Proaim (RS-2) Rail System from The CineCity

I’d thought I would share my experiences of using the CineCity Proaim Rails System that I’m using with the Panasonic AF101. Simply because I was very sceptical about buying equipment from India rather than buying (or rather, ‘investing’) in what might be better quality gear from the US – such as Zacuto or Chrosziel. But I may have been converted… Read more

Would you use an AF101 on a run and gun shoot? Hmmm… not sure…

I guess the title really answers my own question.

Today I went to shoot a fire and rescue exercise for one of my clients. For a number of reasons, I ended up arriving just before the fire fighters were due to start the exercise. It was literally, run out of the car with my camera and lens bags, dump them in a safe place and turn the camera on – and shoot.

Not ideal. Read more

Sony EX1R camera modifications for adventure travel documentaries

Want to know how Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s Long Way Down was shot?

Over time, many cameramen develop systems and techniques to allow them to shoot in a way that optimises their equipment and allows them to capture images and audio in the quickest and easiest way possible.

My colleague, Claudio von Planta, is an exponent of camera modification especially for adventure travel documentaries on motorcycles. Most famously for Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s Long Way Round, Long Way Down and Charley’s By Any Means 2 trip. Read more

Racing Green Sony Webinar with Claudio von Planta

During my time collaborating with Claudio on the Racing Green project (see here) we both learned many things. Part of our commitment to Sony for the loan of my EX1R, was to attend a live webinar event which was broadcast over the internet. Here we shared the many things we already know along with the new things we’d learned along the way. Read more

A year of work in one post!

There’s not doubt that trying to condense the products of a years work into a single blog post, is asking too much of my meagre writing skills. What you see below is the product of a very busy 12 months of corporate shooting and one of the reasons that my site hasn’t been updated of the last few months is that I’ve been extremely busy actually doing the work you see here. Read more

Gaddafi, a helicopter and the Panasonic AF101

So, what does Gaddafi and the Panasonic AF101 have in common? Well, on first appearances – not very much. Except that I recently shot an aerial sequence from a helicopter that used to be his personal transport…
Read more