Posted by Hunt on 12/14/06 02:38

In article <4tlohqF14cqfrU1@mid.individual.net>, rcrowley@xp7rt.net says...
>
>"Martin Heffels" wrote ...
>> "Steven J. Weller" wrote:
>>>It's not a long blimp
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, and to better my knowledge of world-wide terms: you
>> really call this a blimp as well? For me, a blimp is the cover, or case,
>> used to make a film-camera silent. Well I could think that the blimp
>> silences the wind, but it just sounds so odd to me :-))
>
>AFAIK, the sound-absorbing/blocking cover for a camera is called
>a "barney"? Google for "sound barney". This was the first hit...
>http://www.customupholsteryproducts.com/html/sound_barneys.html
>(Reference to the old US comic-strip "Barney Google" is coincidental :-)
>
>Although when I Googled for "sound blimp" it returns some hits.
>But a very casual glance looks more like covers for still cameras
>than for cine.
>
>The shotgun microphone windscreens commonly used look like
>miniature "blimps" (zeppelins, dirigibles) to me, at least without
>the "softie"/"dead-cat" fur covers.

In Cine-speak, a "blimp" is a hard case to silence a film camera, and a
"barney" is a soft version. Now, as Cine is "dead," these terms may well have
been usurped to mean different things. For audio/mic work, I'd HAVE called the
device a "wind screen," but that is probably so 80's, as to be useless.

Just an old guy reflecting back on how thing USED to be.

Hunt

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