Comments on: What’s In Your Backpack, Mark Shea, Filmmaker? http://matadornetwork.com/goods/whats-in-your-backpack-mark-shea-filmmaker/ travel culture worldwide Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller http://matadornetwork.com/goods/whats-in-your-backpack-mark-shea-filmmaker/#comment-65596 Robin 'Roblimo' Miller Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:39:41 +0000 http://matadorgoods.com/?p=2372#comment-65596 I'm selling my Canon XH-A1 (already have a buyer) and keeping my tapeless Panasonic HMC150P. I am simply tired of tape problems. even though that Canon is the most versatile video camera I've ever owned. But no fluid head tripod? (shudder) I'm standardized on Manfrotto RC-2 mounts, and my largest portable tripod has a home-made 30" handle for extra-smooth panning. I'm close to 25 kg without a laptop, and my laptop is a not-light Dell that runs Sony Vegas fairly well even though it's a bit slow rendering mts (AVCCAM) HD files. Soon -- using the money from my Canon XH-A1 sale, I will buy a Panasonic HDC-TM300K, a top-end SD card/AVCCAM "consumer" cam that weighs under a pound. 3 1/4" CMOS sensors and mic/hedfone jacks... what more do I need? I already have a Rode videomic and several good handheld & wireless mic sets. Add a modosteady (baby cousin of my current glidecam) and modify it so I can drop it on/off my RC2 Manfrotto tripods, and I'll have a great, superlight rig for walkaround AND tripod work. Of course, nobody is paying me to travel the world, but there's plenty of cool stuff to film right here in S.W. Florida. And with my outrigger-stabilized kayak and EWA splash bag for my smaller vidcams I can get right up under the Mangrave canopy. And yeah, I can also lug all my stuff in and out of a law office or beauty parlor in one trip. Nature and art and travel video is fun, but business promo video and TV spots pay the bills. :) I’m selling my Canon XH-A1 (already have a buyer) and keeping my tapeless Panasonic HMC150P. I am simply tired of tape problems. even though that Canon is the most versatile video camera I’ve ever owned. But no fluid head tripod? (shudder) I’m standardized on Manfrotto RC-2 mounts, and my largest portable tripod has a home-made 30″ handle for extra-smooth panning. I’m close to 25 kg without a laptop, and my laptop is a not-light Dell that runs Sony Vegas fairly well even though it’s a bit slow rendering mts (AVCCAM) HD files.

Soon — using the money from my Canon XH-A1 sale, I will buy a Panasonic HDC-TM300K, a top-end SD card/AVCCAM “consumer” cam that weighs under a pound. 3 1/4″ CMOS sensors and mic/hedfone jacks… what more do I need? I already have a Rode videomic and several good handheld & wireless mic sets. Add a modosteady (baby cousin of my current glidecam) and modify it so I can drop it on/off my RC2 Manfrotto tripods, and I’ll have a great, superlight rig for walkaround AND tripod work.

Of course, nobody is paying me to travel the world, but there’s plenty of cool stuff to film right here in S.W. Florida. And with my outrigger-stabilized kayak and EWA splash bag for my smaller vidcams I can get right up under the Mangrave canopy.

And yeah, I can also lug all my stuff in and out of a law office or beauty parlor in one trip. Nature and art and travel video is fun, but business promo video and TV spots pay the bills. :)

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