leica dl 2 nexto cf

Working tools_ leica dl2 / oqo 01 / nexto cf

The Philharmonie Cologne presented our documentary about Hermann Prey in cinema.
To capture this honour I put our Leica DL 2 left side to the screen on a tripod and used a OQO 01 as the remote pc for timelapse recording. 8 sec. exposure time at an interval of 15 sec. for 70 minutes.
And I was really surprised that the audience had no motion blur through a long time.

Since I use the OQO as a remote control for time-lapse with my Leica DL 2. The photos are directly captured on the OQO. Cause of having only a 20 gig HDD, non-powered firewire port and USB 1.0 this work is a little limited. So I had the idea of an external battery-powered firewire HDD. I found the Nexto CF. It is a really fast 160 gig Imagetank for CF cards (and with an adapter for many more different cards). It has a built-in and an additional external battery, firewire and USB 2.0 port. But nobody could tell me if the Nexto is powering with its battery if I connect it with the non-powered firewire port of my OQO 01. Cause of needing a fast image tank for a photo shooting I bought the Nexto. Now I`m very happy that it works with my OQO via firewire too. And watching photos it looks like the Nexto on my OQO is working faster than the build-in OQO HDD. So if you need a self-powering external HDD with USB and firewire I really can recommend the Nexto.
Here you can find a very good review and test of the Nexto written by Hans-Jürgen Reggel

http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/special-nextocf.html

And here are some photos of our setup and the Nexto CF

I had used the setup for interview sessions of our documentary project “Hermann Prey”. On the DVD Prey – Stille meine Liebe you can see the video versions of interviews with Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann and many more. Talking about Hermann Prey, passion, music and the price for being a star. But additional to the video cameras I had taken the Leica in time lap mode, every 10 seconds a picture. Cause most of the interviews had been indoor I used a relatively long exposure time. So it is possible to see how deeply committed the people in front of our cameras had been. www.hermannprey.com