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Equipment List

Professional equipment means professional video production

CAMERA and LENS

Sony D30 with Fuginon 15x8 AT internal focusing lens w/2x extender (extra-wide at wide angle); rear control kit, matte box and filters including promist, warm/soft effects, polarizer, nets, etc.
Panasonic HDX900 High Definition camcorder, 720p, 1080i; complete with Panasonic 17" high definition monitor (SDI, composite & component inputs), AC power supply, tripod, 4 camera batteries, remote zoom, 6 light kit, grip kit, audio package, related cabling. Panasonic AJ-SDX900 DVCPRO 25 / DVCPRO 50; 24P, 60i, 30P; 16:9 or 4:3. Panasonic HVX200 MiniDV / DVCPRO, 24P,30P, 60i, 4:3 or 16:9 Sony PD150 mini DVCAM

TRIPOD
Sachtler 20III with carbon fiber, two-stage legs
VIDEO RECORDERS
Sony PVV1A BetacamSP (one-piece operation) with VA500 color playback adapter;Sony DSR1 DVCam back; Sony BVW35; BVW7O; UVW1800; DVCAM Recorders including, DSR-1500A w/ SDI option
AUDIO
Shure FP33 & FP 32A mixers, Mackie 16 Channel mixer,Tascam 8 channel mixer; Schoeps & Sennheiser shotgun, Tram lavaliers (3); Sony lavalier (1); Lectrosonics wireless (3), carbon fiber pole; Shure misc. hand held microphones (wireless and hand-held configurations), Tascam and Fostex DAT decks.
LIGHTING
Arri combo kit (2 300 watt fresnels, 2 650 fresnels); Lowell "D" kit, omnis, softlights, pro-lights, Mole 200 watt fresnels (2); 100 watt "Peppers" (fresnels); medium and small Chimeras; HMI camera light; HMI "jokers"; Dedo light with projection(2); Kino Flo "Foto-Flo 400's with daylight,& tungsten balanced lamps, as well as Visual Effects lamps for blue screen and green screen lighting,Kino Flo "Ring Light" System (with daylight and tungsten balanced lamps), Kino Flo "Diva-Lite", Source 4 leikos / ellipsoidals 750watt
BATTERIES
Anton Bauer ProPac 14s (3) and Anton Bauer slimline digital batteries (2) with accompanying quick chargers
MONITORING (Audio & Video)
Panasonic BTLH 1700W (HD & SD) 17" wide screen color video monitor with built-in waveform monitor. Sony 8" & 14" color monitors PVM8020; PVM8044Q Hi-res monitor with built in audio; Sony professional headphones; auxiliary self powered audio speakers available (3 types)
GRIP
Sandbags, flags, nets, gels, fingers, apple boxes, C-stands, knuckles, arms, maffers, scissors clips, black wrap, gaffers tape, duvateen, french flag with articulating arm, spring clips, gator-grips, mini-blinds, foamcore, portable blue/green screens, etc.
TRANSPORTATION
Chevy 15 passenger Express Van
TELEPROMPTERS
QTV computerized prompter - laptop computer, and 11" or 15"(color, flat-screen) on-camera display or Presidential teleprompter
TIME CODE LOGGING
ScriptBoy wireless time code transmitter and clipboard receiver for logging
MISCELLANEOUS
Director's viewfinder, color playback adapter for one-piece configuration, Century .8 wide-angle adapter, Century +2.6 dose-up adapter, Sony digital scan converter (component or composite) with picture positioning,
JIBS
Jib Arm, Stanton Jimmy Jib; Losmandy Porta-Jib
DOLLY
Matthews Doorway Dolly, camera tripod dollies


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