Friday, November 09, 2018

old photo #118



Choppa-Detail - 28th August 2007 - Diggers rest, WA


Nikon D50+70-300 (@300mm), f9.5, for 1/4000th sec, ISO 200

A Spacecam system was shipped out to 2nd unit for some beauty shots of the locations.

In the days before high quality camera drones, you needed a big-ass helicopter to shoot landscape shots with movement...


The space-cam is a Gyroscopic stabilised mount for a cinema camera (The big ball shaped housing attached to the front of the helicopter) - a proprietary system, sent from LA to the far reaches of Western Australia to shoot some of the beautiful landscapes for Baz's epic.


a bonus photo of the 35mm gyro system up close

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