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6th Motion Picture Marine Newsletter |
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Written by David Grober
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Thursday, 30 June 2005 |
| In this newsletter: Cinegear and Surfing at Mavericks | | Recently all the hottest movie gear came together for CineGear, a trade show featuring the best of the professional production community. With a new venue at the Warner Bros. lot, it was a great day and we were a huge hit. It was wonderful to see old friends who have been steady users of the Perfect Horizon for years, as well as meet with hundreds of new faces. Here are some pictures from the show.
Thanks to Denny and Irving at Clairmont Camera, Jimmy Fisher and Frank Kay at
J. L. Fisher, and Richard Amadril at Panavision for use of your gear. See you next year. (right: Tim La Vigne and Michael Witt from Motion Picture Marine presenting the Perfect Horizon) |  ( David Grober and Robert Primes ASC, chat about old times. Robert, a fabulous DP, helped us in the early testing of the Perfect Horizon years ago.)
The Perfect Horizon is becoming the perfect solution for stabilizing cameras onboard dollies, such as J. L. Fishers Model 9 Dolly shown here. So forget leveling track. Maybe even forget the track altogether! The Perfect Horizon mounts between the fluid head and dolly, eliminating pitch and roll. You can even go up and down ramps or around twists and turns and the camera maintains a perfect horizon.
| | The 2005 Maverick's surf contest was a real high when waves cresting 45' rolled into Half Moon Bay just south of San Francisco on March 3rd. The Perfect Horizon stabilization head was used to film Maverick's last year, and again this year. Cameraman Jamy Donaldson (below) shooting Beta SP, found the Perfect Horizon the perfect choice to combat the violent pitch and roll of the camera boat as Captain Tim Wells kept us nestled in the swirling edge of the crashing 45' giants.
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The Maverick's competition, created by renowned surfer Jeff Clark, invites 24 of the world's best big wave surfers when monster Pacific waves come calling. Often there is only 24 hours notice to both competitors and camera crews. Names like Flea, Skindog Collins and Peter Mel show up and go for broke. Catching a wave at Mavericks is like "trying to place a Dixie Cup on the horn of a charging rhino" according to local surfer and contestant Grant Washburn. The Maverick's Surf Contest production aired on NBC on April 24th, 2005, and was produced and directed by five time Emmy Award winner Scott Ogle.
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