SUN-BOUNCER WIND-KILLER MOBILE PRO KIT

Sunbounce Wind-Killer Mobile Pro Kit 130 x 190 cm

The SUN-BOUNCER WIND-KILLER is a wind blocker. It reduces the wind by approximately 75% without allowing a vacuum to develop behind the screen. A camera assistant can follow the Steadicam operator with a mobile WIND-KILLER and provide wind protection for the extremely airstream sensitive Steadicam.

The WIND-KILLER is also an indispensible tool for photo shoots at windy locations. With the WIND-KILLER the photography assistant can make sure that the models’ hairstyles are not ruined by the wind.

The Task

Steadycam Operator is mostly affected by wind. His finely balanced, almost hovering camera is shaken by the tiniest wind turbulence. Up to now, beams and transparent plastic sheets were used by the assistants to protect the cameraman and his steadycam equipment. However, this construction has a disadvantage: The wind blocked off by the sheets got back with strong turbulences at the edges of the sheets and affected the system even more. 

The Solution

After many discussions with steadycam cameramen, the SUNBOUNCE design team found that the 100% wind block of the sheets was the problem. A gentle but constant wind does not affect the gimble-mounted camera. Therefore, SUNBOUNCE used a material that only holds back 75% of the wind.
25% of the wind is let through deliberately but meets the camera gear as a gentle, even breeze, which turns the turbulences occurring at the edges into a constant flow. And because the material is transparent, the assistant can see what he is doing and can communicate better with the cameraman.

Since this special WIND-KILLER material is also used on the normal SUNBOUNCE-CLASSIC-3-D frames, the entire tool is as light as a feather, super stable and features grips everywhere that could not be better positioned for this purpose. The same effect is used in fashion photography where hairstyles and clothes must not get blown by the wind and the clothes must fall in a method the designer wanted.
The WIND-KILLER is a tool not to be missed at any shoot. Film or Fashion shooting.