Docco Tools
This is my toolset for working documenary making. What you dont see are my two Abrahamsson Rapid Winders; mkI and mkII, these devices permit me to maintain full eye to VF contact at all times when using the cameras; focus, advance, aperture with the left hand and release with the right hand, and these M6's are manual cameras so the whole package works without power. Three small hip-flask shaped boxes which hold six rolls of film each, a 12" reflector which works well withthe flash for those times I have to use it, some cables for the recorder, my notebook, batteries, lens-caps, domke wraps, and my trusty Domke 803 Black canvas bag which looks nothing like what its carrying.
What you do see here is two Leica M6's the Chrome ones is a TTL version and that has the color film in it. An Elmarit-M ASPH 24mm f2.8, a Summilux-M 35mm f1.4, a Super-Wide-Heliar 15mm f4.5 with a double shoe adapter with the viewfinder and leveler, -I generally dont like to use VF's but for this lens its pretty important. A Gossen Digi-flash meter which is for backup -this is an outstanding meter for its size. A Sony PCM-D50 Linear recorder, this device is responsible for me getting into actually making documentaries again soon I will add to it with a rather expensive Sennheiser rifle-mic for more specific recording. And lastly my Olympus RC-35 which is home to my Voigtlander spot meter, the lens on this diminuitive camera is simply -off the charts- in terms of how it renders contrast tonality and dimensionality. I used to have Canonet QL17 GIII's which are the king of fixed lens era Rangefinders, but this thing is more pocketable, and at two stops slower, is still worth having because of that lens.
My prefferred methodology is analogue because it is infinitely more archivable. The PCM-D50 is the link breaker because it is digital and that is simply because for what you get in a $500 box is simply not available quality-wise on previous generation Professional grade cassette recorders.
I am currently in the research stage of a new work, something which I didnt do the first time and realize that research is for the most part, the biggest part of the whole process..
Docco Tools
This is my toolset for working documenary making. What you dont see are my two Abrahamsson Rapid Winders; mkI and mkII, these devices permit me to maintain full eye to VF contact at all times when using the cameras; focus, advance, aperture with the left hand and release with the right hand, and these M6's are manual cameras so the whole package works without power. Three small hip-flask shaped boxes which hold six rolls of film each, a 12" reflector which works well withthe flash for those times I have to use it, some cables for the recorder, my notebook, batteries, lens-caps, domke wraps, and my trusty Domke 803 Black canvas bag which looks nothing like what its carrying.
What you do see here is two Leica M6's the Chrome ones is a TTL version and that has the color film in it. An Elmarit-M ASPH 24mm f2.8, a Summilux-M 35mm f1.4, a Super-Wide-Heliar 15mm f4.5 with a double shoe adapter with the viewfinder and leveler, -I generally dont like to use VF's but for this lens its pretty important. A Gossen Digi-flash meter which is for backup -this is an outstanding meter for its size. A Sony PCM-D50 Linear recorder, this device is responsible for me getting into actually making documentaries again soon I will add to it with a rather expensive Sennheiser rifle-mic for more specific recording. And lastly my Olympus RC-35 which is home to my Voigtlander spot meter, the lens on this diminuitive camera is simply -off the charts- in terms of how it renders contrast tonality and dimensionality. I used to have Canonet QL17 GIII's which are the king of fixed lens era Rangefinders, but this thing is more pocketable, and at two stops slower, is still worth having because of that lens.
My prefferred methodology is analogue because it is infinitely more archivable. The PCM-D50 is the link breaker because it is digital and that is simply because for what you get in a $500 box is simply not available quality-wise on previous generation Professional grade cassette recorders.
I am currently in the research stage of a new work, something which I didnt do the first time and realize that research is for the most part, the biggest part of the whole process..