steadicam tft lcd monitor pricelist

EZ FX 10" - 16" (extension) Camera Jib with remote controls and monitor comes with Operator (Camera NOT Included in prices - see single camera prices)

Yes, I enjoyed myself, I loved doing 2nd ACs. I enjoyed that very much. I didn"t enjoy focus pulling that much, that wasn"t my cup of tea. I got to know a few Steadicam operators, and one of them did a lot of TV shows, live TV, and I worked with him over the course of one and a half years, as a focus puller for Steadicam. Basically, if you do TV show, it"s more like you carry the schedule, what"s going to happen for the next one and a half hours, and you make sure that the operator doesn"t fall off the stage. Focus pulling is not an issue on 2/3” cameras. Then I came across a Steadicam workshop and thought ‘All right!’ That was always appealing to me and so I did the workshop.

I think it was one of the first Steadicam workshops Tiffen ever did. There were eight or nine operators there, and 34 students. A huge bunch of people and a lot of operators. That was quite an impressive week.

Yes I do. Basically my first monitors were Transvideo Monitors. The very first was a seven inch CineMonitor. I still have it, never sold it. Then as my Steadicam career progressed, I went to a green screen CRT, a TB6, which has super anti reflection screen and it"s unbelievably bright. Essentially you can have a full reflection of the sun on the screen and you still can see your image, no matter the angle you"re looking at screen. I used that for 10 years plus.

Then I bought an eight inch Transvideo, an X-SBL. That was the first monitor where they had a high bright version and that"s when I went back to Transvideo. It"s not purely a Steadicam type, it"s actually a field monitor, which is mainly used by Steadicam operators because it"s built like a tank with a solid aluminium housing, which is really strong. It survived two crashes which it had to endure. Next feature is the brightness and contrast ratio of the screen. Back then it was the best you could get. Recently Transvideo upgraded my X-SBL with a new screen and backlight. It brought it back to the level of best screen out there. CineMonitor HD8 XSBL. Improved contrast, brightness, and viewing angle.

I use the frame lines and the bubble level. Sometimes I use the exposure tools as well. Most of the time, as an operator, exposure is not really your business. Working in Germany on TV drama or TV series or even feature films, if you do B-camera/Steadicam and two cameras at the same time, with some DPs they do want you to take care of exposure because they operate A camera. That"s part of your responsibility then.

If you work with a DP who doesn"t operate and is behind the monitor, at video village, or with the DIT controlling the exposure, you don"t have to take care of that at all. Sometimes I use the exposure tools, but most of the time I don"t, only frame lines and bubble level.

I do have two other monitors, one Small HD, and one Boland. Essentially Boland is a nice cheap monitor with a good screen and a bright screen, good viewing, but it"s not really very well built. It"s not as water resistant as the Transvideo monitors, and it"s basically a backup monitor. The small HD was also a backup monitor. It"s one of the first they built, but when it failed after two years I struggled and failed to get good service on it. Probably I"m not going to buy a small HD monitor ever again. That really was a deal breaker, and that was the reason I went back to Transvideo. Essentially now this last year and bought the Stargate to replace it.

The Starlite is basically a small Steadicam monitor and an onboard recorder, and sometimes used as a low-mode monitor, or a monitor for awkward angles when you have to push the rig in a position where you can"t see the main monitor anymore. That monitor is light enough and small enough to place it anywhere on the rig and still be able to see a frame, for certain moments. Mainly it"s an onboard recorder. The Stargate is a lightweight monitor if I do running shots, I usually strip down the camera and strip down the rig to the bare minimum, and then I use the lightest monitor I have available with the biggest screen, which is either Boland or the Stargate, whatever"s next on the cart.

I haven"t used the Stargate yet because it"s too fresh out of the box. That will be either an onboard camera for handheld work or studio work, or it will be the go to monitor on the Steadicam for running shots.

All three are brilliant monitors. They"re super reliable, they"re built super sturdy and I don"t have one Transvideo product that ever failed me. My first LCD monitor back then, SD CineMonitor, that thing is still working, and they just keep going. The only thing I sent back to Transvideo was my X-SBL, to get an upgrade. That was it. It has a few scratches and dents on the housing from the two crashes but still works fine.

I was, one time, not really protective enough with rain, and I got a bit of rain through the USB port, inside the housing. Usually I don"t use a rain cover. I just use a gaffer tape and tape that over the knobs, and the dialling knob on the monitor on the lower part. With rain towers I should have been a bit more protected. I got a bit of water into the housing, and the HD feed went blank. I opened the housing and found water droplets on the HD sockets inside on the PCB board. We removed the water, left it overnight on the heater. Next morning, put it together, switched it on and it worked.