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focus with the 800mm

on

such di¬

things as motorcycles com¬
ing at me at 40 mph and the camera
at 66 fps, or a man in India carrying
a
huge bale of hay straight to the
camera from a quarter mile
away
verse

would be filmed with the 1200mm

lot of experimen¬
run the long
lenses paid off extremely well with
unusual imagery and points of

at

50fps. It took

a

tation but in the end

view
In the

course

of discuss¬

ing aerial footage, we went to the
extreme of considering bringing
with us an Ultralight airplane
which I would pilot with a camera
attached to it. The idea

was com¬

pletely possible, but would have in¬
volved

few

a

months

more

of

planning and arrangements with
the various governments, and mili¬
tary authorities. As a result I de¬
cided to design and build a kind of

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machine on hand. The adapter was
designed on some scrap paper, and
taken to the mine's shop whose

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and the

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An adventure in Cuzco,

Peru, lent its own anxiety to our
odyssey: The smell of gasoline
fumes permeated our cockpit. We
had to climb another 2,000 feet to

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