XDCAM EX1 on the road blog

cool to have worked with Robert Duncan - at least to those of us who remember Drop the Dead Donkey
still downloading the film...

Have watched it now, and it looks like it will be a compelling piece. Robert Duncan in particular pulls the stops out. Very nicely shot. As a film, it was a bit wordy to start with (not a lot happening visually, and you wondered why they were standing in a derelict station), but as it developed the performances drew you in, and you forgot those concerns. I don't know if it was the structure of the film, or if the actors warmed up as they got into their roles. If I was editing, I think I would see if I tighten up the first half - obviously this is a rough cut, so this is merely my humble suggestion rather than a criticism.

All things considered, a great debut Mr Cameraman!
 
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check out my blog on Sunday evening, my first one from Las Vegas. There should be something really worth checking out...I promise!!
 
well we all know what it is by now...anyway my ex1 is far from obsolete.

Whilst in Las Vegas I filmed 4 shorts. Las Vegas, Red Rock, Grand Canyon and my favourite Death Valley. The first three were shot on the new letus ultimate prototype. Death Valley on the Extreme.

http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Deer_Vegas.html

a semi sequel to Piccadilly Furs

More info and photos on my blog if interested.

I will get the others edited soon, but hopefully you worry mongerers out there will realise the EX1 is still a fab camera!

to see it in 720p register at exposureroom or vimeo and download it from there. it is still compressed obviously but better
 
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Hey mate, while youre in the vicinity you should come south a little further for a few days r&r in Sydney... :)
 
philip bloom said:
am off to Japan shortly for about 2-3 weeks to make a documentary on the environment. I hope to post some clips, photos etc. Shooting on two ex1s. Bringing the Letus Ultimate and as backup the Letus Extreme. Talking of the extreme i just finished editing my last short shot on it. Have a look...http://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Death_Valley.html

see the Extreme can still look nice.
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We got some great footage around Tokyo last year, got some decent night stuff also. Just not a whole lot of room though! (at least in the city)
 
Nice footage, I have that same motorized mount. If you put a digital still camera on it for the timelapse, you';; get some HUGE files that you can then stich together in After Effects...it makes for some nice high quality movies.
 
Yesterday, I hung around with Phil Bloom and Alex Kubalsky. Both of these guys are excellent to be around. I was greatly impressed with the EX1 and Letus Ultimate combination. The motorized mount had some problems with the camera weight, a subject Phil will cover on his blog,so, I'll leave it to him.
 
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Yesterday, I hung around with Phil Bloom and Alex Kubalsky. Both of these guys are excellent to be around. I was greatly impressed with the EX1 and Letus Ultimate combination. The motorized mount had some problems with the camera weight, a subject Phil will cover on his blog,so, I'll leave it to him.
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We solved the problem Dean. It was the horizontal tension was not tight which it needs to be, as soon as we did that it was flawless, in fact we did do a 360 degree timelapse at the end of the night!
 
most excellent ...

most excellent ...

philip bloom said:
We solved the problem Dean. It was the horizontal tension was not tight which it needs to be, as soon as we did that it was flawless, in fact we did do a 360 degree timelapse at the end of the night!
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It was good to hang with you and Alex! Good news on the mount. See you soon!
 
You too Sir.

I almost stayed for the whole trip, the presenter begged me to stay on, then they did a day's filming yesterday and the other cameraman was ordered around by the Japanese guy, shoot that, don't shoot there etc and it was decided that actually there was no point in me staying at all as there really is no chance of a film being made after all! Not just that but it turns out he is shooting on an EX1 too but in 1080 50i !!!

Anyway I am staying one more night to get some more temple shots/ suburbia shots to add to my cityscape shots, also I bought that Ricoh GR2 stills camera with wide angle adaptor. Wow, stunning quality in such a small camera!! These three shots are hugely scaled down from 10 megapixel RAW images.
 

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Good buy on the Ricoh GR2! Kuddo's to Peter Bellars for bringing it around for Phil to look at. I've got the Ricoh GR1 and have been very impressed with the results on that little stills camera!
check out my flickr site for examples of what this little camera can do!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29216263@N00/
 
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