Davo McConville

Can confirm – setup is the best.

Ha! ? Well, I bow down to the great professional metric of number of posts on a cinematography forum. If you didn't read the thread properly, take a look at where Phil completely hijacks a thread in which we were trying to help someone with a question. If you don't have anything constructive to say and you rant about what's bothering you instead, that has a name: trolling.

If you have something to say about the specifics of which drive to use, contribute to the conversation that way. Your lazy slandering in lieu of helpful constructive advice speaks volumes about you. I’m not even going to get into the specifics of any of it, but you freely admit your own prejudices are showing. You know nothing about my or the others’ qualifications or backgrounds. No place for this on this forum.

Your attitude is incredibly rude here phil. You make sweeping generalisations and assumptions that are not justifiable or helpful. How dare you tell a fellow user to “learn your trade”. your own post contains a number of inaccuracies or unhelpful notes so you’re not exactly showing how it’s done.

If you can show me a bus powered drive that offers speeds close to a wall-powered drive I would be very happy to know about it!

Hi phil, with respect the computer’s year and therefore generation is enough for the discussion. Processor and ram aren’t in play here in this discussion: types of ports are. nothing is blindingly obvious, we’re trying to help someone who may not be a propellorhead. Bus powered drives *do* have a major performance cap compared to their psu-powered counterparts. Compare a LaCie 7200rpm drive inside a rugged and inside a psu drive and you’ll find a huge performance difference

Ah then a power stop is your friend! DM me and I’ll send a photo of an inexpensive little setup. All bus drives will be about the same, sadly SSD - should be a lot faster, especially on USBc and even better thunderbolt 3!

Ah cool – yes Silverstack is a $$$$$$$$$ beast Message me if you ever need any other help! I don't look at the forums too much but would see a message

Ah I'm so sorry, I didn't see the date on your post. Thought you were still pre-production! Sorry I couldn't say anything sooner. Lacies are the main bottleneck so for next time, you know! Silverstack – you finding it good? I've not bitten the $900 bullet yet, did you get a short term project license?

NACHO I MISS U You'd think there'd be guild of some kind. Have you ever been to Hatton Gardens? It's the part of London with all the jeweller's shops. It's been there forever. Maybe go down and ask them if any of them sell tools, there might be one dealer who supplies all the jewellers...

Hey professional DIT here Don't cascade copy, that makes multiple backups pointless on one level (sure, you're protected if you physically lose one, but if there's a bad copy on your first generation, that gets copied to all other drives). I know that Hedge etc will verify that one copy, but it's not worth taking the risk with any footage, IMO The quickest solution would be: • throw any Lacie Ruggeds in the rubbish bin. That's an extreme statement and I appreciate that you might not have much in the way of budget. But the bottleneck of those drives is MASSIVE. Get G-Tech USB-C drives. You need drives with a power supply, because Ruggeds or similar run power and data through the same cable. Massively slow. The even quicker version (for transcoding) would be to buy 2x G-Techs for your backups, and have 1x SSD scratch drive (say a 1TB drive). Back up to all 3, then run your transcodes from and to the SSD. Agree with Robin – Hedge is excellent. Would definitely recommend it over Shotput. Silverstack is amazing but even I'm not sure if I can afford it right now (and it's a steep learning curve) Hope that helps somewhat. Shout if you need more!

Hi Stefan, is this still for sale? Thanks

Hi Stefan, did this sell? Many thanks!

It appears that when it's powered on, it runs forward and then possibly backwards, if that clue is of any help!

Hello all, My 1014 XL S, previously fully working, has now started... and won't stop. It is in 'R', Running mode (not RL, Running Lock), but it runs out the cartridge as soon as it is started. I had hired the camera out, it wasn't a problem before this hire so I'm wondering if something could have happened on the shoot. I know that switching R / RL when the camera is running is a bad idea (per the manual). Does anyone know what the issue might be, and how tough a repair could be? THANKS! Here's a link showing the operation: https://imgur.com/JXmkoKo

Hey all, As the title suggests, I'd like to buy a CM171, DM250 or BM210 – a true 10 bit monitor with HD-SDI input. Ideally in London but EU would be great. Thanks all, Davo

Canon 11-165mm PL Mount Super 16 Format T2.5 Amazing Zoom Lens Good shape lens, amazing technically. Includes hard case. £3500 (EU) or $4200 (US) – I am based in London but will be in New York soon so can ship it from there if that helps. Technical Specs Focal length 11-165mm Max aperture (T) 2.5 Close focus 3' Image Circle 16mm Front diameter 95mm Weight 2268g Length 190mm Mount PL Mount

Thanks both! That makes sense Gregg, thanks

Thanks Joseph – I know where the image is from, I just wanted to know if the flightcase itself was something off-the-shelf or if it is a DIT world custom build

1x 12.6cm Half Chrome/Grey ball 1x soft protective bag for ball, 1x 200mm carbon fiber tubular handle with 1/4 unc (small camera size) 1x Peli Storm 2306 case with protective foam, External Dimensions Length 46cm, Width 21cm, Depth 17cm kit weight 3 kg Used on one shoot. Mint condition. £300 (RRP £432)

Evening all, Can anyone identify this flightcase? It may well be a custom build but if not I'd love to know, looks like a great computer solution. Thanks

I have a couple of old Vinten tripods, and I'd like to kit them out with heads and spreaders (currently just the legs). Can anyone tell me how exactly how to measure the bowl size? The measurement across the interior is about 85mm. So does the measurement need to be taken from the ring around the top? Which would be more like 100mm? Or am I looking at a couple of 75mm tripods? Thanks!

Evening all, Can anyone identify this flightcase? It may well be a custom build but if not I'd love to know, looks like a great computer solution. Thanks

Hey Larry, did you ever figure out things around this lens / adapter? We're trying to fit a 12-240mm Angeniuex in Arri Bayonet mount to the Birns and Sawyer Arri S mount extender. And the bayonet wings are stopping it. Is there a simple way to remove the wings from the lens do you know? Thanks!