Re: Using a circular polarizer with EX1

Aloha Steve,

We fly mostly in a Hughes 500, but it's so we can land on rough terrain (tails a lot higher). The camera worked great, but XDCAM still suffers a bit from the same data overload as HDV when flying low. The entire scene is in motion and it's a bit blurry, but not too bad.

I put our camera on a Fig Rig with a Kenyon Labs KS-8 mounted under the camera plate. I had to get a couple of longer bolts, but it works great. Just set the Fig Rig on your lap and fly. I tried suspending it from the door frame, but the gyro had much less effect that way. Just waiting for the varizoom controller now. The gyro and the FigRig ran about 4k, but it's been worth it. Not as good as a gyro platform but a couple orders of magnitude cheaper.

Aloha,

Ken