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MRMC Newsletter
16th February 2005
| This Week: •New Product - Integrated Capping Shutter!! •Demo Day in Soho •TeleG Talks About Rostrum |
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| New Product - Integrated Capping
Shutter Mark Roberts Motion Control is proud to announce the
release of our latest product, the Integrated Capping Shutter (ICS) for
Fries Mitchell cameras. Together with the Mitchell S35 these cameras are
used daily all over the world for special effect shooting and for
animation purposes because they provide superior registration and
alignment of the film, as well as being able to shoot from 0 to 120 FPS.
The camera is popular because it is fairly low cost for a 35mm camera,
but it is also one of the highest quality and reliable cameras
available. Using different lens mounts all popular lenses can be mounted
including BNCR, Nikon, and Arri-PL. The one disadvantage with the Fries
Mitchell has been the fact that for animation or time-lapse, light could
pass the shutter during the long periods between exposures and
therefore render the camera useless for such work.
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| Demo Day in SOHO Due to many requests and the previous success, we are once again holding another Motion Control demonstration event. This time in Soho, central London at OnePost Motion Control studio on Tuesday 1st March. We will be demonstrating the Ulti-Head, a remote pan/tilt head with motion control capabilities, showing the Motion Control tutorial, giving out our DVD, serving drinks and providing an excellent opportunity to network with others in the industry. There will also be an opportunity to see the motion control facilities at One Post including their 12-axis studio-rig in action, which has recently had a Track rail upgrade to provide further reach and higher speeds. The event is open to all Cameramen, Directors, DoPs, rental companies, Producers and Post Production personnel and anyone else who is interested in finding out about using motion control or the new Ulti-Head. This is a chance to learn more about the technology, ask questions and get information, but more importantly learn about what you can do with the Ulti-Head. The event will run from 4pm in the afternoon till 8pm in the evening with demonstrations running continously. One post is located at 142 Wardour St. Please contact Sophie on 01342 334700 or sophie@mrmoco.com if you are interested in attending.
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| TeleG Talks About Rostrum Michael Bayley-Hughes owner of Welsh production company TeleG Ltd, talks about the acquisition a year ago of a motion control rostrum system. “It has revolutionized our work and given it a distinctive 'look'. Credits include Acme TV's forthcoming Bob Marley documentary for S4C, the Welsh television company. The software and hardware enables motion control moves on a rostrum or animation table to be created with simplicity. Essentially rostrum tables and animation stands have been used since before computer graphics, at a time when most special effects were created on animation stands, prior to the advent of larger motion control rigs and 3D graphics packages. But today there are still a number of these machines going strong the world over and in fact are seeing somewhat of a comeback. Currently the only other alternative to a computer controlled rostrum system are digital-rostrum computer programmes which have their limitations using scanned images. There are difficulties in lighting in the same way and restrictions on zooming with increased pixelation, as well as delays in rendering the hi-res output. Michael goes on to say, “Before we got the rig we would have to travel to Manchester or even London for any rostrum work which was totally unviable when material was coming in bit by bit during editing”. TeleG TV Ltd had been looking for a rostrum system with some difficulty for over three years. “We knew we needed a system to enhance the level of our work so we finally were lucky enough to track down a Mark Roberts system. We are now able to produce work on demand for instant access by our edit suite." “The rig can make sophisticated moves even on tiny objects, the size of a 10 pence piece, which would be impossible without such a rig and we recently did such a move on a Roman coin for our latest series. My intention is to make a production based entirely of archive stills shot on this rostrum."
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