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Beechtree Media


Our Shooting Equipment
Beechtree has two broadcast spec shooting units. The PMW500 is ideal for run-and-gun, docs, and current affairs. For music videos and projects needing That Film Look, there's the 5D...

Cameras:
  • Sony PMW500 (XDCAM HD 422 50Mbps)
  • Canon HJ22EX7.6B zoom lens with digital zoom demand
  • 3 x 32Gb SxS cards ( = 3 x 1hrs record-time in full HD)
AND
  • Canon 5D Mk2
  • Canon EF24-70mm f2.8 lens
  • Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8 L IS II lens
  • Canon EF 100mm Macro f2.8L IS lens
  • Canon EF 180mm Macro f3.5L lens
  • Canon EF 50mm f1.4 lens
  • Singh Ray vari-ND filter (enables you to shoot wide open in sunshine, to keep depth-of-field to minimum)
  • 2 x 32gb Sandisk Extreme Pro Compact Flash cards
  • Zacuto Z-finder
  • Swedish Chameleon SC3 rig (for hand-held)

Mattebox: Chrosziel 16:9, with filter kit
Tripod: Sachtler 20 with 3-stage legs + short legs
Slider: 3ft Kessler CineSlider for tracking shots.
Monitors: Sony PVM740 with batteries and Portabrace bag; Marshall 7" HDMI monitor; Flanders Scientific LM2461W 24" grade 1 broadcast monitor.
Transport:
Renault Espace

Lights:
1 x Kino Flo Diva-Lite (flourescent softlight)
2 x Litepanels (1x1 bicolour LEDs)
3 x Dedolights with gobo projector
1 x Photoflex 1mx1m softlight 1kw tungsten
1 x 300w Arri tungsten fresnel
2 x Arri 800w redheads
1 x 30w tungsten battery light
1 x LED battery light
1 x Lastolite Chromakey Greenscreen 1.8 x 2.7 metres ( =
   5ft 11 in x 8ft 10 in)
Reflectors, diffusers, magic arm, etc.

Sound:
Gun mic: Sennheiser MKH416 with Rycote support
Lapel mic: Sony ECM77
Boompole: vdB "S" 2.2 metre
Headphones: Sennheiser HD25-1-II
(The above is suitable for a static talking head. For anything more complex I partner with sound recordists with their own kit including radio mics and stereo mixer.)

Macbook Pro with Final Cut: available on request.


PMW-500 XDCAM HD422 camera
Sony's PMW-500 was released in 2010. It has three 2/3-inch type 2.2-megapixel full-HD progressive CCDs - the same sensors as the PDW-F800/700 disc camcorders. The PMW-500 records onto SxS cards. It has BBC-approved broadcast spec with 4:2:2 colour space at 50Mbps, or at 35mbs for jobs requiring matching to footage shot on XDCAM EX cameras (EX1, EX3, PMW350).

It records 50 or 60hz (ie PAL or NTSC). Slow and quick motion cover frame rates from 1 fps (frame per second) to 60 fps in 720p mode and from 1 fps to 30 fps in 1080p mode. It performs time-lapse recording.


Watch work we have done