Models & Effects Equipment

Transparent Oven

Description:

Custom designed & built by Pirate for food cooking shots and other effects shots. It is built to allow easy lighting of an object from several sides whislt it is within the oven. This rig has been used for example on a Roch anti-ageing cream commercial showing the rapid ageing of leaves etc. as a metaphor for the ageing process of human skin. Nice. Internal working dimensions: 400mm x 520mm x 360mm high.
Transparent Oven

Transparent Wet Wall

Description:

A large glass sheet mounted in a vertical frame (xx x xxmm) with a water fall across the top edge. Gives an even wall fall effects across a whole field of view.

Microsecond Trigger Delay Kit

Description:

A kit designed & built by Pirate for to sending an electronic signal to synchronise a camera with a special effect action. For example, it can be used with our air canons to send a trigger signal to our high speed digital video camera to begin recording at the instant that the projectile exits the end of the barrel. Futhermore, the trigger signal can be delayed in very small increments (0.0001 of a second) so that a stills camera flash pack can be triggered to take a shot at precisely the right time after an event. This the kit is a modern replacement for the Mazoff trigger kit and a Dale Beam or Dale Delay Kit, used by stills photographers for years. This kit has been used several times by N K Image (Nick Knight) for his superb ground-breaking images. The signal can be generated by either sound, laser (broken beam sensor) or a light flash.
Microsecond Trigger Delay Kit Image

Typical use of the kit - mounted on an air cannon, so that a suitable delay can be dialled-in between the ball leaving the cannon's nozzle and a flash pack being fired. This allows a photographer to fine tune the point at which an image is taken during a high-speed event. The kit has been used extensively by Nick Knight to great effect. Alternatively, the exit signal can be used to trigger our high speed digital video camera to start recording, thus maximising the memory capacity.
Air Cannon, Horizontal with Sensor

Images to be added: N K Image still shots - massive attack, glass paint balls. Sketch food video

Rain Machine (indoor) No 2

Description:

A custom made indoor rain machine comprising a shallow trough approximately 0.4m x 1.7m, fed by a domestic hose at one end. Very controllable and suited to indoor work, such as mimicking rain water on a car windscreen.
Indoor Rain Machine No2

Sissor Lift (Hydraulic)

Description:

Hydraulic sissor lift with a battery powered remote pump, allowing the equipment to be used in any location. It can lift 500kg through a height of mm on a platform of xmm x ymm. The collapsed height is xmm on a footprint of xmm x ymm.

Air Canon, Vertical

Description:

short barrelled fires projectiles vertically using compressed gas.

Gimbal Platform

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Conveyor Belt

Description:

The belt is approximately 445mm wide with a travel of 2460mm.

Glass Oven - Clear, Transparent Sided

Description:

Custom designed & built by Pirate for food cooking shots. It is built to allow easy lighting. This rig has been used on a Roch commercial showing the rapid ageing of leaves etc as a metaphor for the ageing process of human skin. Nice.