We curate what you create…

Cinescopophilia is a camera gear publication covering manufacturers, gear makers, trade shows, new releases, and the cool stuff people are doing with cameras old and new. If you make it, film it, then we’ll cover it. And if you want to wear it on set, we have you covered there too.

A little about who runs Cinescopophilia: On social media I am Cinescopophilia as well as Vision Wrangler, and Camera Rigs, but if you meet me G is fine. I have over 31 years behind the camera and some in front of the lens, including 20 years specialising in natural disasters for television news. As well as shooting short form news and client based videos and TVC’s, I have filmed countless long form episodic television shows and documentaries. For seven years I shot a metric tonne of reality TV shows across the Australian outback, and then spent three and half years filming for government, corporate and mining giants. I have shot on all sorts of cameras and used a plethora of gear in some of the most challenging places on this planet. If gear breaks down two days from the nearest retailer it will breakdown, and most importantly you have to know what equipment you bring multiple items of. So I’ve learned a thing or two about what equipment actually works when it matters the most. And I had to learn how to repair damaged equipment out in the field and know how to adapt on your feet when things go pear shaped. No one paying your way wants to hear excuses, they only want results, so if it is live and you only get one shot at it. Well that’s me right there.

On camera I have appeared in two reality TV shows playing the bad guy in both of them. On one series it was planned that I got caught stealing, get chased by a helicopter and get handed a verbal licking, and on the other television show in a place called Murder Creek I stalked two people hoping to steal from them and I gave them hell before being run off. Actually I was filmed for another television show but was left on the editing floor.

In the edit suite I have worked on 3 Olympic Games, 3 Paralympic Games, 3 World Athletics Championships, 5 Tour De France races, 1 FIFA Word Cup. I have also operated a video analysis machine for multiple cricket test matches including an Ashes Series and a stack of One Day International matches.

I have always been keen on the latest and greatest gear and when Twitter rolled around it seemed like a perfect vehicle to tell others I had a camera hire company and connect with others via pushing out gear finds on that platform. But I found that other people would take the news and tweet that as their finds. So Cinescopophilia was born as place to permanently put the new cameras and camera gear news finds that I would discover when researching. Cinescopophilia the website was put together for $54 in the first year, including the domain name and webhosting. Actually the first theme Cinescopophilia used was a free one and unbeknownst turned out to have a hidden black text on a black background advertisement for a cigarette company. Along with Twitter we joined Facebook and a few other social media sites including Pinterest to connect with others who also love fresh camera gear news. So far Cinescopophilia has 6500 posts and would not be here if it wasn’t for the support of the readers.
Over the years I have been a heavy gear accumulator I’m also a keen hat and t-shirt collector whether it be gear maker hats and t-shirts or destination T’s. I have spent years looking for something that sums up the craft that’s consumed my working career. Always been on the hunt fo a nice simple cameraman t-shirt. But in the end I decided to launch my own line, with Best Damn Cameraman as the centrepiece, and I wanted to make it a collection worth remembering with the launch of the f/0.7 edition. Oh, and Camerama’am is my own portmanteau for everyone who wrangles a camera for a living, whatever they put on in the morning.

There will be more added to the existing collection and more releases as I get inspiration.

As always it is an enormous privilege to be giving back via Cinescopophilia and your support helps keep the content coming and the community growing.

Play hard and look good doing it.