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'Lighthouse DigiBeta790 and SX90 for Wildlife' 
excellent comprehensive kits
January 2008
DigiBeta790: £195 per day, £975 per week (£139 a day thereafter)
BetaSX90: £175 per day, £775 per week (£110 a day thereafter) 
SX includes free use of SX player for copying to VHS/digitising etc.

Lighthouse has adapted these cameras for wildlife film-making

 Apart from the cameras the two kits are otherwise identical 
also see Lighthouse DigiBeta790 and Lighthouse BetaSX

The particular advantages of the lighthouse kits, for wildlife filming are the green protective covers
-the colour viewfinder option that means you can find the lion in the grass, the bird in the bush
-lightweight 6 amp Li-ion Time batteries that mean you can carry the days power in your pocket 
-and have control over your power consumption.  The mini-monitor is no weight at all 
-with the 790 cache board when you see the salmon leap, the kingfisher dive, the fly land, press 'record' and you've got it.  There's no need to keep running and running.
With the HiDef 2x converter you have exceptional quality in Standard and HiDef
-With Gamma cards to match Kodak film stocks you can be closer to that film feel
-And all this is neatly packed and can go in the soft-case and rucksack provided
-and then you can have a 4.8-48/96 superwide and The lens:

 
Lighthouse DigiBeta790 kit and the BetaSX90 kit are economically packed in Pelican cases in such a way as to be 
easy to carry and use ‘in the bush'.  
The Peli cases have soft outers that minimize vibration in the backs of  Land-Rovers and shock in air-freighting.

 
The cameras, eyepieces and batteries have 
green protective covers and specially made all-over green waterproof covers.  
A HiDef 2x converter gives exceptional
picture quality in standard or HiDef


  












The cameras also have RTI (Run Time Indication), that, accurate to 10 seconds, tells you, precisely 
how much run time remains:  No battery run-outs at the critical moment!  
Nor nagging worries that they might run out.  And the Li-ion batteries weigh 'nothing'.

A Transvideo mini colour monitor, sharp enough to check back-focus, can be clamped to the camera or tripod leg.  
It weighs only 1.5lbs (as opposed to 21lbs for a Sony 9" field monitor).
and with the radio link you could sit in the cafe with the monitor and press 'remote record'
 when you see the man-eater emerge!

A colour viewfinder makes finding 'the bird amongst the leaves' much easier and 
makes the whole world look 'natural' through the eyepiece!  Colour is an essential part of composition

The Lighthouse 790 cache-board  continually records whatever the camera has been pointing at in the 8 seconds prior to you pressing ‘record.’  Waiting for the bird to appear, dive, re-surface, the polar bear to emerge from it’s den? You don’t have to keep running and running.  When you see it happen, press record and you’ve got it and everything that happened in the previous 8 seconds.   
(3 secs. if the camera wasn’t turned on!)
Sound from supplied remote or attached mics.or parabola, can be recorded digitally on-camera via leads or radio link.  
Sound kit is  available.     
a pan-bar operated remote zoon servo is supplied with the standard lenses.  There is a remote on/off for the long lenses

The cameras can be supplied with any of the big lighthouse lenses, see the Lighthouse’ OpTex/Canon 14.5-960.  This is an enormously high-quality and versatile film lens designed for Super-16, but equally at home on DigiBeta790 or SX  with which it makes an exceptionally powerful Electronic Cinematography lens, superb for wildlife.  It comes with a HiDef 2x converter ensuring the highest quality compatible with HiDef.  The lens comes with a pan-bar operated Microforce zoom control that leaves the left hand free to adjust focus.  The lens and camera (SX or 790) can be kept fixed together on a specially made base-plate that can be quickly clipped, straight from the carry-case, onto the tripod.  This means that the lens and camera do not have to be repeatedly assembled and disassembled.  A remote on-off eliminates movement on the long end when operating the camera.


 Ring any time, night or day.  We can deliver/collect any time, night or day too.
07850 054 590     01406 351 522

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                  equipment for hire;   DibiBeta790,  DigiBeta for Wildlife,  SX,  Super-16 SR2,  

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