A fun day shooting at the Auckland Zoo – for series 12 of ‘The Zoo’. Spider Monkeys, Elephants, Zebras, Rhinocerous – and the general public! Negotiating a 9m/30ft Jimmy Jib along some of the pathways at the zoo is a bit of a challenge and a bit of foliage was collected along the way. Shooting on XDCam...
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It’s our 10th anniversary of owning and operating Jimmy Jibs in New Zealand (and occasionally other parts of the world too)! And we’re still going strong! The first jib arrived in January 2002 and has seen plenty of jib shoots over the last 10 years. In fact its still the favourite – and usually the first one out the door. Jib 2 followed in 2004 and gave greater capability to handle an increasing workload for jib...
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We now have a 2nd Sony PMW350 XDCam EX camera available – as well as 2 PMWEX3′s, a PDW700 XDCam and a Sony DSR570 DVCam – so we’ve pretty much got things covered for cameras! We can do a package deal with Jib and camera – email us with your shoot details for a quote.
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The Rugby World Cup 2011 was one of the major events in New Zealand’s sporting calendar for 2011 – with the ‘All Blacks’ taking out the final in a nail-biting game against France to become the RWC champions. Jimmy Jib Camera Cranes were there – for all the Eden Park games bar one – and at the new stadium in Dunedin. We pulled out ‘the big one’ for the RWC – the 12m. The...
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Image NZ have just added a Sony PMW350 to the camera line-up. So now that’s available to Jimmy Jib Camera Cranes as well. Here are some specs for the PMW350: Impressive Body Design Three 2/3-inch-type Exmor Full-HD CMOS Sensors Low Power Consumption Unique Focus Operation – Professional Manual Focus and Auto Focus AF (Auto Focus) Assist Function MF (Manual Focus) Assist Function Focus Magnification Selectable Peaking Color ALAC...
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