HV20 on roids :-)

[Dennis Wood]

A few shots of the HV20 mounted up. It definitely needs the achromat Footage coming soon...

[Rob Unck]

That is incredible! I'll be ordering (some of) that glorious stuff for my HV20 soon.

[Jon Wolding]

Nice

[David Garvin]

Drooooolllllll

That's what I wants!


Any more info on the flipping solution for the HV20 that you alluded to on dvinfo?

[Rafael Lopes]

Dennis, that combo is a thing of beauty. I'm dying for a HV20 my self.
I gotta tell you, I just love your mattebox. Is that your work?

P.S - According to the tracking mail I'll be receiving the brevis on Tuesday (I'm crossing my fingers!)

[John Palaganas]

lol overkill!

[Christopher Ruffell]

That's my goal too Dennis - wonderful

Two questions:

a) How long are those rails?

b) Which monitor is that? And a third: where can I get a bracket like that to attatch things to a rig (the thing that's holding the monitor onto the rail)?

Cheers!

[Dennis Wood]

Those are 24" but 18" would be plenty. The monitor is a Marshal HD, and the parts supporting it are just these:

Part numbers:
Bogen/Manfrotto 484RC2 Ball Head(with removable camera plate..fits 701RC2 fluid head too) This is effectively a quick release for the Marshall.
Bogen/Manfrotto 2933 $15

Under the mattebox is a 7Ah 12V power supply that we'll be introducing shortly. The one being released will be a bit larger and have a power rating of 10Ah. Thats about 13 hours of runtime for the Marshal.

[Justin]

Dennis,

You are a true pioneer. It looks like Davey swallowed the real biblical Goliath and exploded. (In a good way.)

Say, how sturdy is that setup? Have you ever gone handheld with that contraption?

-Justin

[Dennis Wood]

Yes, about 30% of the shots from this clip were done handheld. The HV20 is such a feather, the extra weight really helps.

[Dale Bryant]

that quick release monitor thingy u made is very smart.

[iansalim]

Too bad HV20 isn't black-colored, still has the 'handycam' look and less sturdy But I'm going to purchase it anyway Dennis, how do you like the 24p feature of HV20, is it great?

[Slava Barouline]

I am wondering how heavy the setup is
I think my tripod can take up to 4 kg

Did you shoot handheld with monitor or w/o?

Thanks

[AnthonyDowman]

It's a great rig, it really caught my eye and was what brought me here. the footage from it (hv20/brevice on ice) is great.

Slightly OT, but does anyone else have photos of their HV20 with a brevis? i am interested in seeing variations on it! and hoping to take the plunge in the not too distant future...

cheers!

[Dennis Wood]

The single feature of the being able to lock exposure and check aperture used by partly depressing the photo button makes manual control a snap now. We did have to spring for a miniSD card just to do it (who uses their video camera to take pictures?) but with pull down removed, the progressive footage is excellent.

I've been playing with a new 24p workflow posted over at hv20.com : http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=218 which has been mod'd once again with a standalone exe to remove pulldown using open source tools.

For handheld, or even the Brevis on ice clip, the onboard LCD was used for 100% of the shots.

[SiskoKid]

Ok, if someone can please help me. I'm very new to all this, and I'm just really more a director than cinematographer, but I just bought an HV20, and the only thing I hated about it was I can't really pull focus and get as nice shots as with this 35mm Brevis lens! The footage looks fabulous for such a cheap little camera.

BUT, I went to the cinevate site, and the front page shows a small lens, I click it, and it takes me to a diffuser. Is that the lens? I looked over the whole site, and I can't find the lens, but diffuser doesn't sound right.

However, what would be a huge help, if someone could, is give me links to all the things attached to the camera shown in the pictures above. The lens, the battery pack thing where the XLR cables seem to plug in, the tripod, the mattebox, any filters (if any) etc. I just want to know where and what I can purchase for this little HD camera to make the shots look that much better.

I know these sound like really stupid questions, but any help would be so awesome. Thank you I really want to buy this lens and some of those attachments so I can produce some nice stuff.

Edit: Just to add some more questions. I also don't know what some things do and why they're required. A step up ring? What's that do, and why do I need it? What's a 72mm achromat? I went to another thread linked from here with a list of links, but I don't understand what each thing does.

I want the setup shown above but without the HD monitor and I'm not even sure if I'd need the battery in the front then if I have no HD monitor, but correct me if I'm wrong.

[Davide Barillari]

The Brevis HD Imaging bundle is the product to buy to use 35mm lenses. A step-up/down ring allows you to screw the Brevis to your camera if your camera's threads are not 72mm.

If you go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dof_adapter and here http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=98071 there's a lot of good information on how adapters like the Brevis work and what the different parts do.

[cpaek72]

Dennis, I purchased the parts you suggested to get your field monitor mounted to the rails and found that the 143bkt bracket does not fit with 484rc2 mini ball head mount. Am I doing something wrong? It seems like the screw on the Bogen/Manfrotto 2933 does not fit into the Bogen/Manfrotto 484RC2 Ball Head. Please let me know if I'm missing anything. THanks.

Charles

[cpaek72]

Figured out why the 2 pieces weren't fitting. There is a reducer on the camera bracket you have to screw into the bottom of the tripod mount. It works perfectly now.

[Dennis Wood]

Charles, glad to see you got figured. The nice thing about those parts is that they're pretty handy for a car mount too...my original reason to purchase them.