

Built-in 120-degree detents and no moving parts mean it’s fool-proof. The dedicated ring mount has been on the lens for 10 years now. The 360 Precision Atome Rotator is by far the easiest and fastest way to start shooting an HDR. Each was a different spin on the same design and for the early days when I couldn’t afford a dedicated camera body for HDRs, the idea of needing to set up something so precisely so quickly on set was a non-starter. Over the years I’ve experimented with all sorts of panoramic heads from Acratech, Manfrotto, Really Right Stuff, and Nodal Ninja. The only thing I’d change is the color but I’m vain like that. It fits the bill and I’ll gladly buy another. I’ve been with the 3 Legged Thing ‘Leo’ for about 5 years now and for me, it’s the perfect option.
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I’ve tried loads of tripods and the biggest challenge was finding something small enough to fit into a Pelican case, light enough to not be a chore to schlep, and strong enough to carry a mid-size DSLR or mirrorless with heavy L series Canon lenses, a small pano head, and a Camranger. Here are a few big-picture thoughts and highlights. Here is a list of all the gear in my visual effects supervisor kit. It’s not the only thing that matters, but it’s part of this complete breakfast. You cannot be an effective visual effects supervisor if you haven’t tried to track a featureless shiny concrete floor, or tried to get the bevel right of a street curb, or how time-consuming it is for compositors to build light and shadow plates when mixing practical and digital shadows. Match-movers, hard surface modelers, texture artists, animators, lighters, and compositors all greatly benefit from visual effects supervisors being knowledgeable in each of the studio departments they represent. As a young compositor, I collected gear and spent nights and weekends learning how the different CG disciplines relied on data capture from set to keep their promises. I obsessed over his Flickr page, wondering what purpose each item played, and one day vowed to have a kit of my own. Thirteen years ago I stumbled upon Eric Alba’s VFX kit list.
