Nikon D3S
The Nikon D3s is our primary still camera. 12mp, 9FPS, incredible high ISO performance, HD Video. This is one of the great cameras in the world for location photography.
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Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S
The Nikon 14-24 is the widest of our three most heavily used lenses. It’s fantastic.
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Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S
The Nikon 24-70 2.8 is our most heavily used lens. Fast, reliable, crisp, and right in the middle of the zoom range, if we had to have only 1 lens, this would be it.
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Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED AF-S VRII
This is our third 70-200 2.8 lens from Nikon and they just keep getting better. It’s fast and crisp, and the new VR system makes shooting in low light incredibly easy.
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Manfrotto 028B Studio Tripod Legs
The Manfrotto 028B Studio Pro Triman Tripod Legs is a strong, sturdy and reliable tripod, built for studio applications. Standard features include the tandem leg design, built-in spirit level, and rubber feet with retractable spikes. This is our go-to video tripod.
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Manfrotto 501HDV Pro Video Head
The Manfrotto 501HDV Pro Video Head offers much of the performance of the larger, more expensive heads, but in a compact and economical package. It’s perfect for smaller video cameras or SLR bodies.
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Sandisk Extreme Cards
These little babies are super fast, big enough that you can get a good amount of pictures on ’em, but not so big that if you lost it, you’d lose everything.
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Broncolor Scoro A4S
A wonderful pack, with more control than you could ever want, and tons of speed.
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Broncolor Verso AF
A great pack, not as fast as the score, but hey, you can toss a battery on it, and away you go.
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Broncolor G4 Pulso Heads
Big old flash head, what else could you want?
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Chimera Video Pro Plus Softboxes
Chimera = bomb-proof. We like the video boxes better than the strobe ones. More versatile, and gives a nice little specular kick that the white ones don’t.
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BROADCAST EQUIPMENT
Sony PMW-EX1R HD Camcorder
The Sony EX1R camera delivers everything you would want in a HD camcorder. 3 CMOS sensors, Full HD 1920×1080, Wide angle 14x lens. We shoot our live broadcasts with these cameras and we also have great luck with them for documentary style shooting.
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Sony PMW-EX1R HD Camcorder
The Sony EX1R camera delivers everything you would want in a HD camcorder. 3 CMOS sensors, Full HD 1920×1080, Wide angle 14x lens. We shoot our live broadcasts with these cameras and we also have great luck with them for documentary style shooting.
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Manfrotto 028B Studio Tripod Legs
The Manfrotto 028B Studio Pro Triman Tripod Legs is a strong, sturdy and reliable tripod, built for studio applications. Standard features include the tandem leg design, built-in spirit level, and rubber feet with retractable spikes. This is our go-to video tripod.
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Manfrotto 516 Pro Video Head
The Manfrotto 516 Pro Video Fluid Head is specifically for the latest DV camcorders used by documentary and industrial videographers, and can support cameras up to 22 lb. Equipped with fluid cartridges, which provides continuous adjustable drag control. This is our go-to video head.
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Kessler Revolution Head
The Kessler REVOLUTION Pan and Tilt System is our answer to the need for an affordable, quality motorized pan & tilt head.
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Kessler Oracle Controller
The ultimate multi-function controller
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Kessler Crane
A great crane for getting dynamic angles & smooth motion.
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NewTek TriCaster TCXD300
The TriCaster is the center of our broadcast efforts. It allows us to mix up to 3 HD signals, and stream them out to the world for you all to enjoy. Added bonus is being able to mix in DVI input as sources.
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NewTek TriCaster LiveControl 11
Sure, you could control the TriCaster with just a computer, but where would be the fun in that. This controller really adds the speed and control you have over the broadcast.
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Aja Ki-Pro
The KiPro is an important piece of hardware for all of our multi-camera broadcasts. It sits between the TriCaster and the broadcast computer, down-converting & capturing a mixed version of the broadcast, from 1080i to 720P and writing ProRes files on the fly.
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Grass Valley ADVC-HD50
This handy box converts our HDMI stream coming out of the KiPro to an HDV signal that we can use in Wirecast, our broadcasting software, that puts us on the air at Ustream.
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Eartec PCx Intercom
These awesome little intercoms allow us to have two way communication from the booth to the camera operators and set directors for our broadcasts.
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