Robert Rodriguez

It’s like TMZ for camera geeks! On Philip Bloom’s site, there are photos of Robert Rodriguez using two Canon 7D’s to shoot a music video. One camera rig is insanely tricked out with monitors, remote follow focus, and caused rampant speculation about what cable is what, and why they would use that. The DP on the shoot, Jimmy Lindsey, kindly checked in to shed some light on what was used.

The fan-on-the-spot wrote the following:

“I walked into the area where they were filming and immediately was drawn to the HDSLR rig they were using. I pulled up my cam and starting shooting some pictures of it (I was about 15 feet away and realized it was a Canon 7D – wireless follow focus, Panasonic monitor with hood, and Zacuto grips/rails) when a guy politely walked over to me and said “we are trying to keep a closed set” – there was no security, just 2 camera operators, a tethered production cart, makeup, 2 HPX 170s filming BTS, and a few grips. I said I was only interested in the rig, not the music artist being filmed (which I then realized was local favorite Bob Schneider).  The guy was cool and let me take a few more and I walked away. When I told my wife that one of her favorite musicians was filming a video, she ran up to the fence and started to watch and then said “hey, is that Robert Rodriguez?”… it was. At first I felt stupid for not realizing that it was him but the rig was huge and blocking most of his head. They were shooting with 2 7Ds  - the second only had a Zacuto Z-finder, and Robert took turns shooting on both.”

The full story is at: http://philipbloom.co.uk/2010/03/02/robert-rodriguez-shooting-music-video-on-2-canon-7ds/