From November 21 to 29, 2022, the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands will be held in Wuhan, Hubei. This is the first time my country has hosted this international conference. The theme of the conference is "Cherish Wetlands, Harmonious Coexistence between Man and Nature". Wuhan is a city of thousands of lakes and a mega city along the Yangtze River. The Wetland Conference came to Wuhan, which is really appropriate.
Wuhan City, Hubei Province organized a strong team to shoot the themed documentary "City on Wetlands" as the organizer's promotional video, which will be broadcast on October 3.
Ueleret U100 remote camera assistant has just been successfully developed, and in the trial stage, it has become attached to the documentary "City on the Wetland".
In October 2019, the famous wildlife photographer Mr. Feng (Er Ma Bing) and his friend Mr. Liu (Shanjin Big Parrot) came to my place to see the samples of the U100 RCA under development. After watching the product demonstration, Mr. Feng said, "The advantage of this device is that it is highly integrated. I didn't expect you to develop it. This is a blessing for wildlife photographers. The remote control shooting device solves the pain points of wildlife photographers and can easily A little bit, a little bit closer to shooting a good film. This equipment will be very popular with photographers. I will give you a suggestion. The mainstream in the future is video, and it must be done well in meeting the functions of shooting video.
"Mr. Feng personally operated it to test the stability and speed of pan and tilt of the remote camera assistant, and explained many requirements for photography.
After that, I often called Mr. Feng to report the progress of the research and development, and to ask some questions about shooting."
In October 2020, Mr. Feng called and said that Wuhan will host the Global Wetland Conference in October 2021. Wuhan City will shoot a documentary about Wuhan wetlands, which is being prepared. I hope the U100 remote camera assistant can use it. Due to the epidemic, the research and development of remote camera assistant has been delayed, and the product has not yet entered the mass production stage. If you want to use it immediately, you can only get a prototype.
In December, when the documentary project team was formed, Mr. Feng invited me to meet him. The engineer who came with me is responsible for training the operation and use of the equipment. Mr. Feng took me to meet Mr. Zhou, the director of CCTV 9, the photographer Mr. Xiao, etc., and discussed the improvement of the functions of theU100 remote camera assistant.
In January 2021, Mr. Feng sent photos, and the documentary officially started filming.
In the photo, the U100 remote camera assistant is used as the shooting equipment for this film, with a Canon R5/200-400mm lens mounted in the middle
Wuhan has just experienced the abuse of the epidemic, and the domestic epidemic is also one after another. The control of the epidemic in various places is still very strict, and people's travel is often interrupted. Under such circumstances, it takes one year to complete the shooting of a documentary, and also to reflect the reincarnation of the four seasons. It is extremely difficult and the shooting intensity is extremely high.
I keep in touch with Teacher Feng. I asked Mr. Feng for some shooting tidbits and small films. Teacher Feng told me that the project team has regulations, and the filming has strong confidentiality requirements and cannot be sent to you. But I couldn't help to contact many times. Mr. Feng sent some photos of remote camera assistant and photos of mobile phone taking pictures of shooting screens to me finally.
Teacher Feng has high requirements for filming. The U100 remote camera assistant can remote control a camera and a smart pan/tilt gimbal at a distance of 500 meters. There is no one next to the equipment. Birds will adapt quickly and will not be afraid. However, Mr. Feng still disguised the device, which is consistent with the local environment.
Teacher Feng told me that when photographing an alert bird like black stork, the black stork walks 2-3 meters in front of the camera and shoots the eyes of the black stork without the need of photo size cutting. That's what you need for close-up shots. Teacher Feng is very satisfied. In the past, it was impossible to do this by relying on people's handheld camera method.
Mr. Feng is a person with strong self-discipline and abiding by the rules. The photos were sent to me by taking a computer screen and a mobile phone.
I also complied with Teacher Feng's requirement, and I didn't take out these pictures until the documentary was played. None of the company's colleagues have seen it.
"Due to the epidemic, filming was intermittent. The Wetland Conference originally scheduled to be held in October 2021 was also changed and it was determined to be held in November 2022.
The film crew continued to shoot and compile, and finally completed a very good documentary called ""City on the Wetland""."
This is a small clip of Little Grebe walking on the ice taken by Mr. Feng. It was also sent to me by Mr. Feng after taking a picture of the computer screen with his mobile phone. Although it is not very clear, I can't stop laughing when I look at it.
The little grebe is a common bird around us basically living in small ponds that people walk through. Little grebe is very small, the photo shows it so clear and big, you can imagine how close he is to the camera. This is one of the charms of using U100 remote camera assistant.
