Some photo's from Ricoh GR II. Really having fun with this great little camera.

Ricoh GR II, My New Camera

This little GR is a game changer for me. I sold my Oly EPL-5 and lenses (Micro 4/3) for this APS-C sized black brick monster. Very powerful tool that I'm still trying to figure out all of it's potential. Getting fantastic results and positive feedback from my around about photo's and portraits. It's a 28mm lens in Full Frame equiv. Really enjoying it. Will post photo's soon.

Its Been a While....

Here some Behind the scene pictures from the past year or so..

Panasonic 3D Shoot

Got my first 3D gig with the new Panasonic 3D cameras. They are pretty neat, easy to use. My only grip is that there is no ND filters for shooting outside, have to use a shutter, oh well, it worked and client is happy.

Excuse the blackwrap around the pull out screen, I was desperate. The convergence is trick on this camera. Takes a day to figure this all out. We figured out the editing on the Avid and we arte ready to do more 3D work!

The Wonder of the Pancake Light

Here are some behind the scene photo's for a "Golf Digest Digital" shoot I did in Orlando during the PGA Merchandise Show. This is a round table discussion with 4 of the top Golf Instructors in the world. Butch Harmon, David Leadbetter, Jim Mclean and Hank Haney, hosted by Senior editor at Golf Digest, Peter Morrice.

The set up was in a medium size ballroom at the Rosen Center. We had to lug a lot of stuff to make this work, very small crew, we switched 3 cameras and one locked off bailout camera. Lighting was a challenge at first, the client wanted the back round to fall off to black so we had to hang some Duvateen. I rented a Medium sized Chimera Pancake or China Ball light. I actually had the light, a 1K open face Arri, fit right into the head perfectly. It came with a shroud to control the spill. I used a 20' speed rail to hang it over the table. Hung a couple of 300 Arri's for backlights and a couple of Arri 150's for fill.

The got a great bounce from the warm color of the wood table. Over all it looked great, this was the perfect light for this situation. The crew from www.ko-mar.com was myself as DP/camera, Todd Kolich - camera, Gunner Garrity - camera, Anthony Angrisani -audio, Chris DeMaio TD/Director, Jim Gallagher / producer and John Marvel Head of GD Digital. Look for it soon on www.golfdigest.com.

Jamaica Tourism Video

We shot with our Sony F-900, from one end of Jamaica to the other and everywhere in between.

New Sony PDW F-800

Here is the new camera the company I work for just got. This is a great camera! We finally went to tape less, us old school guys were a little hesitant at first but here we are. This camera has a ton of features, right out of the box were are getting amazing footage. Sony has some custom scene files that are found here: http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcam/resource.downloads

XDCAM was a good fit for our archival purposes. A lot of this stuff can be put on a shelf for safe keeping's. The sony optical disk is easy to handle and label. One of the advantages we like about the camera is the ability to under and over crank frame rates. We usually had to rent a Varicam or do it in post which is not always ideal. Soon I will post some projects with this camera. Take a look at the production company website: www.ko-mar.com