My poor 70-200 has been sitting idle, in the box, and hasn’t see the light of day for a while.. I was so close to selling the lens to Steve Bates (CWB) and even though the extra cash would have been nice I really have to thank Steve’s wife for nixing the deal! What seemed like bad luck at the time was in fact just the opposite! Overall the video DSLR bandwagon has been out of control and I was going to wait before jumping on, but all it took was seeing the 5D Mark II footage from last weekend’s shoot, a long phone conversation with Ryan Taylor, an email exchange with Mike Isler, and a lengthy text message conversation with Travis Valtierra. Thanks guys!

Well today is the day… The 70-200 waits no more!

Just wrapped up logging the footage from the Red Bull Butter Cup at Boreal and we got some good stuff!  I want to throw a shout out and thanks to Damon, his brother Dakin, and their trusty side-kick Mad Dog for helping out. We got some really sick footage, so stay tuned as the video will be dropping soon.

Just wrapped up the video for Red Bull’s Schlittentag (German for “Sledding Day”) that went down at Alpine Meadows on Saturday. It was definitely a true test of will for most of the 16 teams that participated and I’m not even talking about the intimidation factor of the 60+ foot start ramp, two huge rollers, and the finish-line drop-off.
The Schlittentag Video...

The following is the video taken by the DPCFilms CableCam v2.1 at the 2007 Spanky Beaver’s Rail Jam in Sacramento, California. This one-of-a-kind wakeboard/wakeskate event took place in an Olympic size pool where all different kind of sliders (wakeboard term for rails) were set up. The event coordinator Al Marchiniak and all the riders were kind enough to let me put my cablecam to the test.
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