Chris McCallum

Happy birthday Jeff. hope it is a great one

Jason I have just been asked the same question and was going to utilise the ERX with code from my Nomad. How was the result of your shoot? Chris

in very quiet situations there is a handling issue but for this type of job I had no problems. Jason that looks like a very military setup you have Loved your work on one of the Lifestyle real estate shows I watched the other night!

Thanks Grant I will look at at that as well. I have owned both SQN and 302s and loved both. The Nomad does most of what I need these days , just looking at an emergency backup plan and a lightweight contingency

Nicole my standard kit these days is the Nomad with either a 416 or the 8060, rode and Oscar lavs on my Zaxcom 900lLTH transmitters with the STA/QRX camera hops. I have my SD442 in reserve but think I will sell that and buy a 302 as a lightweight backup

Grant the mixer was a Nomad 8 with audio being sent through a Zaxcom STA150 to a QRX100 on a Sony XDcam

I haven't used the 60 but I am told the 8050 and the very tiny 8040 are good for indoors. I have used my 8060 indoors without any dramas as well

I think it is the WS2 Rado

It was all boomed Nicole and I was using the Rycote WS kit

I am in Australia I am in Australia

Damn and I thought I had stopped giving my money to Zaxcom for a while Looks like I will need one of those!

I am lucky enough to have a business line of credit that I use to buy gear. Being in a country with a Goods and Services Tax that amounts to 10% of my income every month, I have adopted the view that if I have a good month I will be passing 10% straight back to the government anyway and if I can offset that with the tax that I pay on new equipment (using my line of credit) I can negate paying that (lost) money to the government and in return gain a new piece of gear and still be able to spread the payments as I need them. It works for me!

Will the 742 also provide 48v Phantom?

or buy the Rode Lav with changeable Micon adapter plugs http://www.rodemic.com/mics/lavalier

That is true Pete but so far it hasn't presented a drama to me as I have both D-Tap and Hirose cables for the QRX. It does however block the D-tap output of some batteries which limits the Camera's use of power in some situations. Overall I love the IDX bracket so far! Your pics have reminded me to "brand" my bracket so when I do forget and leave it on a camera they know who to send it to

I only have one ERX at this stage Jack and the Director grabbed that and hung onto it for the day so I used Sennheiser G3 kits to feed the cameras. Will purchase some more ERX units this year especially with the advent of the 5D MkIII

The Jays range from Sweden are excellent

I used my Nomad 8 on a commercial shoot for the first time today. 4 rads, 1 boom, wireless scratch track to camera, all iso. Very quickly came to terms with metadata and false start. Will very soon wonder how I worked without it!

I thought it was a trick question and the answer may be that there is a big red circle and question mark over the actor

Yes Mark, have been studying it intently and have had many good pointers from Jack Norflus and I believe (touch wood) I am ready for my first big shoot with it this Monday. Timecode slate, 4 rads a boom all iso and a scratch mix radioed to 2x5D cameras. Wish me luck!

I have updated firmware to all the latest versions and all my Zax gear is now happily talking to each other!

Very happy with my Rode Lav mics for the price!

I have a carnet list for download on my website (glad you reminded me I need to update it!) and I always refer the production companies I am working with to download it and they copy and paste it into their master list for the production. China has been the only location I have been to where they sat down and looked at every serial number of every piece of equipment - lots of fun after a 9 hour flight and arriving at 2 am!