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The World of HD Minicams...
is changing all the time
Our first e-newsletter of 2017 and the first in some time, due to an incredibly busy 2016. Prime Television HD Minicams have completed a wide variety of productions including numerous TV commercials and a wide variety of TV shows. In addition to what is ongoing we hope to keep you informed of the very latest in mini-camera and PTZ technology, as well has hidden camera and hide options. Prime Television has been supplying the latest minicam technology on all types of media productions for over 15 years. When it comes to minicam facilitation we have seen it, done it, got the T-shirt and perfected the service.
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Sky Fortitude
Our expertise in filming and lighting using the invisible infra red spectrum 940nm, was put to the test again recently in a promo for Sky's second series of 'Fortitude'. Blindeye Films director Jack Lightfoot wanted to ramp up the fear factor for the new series in filming in a pitch-black room. The Prime Television team lit the event space with both conventional lighting as well as various levels of infrared lighting. The difficulty in shooting in the higher light wavelength is the higher the wavelength, the lower the light intensity, so we used over twenty different infra red lights in this production. To capture the infrared filming we used a combination of our Panasonic UE-70 remote control cameras and our Canon XF105 cameras, which captured all the menacing actors from the series scaring the punters from Peckham perfectly.
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GoPro SyncBac Kit
As minicam experts we have always ad a love hate relationship with GoPro cameras. We have always had them but not always used them, primarily due to the lack of a common interface that would allow us to record multiple cameras on one screen and the all too common syncing issues. Having someone running around with a Digislate is now a thing of the past with our new SyncBack mounted GoPro Hero 4 cameras allowing us to record timecode generated at source, producing video files with synchronized timecode embedded in the same way as our professional minicams and traditional professional shoulder mount cameras and audio equipment. Our GoPro camera kits come with long range RF time code transmitter and longer lasting batteries to that the GoPros can be left in record for over 6 hours of record, making them a much more useful Minicam tool.
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Suzuki Saturdays
We filmed a number of great commercials last year but the new Suzuki adverts with Ant & Dec are always a pleasure to work on. We are already regular providers of minicam technology and camera hides for Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and had filmed the previous commercials for Suzuki, so it was an easy fit to provide the services for this new batch of Suzuki commercials. To get the best quality available we used our Sony a7sii and Toshiba HD5 cameras to capture the majority of the in-car footage but as much of the filming was with unsuspecting punters these cameras had to be hidden. We spent two days at Suzuki hiding ten cameras in two cars, with a Sony a7sii and two Toshiba HD5's hidden in each of the cars SatNav consoles. Here is one of the new adverts, yet to be released on TV.
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