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Housing Main Seal O-Ring Change

Pamela Mertz starts in a new Gates 'how to' video about changing your main seal o-ring.  She demonstrates an easy technique for proper installation with a few 'do's and don'ts' along the way.  
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ALEXA Mini & Gates MINI Housing — Initial Field Tests

ARRI ALEXA Mini & Gates MINI Housing – Initial Field Tests by John Ellerbrock Bob Cranston and I spent the weekend of July 11/12 diving Catalina Island with the new ALEXA Mini camera and Gates MINI housing.  This is a fun part of my job:  testing all the new underwater rigs.  J   What follows are…
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Gates MINI Housing for ARRI ALEXA Mini

Gates Underwater Products announces new MINI Underwater Housing A compact, travelable 4K cinema system, the Gates MINI housing brings ARRI lineage to Natural History productions. Poway, CA – 23 February 2015– Gates Underwater Products – home of the worlds more reliable underwater housings – today announces an original new underwater housing, the MINI. Specifically designed…
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The DSLR as a Video Camera

The DSLR as a Video Camera Or: Reasons Why the DSLR is no longer a tool for professional filmmaking by Jonathan Bird / Jonathan Bird Productions A few years ago, the DSLR came into fashion as a filmmaking tool for one very simple reason: it was the only way one could get the look of a…
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