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Tom Turley

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  1. I'm really interested in this too - is there anyone else out there (preferably UK based) who can do this modification for Zeiss Contax. I've got a set 25/35/50/85/100 I'd love to have worked over!
  2. Does anyone know who in London would be best to ask about getting a 6x6" cut down to 4x4"?
  3. I've not had one up on a projector for comparison but when I did play with one about a year ago, optically, it looked very sharp, all the way to the edges. But the build quality made me think it might have a limited lifespan in the field...
  4. Also, these buttons are all assignable - and can be switched off... It can be a bit annoying but by choosing carefully what you assign to those buttons it ceases to be an issue.
  5. I shy away from labelling myself a DIT for precisely Josh's 2nd point -- I'm not a computer nerd. I sell myself more as an AC/Red Tech. Generally I encourage clients to bring someone from their post team to sit at the laptop and dump over the footage, make redundant copies and check the data's integrity. I've done it myself but I can't downgrade someone's quicktime in 3 secs because they haven't done it when I asked them to, and I don't feel confident that when a computer kicks off I can sort it in minutes. I can teach them what they need to know quite quickly if they then have a couple of days and some red footage to run tests with prior to the shoot. The camera however, I have been working with for months and on a lot of different jobs and tests. When she kicks off, I do know how to solve it quickly. I can answer DOPs questions as to how it might react if you do this or that. I know every menu inside out, have gained a reasonable instinct for knowing when a CF card is going to run out when I'm not near the camera etc. So this is the system I prefer:- to have one man dedicated to his computer managing the data. He should never have cause to leave his chair, so he can be permanently supervising his data transfers. Then to have the AC/Tech running the media to him, ensuring that the 'digimags' are swapped properly and the right one goes to the right place safely. --clearly between the two of them they are responsible for the 'rushes' safeguarding.-- Then the AC/Tech is also on hand to skip through the menus quickly, solve problems relating to the camera's (occasionally bad) behaviour, build the camera at the top of the day, look after batteries, lenses, filters etc as normal. So basically I agree utterly with points 1 and 3, but I think 2 should be delegated elsewhere, because I believe that for the data's complete security, the DIT(?) should be with the computer at all times. Tom Turley AC/RedTech London turleyt@googlemail.com Josh, I would like to hear about your workflow? Also, sorry but I've babysat the RED with Genesis, 35mm, 16mm and F900r+Pro35 all side by side! And on a separate test against the D20. Do I win anything?!
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