Comments on: Navy Swimmer: Mountain Rescue & Sea Rescue Sequences

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:18:24 +0000

Londa Boleware, I am glad you enjoyed it.

By: Londa Boleware

Londa Boleware — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:46:16 +0000

I just found this website a while back when a buddy suggested it to me. I have been an avid reader ever since.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:22:45 +0000

Hans, Some of the shots are a Sony F-950 when you see chopper to chopper but the shots in the water looking up at the helicopter are all 5D, as well as on the water looking at the Chopper as the Navy Swimmer jumps out and also retrieves the downed pilot, as well as in the crevasse. I have never had a jello issue with helicopter blades.

By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:15:48 +0000

Hi Shane, great movies! Really fantastic work. I was just wondering if the helicopter shots where we see rotating blades are taken with a dslr. I’m almost sure it isn’t because there’s no jello effect that would have been there with a cmos dslr like the 5D, 7D, or 1D.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:03:33 +0000

Martin Baumgaertner, Thank you for your kind words, I love Pat, I am bringing him down to the Dominican Republic to rock out a Tourism job.

By: Martin Baumgaertner

Martin Baumgaertner — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:48:06 +0000

Shane, thanks for sharing these. Nice work.

I can vouch for Patrick’s work and his rig. I worked with him back in October here in Chicago on some aerials with a really good pilot. The Cineflex has absolutely amazing quality and stability for its size. Of course, you need a good operator, too.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:19:02 +0000

patrick longman, it went very well. Thank you so much for your guidance on the 1500. David Knoll did Terminator with me and he is amazing.

By: patrick longman

patrick longman — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:46:23 +0000

Shane, Let me know how it went on Friday with the Cineflex shots. I am very jealous of David getting to shoot that job but he is one of the best guys out there. Sounds like a really cool shoot.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:58:22 +0000

Patrick longman, that sounds great, you have sold me on the 1500. I cannot wait to shoot this Submarine breaching from the air, with a little zodiac racing across the Atlantic. Hope to see you down there.

By: patrick longman

patrick longman — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:06:20 +0000

Shane, I am glad to hear you guys are coming down to Florida and that you are going to use one of my systems. Hopefully I can get out there with you guys one of these days to shoot some aerials for you.
I feel the 1500 has some definite improvements over the 950. The new sensor and its signal to noise ratio seem to be the most notable. When I work on jobs that provide a dit that is always the first question “is it a 950 or 1500?” They are both great cameras.
The other improvements to the newer 3rd generation gimbals are a much bigger deal. Most notably for me is to be able to interchange lenses in the field which you could not do with a lot of the original systems that had 950’s.