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Christopher Santucci

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  1. Thanks. That IS some very clean footage, I'd say. Nice. .
  2. Anyone know what "Treme" is shot on? Definitely not film, I'd say. .
  3. You could get away with hand holding on a calm day and also having a large aircraft helps. I've shot smooth footage hand held from small planes and small helicopters. Either way, definitely have them remove a door on the aircraft and use a harness for yourself and safety tie the camera to the aircraft. Something like this is generally fine as a stabilizer: http://www.ken-lab.com/ .
  4. http://cgi.ebay.com/DIGITAL-TIMER-REMOTE-C...=item1e5b70b12b .
  5. You could just use a 240 volt 5K globe with the 240 volts/30 amps coming from the dryer outlet. .
  6. Just make sure you don't use any gain with the HVX200, or you'll really regret it. .
  7. Try the Cokin filters. They're cheap and very good optical quality. .
  8. Just a hunch, but I'm guessing the main issue is with this...: Korean Macro 35mm F2.8 .
  9. Yeah, certainly I've noticed zooms are generally slower than primes. I suppose having a fast zoom comes with a price (and shooting with a fast zoom wide open). .
  10. I've noticed with certain zoom lenses there is vignetting as the lens reaches the far end of the focal range when shooting wide open. I used to think this was inherent in cheaper zoom lenses but I notice it happening with a nice Super Wide Fujinon I used recently on an HDX900. Is there a name for this kind of vignetting which appears to be caused (I guess) by some design limitation within the optics of the lens? I've never noticed this happening with zoom lenses on film cameras, only tape cameras. .
  11. It always blows me away how little sensitivity a crew has for actors doing scenes. I see crew ALL the time just standing there out in the open staring at actors while the camera rolls. Noise is another major distraction to actors that I find crew not thinking about often enough. When you're literally surrounded by 30 or 40 people and you need to transport yourself to another place and time while being another person and crew are walking around the set, who could blame a guy for tweaking?
  12. Here's a little background. Of course, we don't know (do we?) how long they'd been at it, how many takes were wasted, etc, etc. http://defamer.com/5144753/audio-christian...vation-meltdown
  13. I also have a few Western Digital 160 GB Passport drives that have been working great even though I have to use a USB hub with them because my older G4 Powerbook doesn't have high enough bus voltage. I've been using the "Pro Edition" triple interface Western Digital Mybook drives which have been working great. .
  14. Wow. That is nice. It's really touching and very, very nicely done. .
  15. Yeah, you just have to relax and remember to always breath. Also, if you lengthen the distance between the 2 points of contact of the camera between your hands and shoulder, that will also smooth out your movement. Watch Pieces of April if you want to see a great example of jerky handheld work where the operator obviously shot HH shots with the camera literally in her hand. If you increase the forward and rearmost mass of the rig, that will also dampen sudden jerky movement. .
  16. I have yet to us P2 cards in my A, and instead have relied on the FS-100 completely. A few drawbacks about of the FS-100 are: 1) Cooling fan noise. 2) Limited clip duration (about 2 minutes max for 1080.) 3) Can be cumbersome to mount or be tethered to. .
  17. You can download virtually anything now. I even saw a feature I shot on a torrent site and laughed my ass off because the film is mediocre at best. I have a friend who got a deal with a tiny indie record label for a music CD he produced and of course his whole CD showed up on a torrent site inside of a month of its release. This is a guy who probably will sell, at best, a thousand copies of his CD, and yet there it is - for free. I still think there's a decent percentage of folks who will deliberately buy a DVD of a film they really like, (even if they downloaded it), in order to support the artists who made it and to have a high quality copy. When/if internet service providers start charging for bandwidth, maybe it will effect this kind of downloading... .
  18. CCD's don't like warm light. You'll always get a better image with cooler light. How much better, I don't know, but I'm sure someone has performed some tests somewhere along the way. .
  19. I use the Milwaukee 18 tpi "The Torch" blades in my Bosch cordless reciprocating saw and they work like a charm. .
  20. You don't need 3-phase mains power for any lighting that I'm aware of. Two hot legs from mains is fine depending upon the service supplied and your cabling/distro and what your total load is. If you had a plant, you might want to balance the load across all 3 phases and of course make sure each of the 2 hots from the mains will give you the current you need.
  21. The aspect ratio is actually 3.8:1 and looks a bit distorted. .
  22. Nice. Good work. Nice composition. I think the aspect ratio is off (too wide.) I like the EKU jab, but it might be funnier (if that's important to you) if you left it at: "It accepted my money... of course." .
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