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FOR SALE: Zeiss Contax set: Full-Frame EF-mount Duclos Cine Mods(11 Primes & 2 Zooms) Selling as a complete set: 11 primes & two zooms plus Alan Gordon Director's Finder (finder purchase optional) $19,500 If you've been pricing glass and know Duclos' quality work, you will understand you're...

$875 plus shipping of your choice. Please see photos for excellent-plus, near-mint condition of this lens. The Carl Zeiss Contax/Yashica 100-300mm remains a world-class zoom that surpasses many primes in MTF. Zeiss T coating adds a filmic aesthetic that smooths out the too-sharp digital...

Willing to pay above market for excellent quality... Please email if available: Michael.f.favazza@gmail.com

Panasonic HPX300P Package: Panasonic HPX300P (S/N G9TEA0139) - Only 584 hrs with stock Fujinon XT17x4.5BRM-K14 Lens $3,450 Highest-quality 1/3” HD wide-angle lens: Fujinon HD Th13x3.5BRMU (S/N 14601074) $4,850 - Barely Used; Owner Operator; Never Used on a Rental Camera FREE 64GB P2...

People are starting to dump these... And with the all-but-imminent arrival of Canon's 7D I guess the market will be a bit more flooded... Anybody interested in selling now? Also, I would like the Nikon AI mount for Zeiss ZF lenses, if one is available... Thanks, Mike

THoff, I'm VERY new at metadata. I'd like to create a customized set of metadata files for my upcoming trip to the Galapagos Islands next week. What's the step-by-step for creating, copying and saving to SD card for HVX? I tried creating my own in P2 Viewer, but Viewer won't work when my...

I just bought the OWC Mercury OTC 160GB combo drive with FW800 and USB 2.0 I have the proper cable for an HVX-to-FireWire 800 connection. I go to "Other Functions" and put PC MODE in "1394 Host"... ...but then...................NOTHING. 1394 CONTROL has a Blue "OFF" and 1394 CMD SEL features a...

I havent seen any rates for news stringers I'm thinking i will get my new a1 and change my rates per story what do you all think would be a good rate for news footage per station per story.

On my Avid Xpress Pro HD (v.5.6) system. what must I do to remove 2:3:3:2 advanced pulldown from my P2 card files? My HVX200 shot 1080i / 24Pa pulldown to an 8GB card. The goal is to get the 1080i /24pA files from the card into Avid. Then remove pulldown. And finally transfer the Avid...

I'm upgrading editing system to 1080 HD and need new monitors and graphics card. Two ViewSonic VP930b 19" matched monitors are PERFECT. (720p compatilbe: 1280x1024 rez) No stuck pixels. No dead pixels. Only perfect pixels! Graphics card is Nvidia Quadro FX-1300. (Works perfectly with Avid...

Anybody in or around Roanoke? If so, what's your day rate for 8 hours? Got a lighting package? Or know which rental house is best? This is for Sunday, October 29th. I'm a DP in St. Louis. This is an HVX200 shoot. 16x9 but mini-DV. My email: MikeDPLD@aol.com Thanks in advance... Mike Favazza

Anybody got one they need to unload? I'll pay $700 for it NOW!!!

Sony WRR-810A and WRT-820A with microphone clip and windscreen... Mint condition, folks. I just bought a two-channel dual diversity Sony receiver so don't need my single-channel set anymore. Any takers before it goes on ebay? This is the rugged, Magnesium stuff with professional Sony 4-pin...

Can you guys help me with a workflow for a one-man-band doc project in the middle of a Madagascar rain forest? (Maybe for broadcast, definitely for internal use by a zoo.) Leaving for trip on July 6. Limited or NO AC for most of trip. ...and no laptop. Shooting for 12 days with very high...

Anybody got a two-channel system they're trying to unload?