within an Indian camera crew? In the States it DP>OP>1st (focus puller)>2nd>Loader and across the pond they have the clapper loader but what about it India? Searched google, no luck so thanks to anybody out there that has the answer.

Meh, things are going pretty well for camera, we've got almost everything we need to our job well except for a lift gate on our truck... my back is sore.

Damn, I work on the 19th but if I were there I'd kick that ball so hard, I'd probably kick a homerun.

Thanks. Sorry for the poor english in my post. Ugh, tired posting.

I'm working a feature coming up and I've will be confronted with several scenes were the DP wants to shoot at some television sets. We'll be shooting most of the project at 23.98 fps w/ a 180 deg shutter. I've never done this with an f900 and I was wondering if anybody knows if I will have roll bar issues? If so, what is the best way to phase to phase this bar out? Can I do it in camera or HAVE to sync the TV to the correct fps (which will most likely be impossible due to budget reason)? Thanks!

So, I've been asked last minute to come help out tomorrow with some camera tests for a feature I might be 1sting. The original idea was to shoot with a Sony f900/Digizoom combination but now I guess the producers are putting some pressure on to test the Sony EX3 so that's what we're going to be doing tomorrow. I've worked plenty with the f900/Digizoom combo and am happy with it from an assistant's POV but I am fairly new to the EX3 so in short I'm looking for some advice on things to test for and discuss with the DP and production. Likes, dislikes, things to look out for, things that the EX3 might do better (if any), any help would be awesome!

Will it be an evil BBQ?

I was working with the Arri 35-3 today and will be for the next couple days and I've got a small easy question... is there any way to clear the shutter to check the gate without opening up the door to spin the movement? If there is I would be stoked to know, if not it would be great just to get a definitive "No, you have to open up the door which sucks but it is what it is". Thanks!

Thanks for the offer, I may have to take you up on that. I'll give you a call when we lock the dates.