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Lighthouse collaborates with cameramen and productions to provide
 the very best of appropriate specialist film and video equipment, 
 equipment that has helped the BBC NHU and others win world-stage awards.

'GALAPAGOS'
Best of Festival
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2007
The BBC Natural History Unit
Filmed by Paul Stewart, 'almost entirely...and that includes the wides',  with
the Lighthouse 14x40 (14-560/1120) Image stabilized, flat-plate mounted, perfectly tuned, HD lens, 
The film also won a Prestigious American US Peabody Award - hence this quote; "Horace Newcomb described
 the BBC/National Geographic production "Galapagos: Born of Fire" as one of the most beautiful things he has ever seen. 
That's quite an accolade from the director of the Peabody Awards".

The team are currently filming a 3-part HD Natural World series in Yellowstone 
with specially prepared and adapted Lighthouse Varicam / big lens / infra red equipment
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'Searching for the Coast Wolf'
First Prize & Best International Film
NaturVision  Wildlife Film Festival 2007
A Richard Matthews Film for
Matthey Film of Germany
Filmed with Lighthouse HDW730, HJ11 and EC lens

'Return of the Osprey'
First Prize & an Award of Excellence
'Communication in Business'
Lighthouse Films
"A really splendid documentary"
Filmed with Lighthouse SX90 and EC lens

 
Great films by great film-makers, using great equipment from Lighthouse, at modest prices

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"This film would probably not have looked so crisp without your excellent  
(and well maintained) cameras!"   
Huw Cordey,  BBC NHU  'Space Age Reptile' 
         

Lighthouse has the latest Varicam, the New 900r Cine Alta - all HD formats
Sony HD730 - 50i and 60i,  BetaSX90,  DigiBeta790 and DVCam 450,  Arri SR2
all with superb lenses and loads of extras
 camera kits and guide prices

Much of Lighthouse equipment, modifications and accessories are not available elsewhere

Detachable image stabilizer, Gyro-stabilized tripod head, 
state-of the art Infra Red night-shooting equipment
top-of-the-range lenses including adapted 40x14 Telephoto HD and DigiPower25 HD
 flat lens support plates, remote record on/off, independent powering of lenses,
cache boards and time-lapse, cold weather adaptations
colour viewfinders, specialist camera jackets, 
soft and hard cases to take cameras and big lens combined
no pile of silver boxes, Lighthouse kit is
all neatly and economically packed for wild adventures,
free collection/delivery anywhere in the UK
free multiple entry Carnets for series
free Satellite phone
excellent back-up

and very modest prices

Lighthouse is not in competition with off-the-shelf rental companies, 
indeed we have good collaborative relationships with them
we have only a small number of kits
we work with cameramen and productions to put together 
appropriate kits for wild adventures 
and of course for everyday filming 
cameras and lenses are checked and serviced by the very best engineers 
before and after each special shoot.
we provide excellent back-up and are happy to get equipment to cameramen 
well in advance for familiarisation at no extra cost

Lighthouse equipment has been used by and/or is being used by, 
the BBC NHU - Planet Earth, Wild, Spring Watch, Natural World, Galapagos, Yellowstone, Jimmy's Farm, Trawlermen 
BBC Scotland, BBC Birmingham  etc
by Adrian Warren, Ian McCarthy, John Aitchison, Mike Potts, Paul Stewart, Doug Allen, Barbara Tyack  
 Richard Matthews, Malcolm Edmonds,  Martin Hayward Smith,  Philip Lovel, Mike Potts, Steve Gray 


and Lighthouse equipment is regularly used by Independent Production Companies
Lion TV, Impossible Pictures, WestPark Pictures, Cicada, EC1, Optomen, Shake the Tree, etc
in the UK and overseas 
Lighthouse equipped Cicada's 8 part Discovery adventure in the New Guinea jungles, 
Shake the Tree's epic 3 month National Geographic search for black Caiman up the Amazon, 
EC1's current round the world environmental series for Discovery

Lighthouse is  Simon Normanton 
ring me on 07850 054 590 any time
or email Simon@lighthouse-films.co.uk

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Ring on 01406 351 522 / 07850 054 590 or click   Simon@lighthouse-films.co.uk

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