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re LewisOB: i made similar experiences. there are red accessoires made by "action products" that display bnc connectors for timecode, genlock and many others in a more convenient manner on the camera. which is a good thing, the setups are very tidy. did a feature on epic last summer where it was absolutely impossible to get a clean scratch to cam via senn g3. my rf explorer just showed a impressively massive band of rf signal across the whole spectrum, more or less blacking out the screen when getting close to the camera. for a test, we stripped down the camera to the point where the culprit could only be one of these accessoires. dont know exactly where and how this happened, but one of this things killed more or less everything relying on rf around the camera ( redmote included ). a thing to consider if a scratch on camera is important. on all the others shoots without this accessoires the g3 worked as it should greets

enjoy, in case you dont know this already... :-) http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekSglGgaGws&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DekSglGgaGws

as someone pointed out the teradek bolt.... we got this unit on set as main videolink from camera to a single receiver and from there to all the monitors by cable. as reach varies (5.8g and walls...), the receiver on a cstand is mostly very close to set or directly on set. and yes sir, its got a FAN that produces a high pitched whine. no problem when shooting outside next to a highway, but completely impossible for quiet interior scenes.

hi larry, out of pure interest: how does a bigger/smaller deviation affect the quality of the transmitted audio ? better/worse s/n ? i use both systems, us and eu, and they sound identical, as far as my battered ears can hear :-).. or maybe the difference ist negligible under real world conditions...or just noticeable when improperly modulated ( too low ) ? best marco

hi , just stumbled over this thread. some months ago i bought one of these transcend pata-ssd´s jim mentioned above . at least in my case it wasnt recognized by the deva ( tried with zaxcom and remote audio caddies ) . deva5.8 / fw7.55 best wishes marco teufen

hi, i use the lanclogger as replacement for the bigger clockits on all those small cameras. it works as accurately as every other clockit and the cameraguys love it, of course... ( small and light ). ambient is about to come out with a new design of these small units, might be the lanc logger will soon be discontinued....http://www.ambient.de/en/news/detailpage/article/TINY-LOCKIT.html and yes, the battery door is quite odd :-) it took me about 10mins to figure out how it works on first sight. but in the end it was just brute force, paired with a slight twist. the unit runs 12h+ on a pair of good aaa-alkalines. didnt test rechargeables so far, i guess they will not last for a whole day.

short update. also, the 1ac complains about bad range with his wireless focus ( 2.4 ghz arri ). this camera just seems to spit out quite massive broadband rf trash. cure: sennheiser sk250/ek3041 ( 250mw) for scratchtrack. additionally, the timecode bleeds in the audiotracks and there is a rythmic clicking noise on the audiotracks, generated by the cam. -> everything audio on and around this cam is useless. at least, syncing with tc works as it should, with an attached all601 greets

hi eric , tried several other frequencies across the block, no difference. dont have access to other blocks atm. moving the rx away from the cam is not really an option, as the whole shoot is handheld with no cables coming from the cam. video over a canatrans, which is on a safe frequency much lower.

all of the above. three days into my first feature with this cam, and i hate it. do we really have to get used to this ?

just started a shoot on epic and planned to send a scratch for dailies wireless to the cam. it turns out that its quite impossible to get a clean signal onto the cam because of rf trouble. the attached receiver displays a heavy rf signal as soon as the cam is switched on and the receiver comes close to the red. massive blasts of noise all over...... director, script etc get the same feed and their signal is clean. coming from a shoot with alexa, where the same setup worked without problems. just wanted to know if someone of you experienced something similar or succeeded in operating receivers on the epic best m

hi all, i used the multi sma almost daily for the last 2 months and it worked like a charm. as i am working off a bag based cart, everything is crammed in a bag on the top shelf, so this small splitter comes in VERY handy ( basically a deva5.8, 5*411 and a BDS that powers everything from a 10ah-life-batterypack ). rf performance was rocksolid with sna600s attached on the cart and acceptable with coax-dipoles on the shoulderstraps in mobile configuration off the cart. i can only compare it to my previous ( and bulky ) audio2040/rk4/lpda setup and rf performance feels at least the same. there was only one shot where the setup came to its limits, but that was in a medieval castle with extremely thick walls and the actors played across 2 rooms, with videovillage being in the third... the biggest advantage to me is the possibility to go mobile in a couple of seconds without changing anything on my setup. just unhook the mix8 and attach the strap with the antennas and on it goes :-) i didnt update the multi sma yet, but as i am not using the antenna powering option, the rf-amp shouldnt blow, according to ron greetings marco

pyers, thanks for this information.

just had a phone with the swiss distributor of lectro, but he wasnt yet able to provide very specific information. According to him, EU transmitters will work 100% with US receivers, but not the other way round.

hi all as lectrosonics wireless systems become more and more available in europe, i am trying to find out if the european versions of sra/smb/smdb/ucr are compatible to the corresponding US models ( e.g. will a US ucr411 work with a european smdb etc ) are there limitations regarding compatibility or can these two versions be combined without any restrictions ? greetings marco

hi james, thank you for creating some very useful apps ! cant imagine working without these after only some months... suggestion regarding saving/transfer to lectroRM: it would be nice to have the possibility to export whole tx profiles from freqfinder to create preset lists in lectroRM ( or to access freqfinders tx profiles from RM for the same purpose ). greetings marco

hey michael, very nice thread indeed ! here some clips of swiss artists fischli/weiss and roman signer. enjoy ...

hi damien, i work with audio ltd in ch69 here in switzerland . no problems so far.

so no need to trash a UMCWB ... :-) thank you all for mentioning some less destructive approaches ! this new tool from psc looks indeed very interesting... what range does its wideband filter cover, ron ?

as i am looking for a bag based multicoupler for 4 ucr's , i am playing with the idea of disassembling a UMCWB and fitting the guts of this device in a sturdy custom housing with a footprint as small as possible. before i get out saw and driller, i wanted to ask around if someone of you planned or even successfully finished such a modification. greetings

thanks, very useful app for android, esp the preset function. i like the 1page design more, all settings are visible at one glance. as mentioned before, i would prefer if the volume of dweedle playback is stored, once set. i wouldnt care too much if the app is not muted on startup. i would even prefer some kind of a rogh metric display of playback volume, without prelistening of the volume, or an option to switch off the prelistening sound. .....and some kind of extension to facilitate freq coordination in a multichannel setup would be cool.... :-)

thanks RP

hi everyone, im working in oregon this month and might be in the need for some extra gear. is there a rentalhouse you can recommend ? best marco

hi, some thoughts when shooting in very humid environments: my cs3 regularly started to make trouble in very humid environments such as rainforests. i wouldnt even take it with me anymore but go for a 416 -> peace of mind as said before, drybags with silicagel are useful for storing the delicate pieces of equipment. if you are hiding lavs in t-shirts etc. , they will be drenched in sweat in no time.( especially on a hike ). same for transmitters worn on the body. the lavs i took with me regularly crapped out ( vt506, dpa 4061 ) and had to be dryed. luckily i had enough spare lavs with me. one transmitter died because of moisture. think about some kind of backup for the most critical pieces of your equipment, especially if the days are long/hectic and time to pamper your material is short.

hi christian, if you like the DIY approach : i started to use homebrewn LiFePo batterypacks a while ago. they consist of four 10ah-pouchcells in a housing of aluminium sheet, with a simple balancing circuit for occasional balancing. the whole thing is held together by shrinking tube. works perfectly well and powers a bag with 744/302 + 3rx for a whole workingday+. the pack is charged by a normal ctek leadacid-charger (4A) in about 2.5 hours. it shure is a little heavier and bigger than a np1, but i dont have to change batteries anymore during the day because its roughly 3times the capacity of my previous nimh-np1s. cost for a whole pack is around 160$, the charger is around 90$. the pouchcells were similar to this : http://shop.lipopower.de/LiNANO-9-Ah-32V-LiFePo-Einzel-Zelle-SL-FHC-5C-132mm more details upon request ( und in deutscher sprache... :-) ) greetings marco

i never regretted a single penny i spent for a well designed bag. kortwich/berlin ( http://www.filmtontechnik.de/488.html ) makes all the bags i ever dreamt of, and they do custom designs. but i dont know if they are available in US.