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Hurricane Rig Wins Black Diamond Best of Show Award at NAB

The Genus Hurricane 3D rig, which I designed has picked up a Black Diamond Best of Show Award at NAB. I’m really amazed and flattered by this. We were presented with the award today, it really made my day… off … Continue reading

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Two PMW-F3′s used on 3D Cinema Commercial.

I got back late last night from a big budget cinema commercial shoot where I was working with a pair of F3′s on a Hurricane Rig. All went very well and the DoP, (Denzil Armour-Brown)  was impressed by the F3′s. … Continue reading

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Ultimate Documentary Production workshop. (3D as well if enough interest)

I’m planning on running a Documentary production workshop and 3D workshop based on a Storm Chasing trip to the USA from the 4th to the 12th of June. The trip would be an excellent chance to really put your documentary … Continue reading

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Convergent Design Gemini 4:4:4 Recorder and Monitor… Yum Yum!

Well here it is. I’ve known about this rather amazing device for some time, but have been under NDA. I see this as the perfect companion for Sony’s PMW-F3 and with a street price of around $6,000 it’s a bit … Continue reading

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SxSW – South by Southwest.

What a great show in a great town. I really like Austin, Texas. Its a fun town with lots of great music, even better during the SxSW music and film festival. I’m here in the Manfrotto booth doing demos of … Continue reading

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Genus Hurricane Rig to be sold by Manfrotto.

Just an update on the progress of my light weight, modular 3D mirror rig, the Genus Hurricane Rig. In many countries, including the USA and UK the rigs will be available through Manfrotto accredited dealers. To ensure the very highest … Continue reading

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Hurricane Rig Update. Available via Manfrotto.

My 3D rig will be available in many countries via Manfrotto from the 1st of March. Production has been in full swing for the last few weeks and we now have finished rigs in stock at the factory. In the … Continue reading

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Canon XF105, using OIS to correct zoom axis shift. (3D applications)

While I was in Singapore last week I got to play with a pair of Canon’s XF105′s on a Genus Hurricane 3D rig. We were able to use the programmable axis shift function to compensate for the way the zoom … Continue reading

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JVC GS-TD1 3D camcorder launched at CES.

JVC GS-TD1 3D Camcorder Everyone is at it! Hot on the heels of the Sony TD10 comes the JVC TD1. With such similar names and numbers this is going to get confusing fast! Anyway this is another dual stream full … Continue reading

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Shooting 3D with 2 Cameras and Synchronisation (Camera Rigs)

It is important to understand that no matter how much you slip and slide the clips from you cameras in the edit suite timeline to bring them into sync, if the images captured by the two cameras sensors are not … Continue reading

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