I sometimes work with my friend Lee Martin, lighting gaffer on the recent Four
Lions film, who is an expert on lighting as well as a top video
cameraman when I am in director mode, he and I have worked across the UK
on projects together and had a lot of fun doing so. As well as his range of lighting that supplements
my own lighting rigs he collects a range of older redundant equipment
in his barn in the Yorkshire Dales. I called in to pick up some lighting
supplies, and after a coffee Lee was keen to show me his 1970s audio
mic boom arm from a tv studio that he now has, complete with an
elevating platform for the operator.