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FEAT OF ENDURANCE How the PMW-EX3 and PMW-EX1 measured up to covering Chris Moon’s 1,000 mile UK charity challenge


The focal point of the Post Office’s autumn fundraising appeal


in aid of children’s


charity Barnardo’s was a feat of endurance for disabled ultra-distance athlete Chris Moon. Moon, who lost his right arm and leg whilst clearance


supervising mine in Mozambique,


embarked on a 1,000 mile run around the UK taking in as many post offices and Barnardo’s Centres as possible. While Moon’s challenge was to cover an average of 36 miles a day for a month, the task for the camera crew from Funny Guy Films was to turn around a daily five minute video diary of Moon’s run, documenting how he coped with the challenge and the people he met along the way. Producer/director Jason Clarke covered the trip


with the help of two editors, a driver and a EX3 and EX1 camcorder. “The big plus was the quality of the picture we could get for their size,” explains Clarke.


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“We were often following Chris over hills, travelling on minor roads and tracks so size and portability was a big issue.” One of the EX3’s most useful features was the variable speed option, shooting at 720p and 60i, which – Clarke reports – produces a “really good in-camera slow-mo effect.” The file-based cameras shot to cards which could be slotted straight into a MacBook Pro for edit. Clarke found that two 16GB memory cards and two 8GB cards were all that cameraman/editors Neil Barton and Ian Dodds needed, with rushes stored on two 500GB drives for editing plus four 500GB USB2 drives for back up. The only hiccup was uploading the 200MB files daily onto the Post Office website – thanks to the poor internet quality at the hotels they stayed in. “You’d be amazed at how poor some broadband connections can be.”


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