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Company:
ZMF Underwater Film Production
Telephone:
01273 566 292
Mobile:
07990 592000
Contact:
Zac Macaulay
Email:
Address
London,
BN1,
UK

About ZMF Underwater Film Production

ZMF is a specialist underwater film and stills production company, based just outside London.

We provide underwater film and stills sequences for commercials, TV, drama and movies alike, shooting on location or in specialised underwater film studios, with full specialist production facilities that are associated with the job. This includes lighting (topside or underwater), specialist safety crew, and boating requirements (rib or hard hull) to suit.

Zac is fully HSE compliant and so is the experienced team he works with and we look forward to speaking with you about your underwater production very soon.


Camera kit - Arri Alexa Mini

We use a Nauticam housing for a Alexa Mini. This supports Alexa's own WCU4, 3 axis lens control system through 30-45m long hard wired cables from surface to camera, and the kit comes with glass flat and dome ports for different focal lengths.

The 3 axis control allows the focus puller to control focus, iris, zoom and to turn the camera over. The WCU4 system allows complete access to the camera menu settings for fast changes underwater.

Picture to surface is through a 30- 45m long HDSDI cable and there is an optional 45m long 24v power cable into the housing allowing batteries to be hot swapped and avoiding the camera powering down.

Lenses up to 120mm diameter can be supported inside the housing which supports a modular ring build on the front end to accurately fit the length of different cinema lenses.

Camera kit - Gates/Red

Alternatively we own and shoot with a Gates Red Epic Dragon or Weapon combination at 6K or 8K with remote follow focus control to surface. Port options are 8 or 10 inch dome port or flat mineral glass ports. All optimised to accommodate cinema and stills lenses. The housing is a Gates Deep Weapon housing which is ultra reliable.


Zac is fully HSE compliant and so is the team he works with and we look forward to speaking with you about your underwater production very soon.

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Products / Services / Credits

  • The RNLI – Life Skills – Short Film (Dir Harrison Bates) – Shot on location. Underwater and Non Underwater DOP & Camera Operator
  • Air Ray – Vortex of Plastic for China Kingway – Art Film – (Dir Dominic Faraway) in association with Zhang Yimou – Studio – The Underwater Studio Unde
  • Daniel Tomkins – Music Video (Dir George Laycock) – Underwater DOP and Camera Operator
  • Mother – Independant Short Film (Dir Nick Sneath) – Underwater DOP and Camera Operator
  • Brassic – Sky 1 Comedy Drama – TV (Dir Jon Wright) – Shot on location Underwater Camera Operator
  • Speedo – International Campaign – Stills (Shot by Tom van Schelven at the Underwater studio) – Underwater technical advisor & underwater 1st assistant
  • Roo Panes – Music Video (Dir Chris Thomas) – Shot on location Underwater Camera Operator
  • You Are Here – New Covent Garden Soups – Ad (Dir Alex Tiernan) – Shot on location Underwater Camera Operator
  • Dark Matter Studios – The Unfamiliar – Feature Film (Dir Henk Pretorius) – Studio – The Underwater Studio – Underwater Camera Operator
  • Belloq Productions – Rueful Warrior – Short film (Dir – Mark Owen) Studio – The Underwater Studio – Underwater DOP & Cameraman
  • Euston Films – Hard Sun – TV Shot on location Underwater cameraman
  • 10 Management – Take That – Wonderland tour – Underwater stills
  • Fit Bit Strictly Come Dancing – Ad – Producer & DOP
  • Disney Channel – Finding Dory – Promo – DOP & Cameraman
  • Littlewood’s with Myleene Klass – Ad – Producer & DOP
  • Pantene Pro V – TV Ad (Dir-Nick Sneath, Camera-Rich Stevenson, Studio-The Underwater Studio) – Underwater DOP
  • Goodmans Food Group (Merlob’s) – Ad – Producer & DOP
  • Little Dippers (Babies Dream) – Corporate Video – Producer & DOP
  • British Heart Foundation (Drowning Man) – Ad – Producer & DOP
  • Sappi Silken – Ad – Producer & DOP
  • British Heart Foundation (How to Build a Human) – Ad – Producer & DOP
  • London Aquarium – Ad – Producer & DOP
  • Diesel Jeans – Ad – Producer & DOP

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